It was even widely rumored that the Tsarina was his lover. During drunken orgies Rasputin was heard to boast of his exploits with the Tsarina and her daughters. Rasputin’s influence on the government was such that by 1911 he was able to have friends appointed to high places in the government. His influence was resented by the royal class and his patronage by the Tsar was seen as evidence that Nicolas was too weak to be Tsar and that his wife was an adulterer.
One fateful night in 1916 a group of aristocrats led by Prince Felix the Younger lured Rasputin to the Yusupov Palace under the promise that he was to meet Felix’s wife, Irina, one of the most beautiful women in Russia.
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