The legend is widely known that the friend of the family of Nicholas II Grigory Rasputin had a vicious connection with the wife of the monarch. We figure out if this is really so.

These rumors will excite the minds in Russia and abroad for more than a century. The mysterious personality of an illiterate man, who won the trust of the first family of the Empire and the country brutally killed in the house of the first rich man, is extremely interesting in itself. However, the story of the relationship between Grigory Rasputin with the last Russian empress was a completely separate line. Dozens are written about her booksA lot has been shot films, and in public consciousness, the truth has long mixed up with fiction.

In the famous Rasputin song Boney M, there is even a line of Lover of the Russian Queen (“Lover of the Russian Queen”). It is this “status” that is primarily known to Rasputin in the West:

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I must say that Rasputin would hardly have appeared in a royal family, if not for the incurable disease of Tsarevich Alexei, hemophilia. When medicine is powerless, a person grabs any straw. And such a straw became the visits of the “holy fool”, as the elder Gregory was called then in St. Petersburg. It is not known for reliably whether Rasputin helped Tsarevich his gift or, like They wrote Some, mixed drugs into food, but the pain began to bother the boy less often. And this quickly made an eccentric man a friend of the imperial family and, first of all, Alexandra Fedorovna. Interestingly, the old man was 36 years old at the time of acquaintance, and 37 to Nikolai.

The rumors that Alexander Fedorovna is cheating on her husband and Rasputin were widespread mainly after the start of the war with Germany, when dissatisfaction with the authorities from the nobility intensified and extremely made an active German in public affairs.

It is reliably known about the trial of the 31-year-old Kazan Stolyar, who in the fall of 1914 called the Empress a girl of light behavior. The surname Rasputin in those years was deciphered as "Alexander Romanova, with his behavior, destroyed the throne of Emperor Nicholas." During the war in the cinemas, they even banned the demonstration of the film in which the king had the St. George Cross, because in the dark the voice was invariably heard: "King-father with Yegoria, and the queen-mother with Gregory." The famous poetess Zinaida Hippius wrote in her “Diary”: “Grisha himself rules, drinks, and maids of honor ... t. And Fedorovna, out of habit. " The prominent Foreign official A. N. Mandelstam claimed that he had “reliable” information about the connection of the empress with the elder.

In 1917, rumors readily picked up officers and sailors who spoke about the adventures of Alexandra in the arms of not only the famous healer, but also ordinary military. To this, old rumors about the popularity of Rasputin among aristocrats were added to this.

After the February Revolution, the Provisional Government conducted a special investigation. "It turned outThat Rasputin's amorous adventures do not go beyond night orgies with girls of light behavior and chanson -noted singers, as well as sometimes with some of his petitioners. As for the proximity to the ladies of high society, in this regard, no positive observation materials were obtained and the investigation was obtained, ”wrote a participant in the investigation, prosecutor Vladimir Rudnev.

And the poet Alexander Blok, after a personal conversation with Rudnev, wrote in his diary: “Neither with the Empress, nor with Vyrubova (girlfriend of Alexandra Fedorovna. - Approx." Checked ") He did not live."

Thus, not a single evidence or reliable evidence of the love affair of Alexandra Fedorovna and Rasputin. Moreover, they practically did not have the opportunity to be alone.