Grigori Rasputin - Royal Blood - Russian History - Extra History - Part 2

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Rasputin was known to the royal family but how exactly did he manage to get so close to them? There was a lot at work, and the royals were not in the best position. They married for love, but neither was exactly suited for the throne at the time. And their only male heir had hemophilia. How could they refuse this holy man who seemed to work wonders not only for their son but also eased Alexandra's anxiety? Unfortunately, the comfort he brought would be short-lived.
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@extrahistory 3 года назад

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@ichidoriyou7472 3 года назад

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@Mar1aHass4n 3 года назад

@cursedalien 2 года назад

"Better 10 Rasputins than 1 [anxiety attack]" As someone with a severe anxiety disorder, I can confirm. Anything to prevent an anxiety attack.

@SuperHGB Год назад

Other than murder?

@JunkPhuJP 3 года назад

I loved how you pointed out how Empress Alexandra’s anxiety could be reflected by the prince and this could exacerbate his condition. Literally becoming a vicious cycle feeding on itself. Alexei get hurts > Alexandra panics > Alexei panics, causing the hemophilia to become worse > Alexandra panics more!!! > Alexei panics more!!!, ad infinity.

@carolinemcgovern4488 2 года назад

And that's why my pet theory is a mixture of the calming influence Rasputian had on the Empress and that he stopped the doctors giving Alexi aspirin

@JunkPhuJP 2 года назад

@@carolinemcgovern4488 Preach!

@MidasMakeItRain 2 года назад

Don't forget giving the kid ASPIRIN. A BLOOD THINNER.

@Randomgen77 3 года назад

My impression of Rasputin’s effect on the Empress and the boy was that he offered the same benefits that a lot of alternative medicine people offer today: placebo and company. You can get a long way with a patient by convincing them they’ll get better and then basically giving them a therapy session to voice fears and receive sympathy/reassurance. Even if it’s not actually that effective, it “feels” better than a doctor rushing in, focusing the conversation on your illness, then giving you some gross medicine or painful treatments.

@timothycarney9652 3 года назад

As they brought up, Asprin is also a blood thinner, Rasputin preventing accidentally harmful treatments by coincidence is believeable. Frankly I wonder how things would have gone if the royal family found a similar ally who was more politically and socially savy because that sounds like the area where they messed up.

@danielhuneke5862 3 года назад

And (don't forget) saying "this won't hurt a bit"

@Fux704 3 года назад

Healers aren't uncommon in South America, and some cases just defy explanation.

@danielhuneke5862 3 года назад

@@Fux704 I am saddened by the fact that many will roll their eyes at that statement.

@munkeefinkelbeen5395 3 года назад

@@Fux704 I know what you mean. I come from a Reservation in the US

@bentoth9555 3 года назад

"Doctors can only give him aspirin." Yeah, pretty sure a blood thinner is just the thing for a hemophiliac.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

@Steven Universe Exactly!

@insaincaldo 3 года назад

@Steven Universe Perhaps, but how long can you not notice the thing you are doing is making things worse. Someone must have been trying to save face and make excuses, which probably escalated the problem. No wonder Ras could just walk in and solve it.

@crcker3841 2 года назад

@@insaincaldo people were literally bloodletting and youre surprised that the doctors kept giving aspirin

@laurakastrup Год назад

@@insaincaldo how long did people attempt to solve other diseases with even less effective treatments? How long did it take royals to figure out that inbreeding with each other probably led to these problems? About 300 years.

@insaincaldo Год назад

@@laurakastrup So you are excusing the lack of science for years in the past as your argument?

@qjames0077 3 года назад

Romanovs: He must be a holy healer! Rasputin: Yeah...sure *Pockets aspirin*

@Newdivide 3 года назад

oversimplified

@foam3132 3 года назад

This guy knew more about medicine than even the Doctors. How?

@Darasilverdragon 3 года назад

She believed he was a holy healer Who would cure her son

@ethanwall2443 3 года назад

@@Darasilverdragon ra ra Rasputin

@ryanfarrelly4647 3 года назад

@@ethanwall2443 lover of the Russian Queen

@TransSappho 3 года назад

I honestly can’t recommend reading Nicholas II’s journals. He spends the entirety of 1917 talking about the weather instead of the ongoing revolution. He was deeply out of touch

@alessandrodelogu7931 3 года назад

Did he write more interesting things too?

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

That and he was a fatalist. Everything happened because God "willed it."

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

@@alessandrodelogu7931 Mostly he recorded (in brief detail) when certain events happened (when he first met Rasputin, when his kids were born, etc.).

@TransSappho 3 года назад

@@alessandrodelogu7931 If he did I can’t remember and I feel like that on its own says a lot. Granted, I read his journals 7 years ago but even still nothing interesting has stuck in my mind

@alessandrodelogu7931 3 года назад

@@TransSappho An English diplomat said that Nicholas II, with a proper training, could become a good postman.

@gabrielgarcia7554 3 года назад

I love that the Russian newspaper is called “Extra Extra Credit”

@unsettled_jellybean5197 3 года назад

There is also extra crisps

@andrewlai4494 3 года назад

Extra details

@gearf8910 3 года назад

Extra Interesting

@arima272 3 года назад

Ekstra Ekstra Kredity

@gearf8910 3 года назад

@@arima272 Is that the romanised version of the new letter?

@thenerdbeast7375 3 года назад

_For the queen he was no wheeler dealer_ _Though she'd heard the things he'd done_ _She believed he was a holy healer_ _Who would heal her son_

@reaperking2121 3 года назад

Ra ra rasputin lover of the Russian queen Their was a cat that really was gone.

@epauletshark3793 3 года назад

Ra ra Rasputin, ya know his name rhymes with poutine, Canada's gift to humaniteeeeee

@DeWitherWarrior 3 года назад

Where is this from?

@Abebabe413 2 года назад

The song is called Ra ra rasputin

@ConfusionFace 3 года назад

*Better ten Rasputins than one of the Empress's hysterical fits.* Something about the imagery you guys put here really got me laughing.

@sarasmith5476 3 года назад

HAHA FFPT HEHE

@mamc1986 3 года назад

Its true though. The Empress didn't know what to do for her son, except cry and freak the hell out.

@kevin8712 2 года назад

Imagine 10 Rasputins...

@nathanseper8738 2 года назад

@@mamc1986 The smiling Rasputins are funny.

@nathanseper8738 3 года назад

Alexandra's problem wasn't just that she was shy. Like Nicholas, she also believed strongly in the divine right to rule and rejected the notion that monarchs were accountable to their subjects.

@Freekymoho 3 года назад

Not exactly an uncommon sentiment

@DOSFS 3 года назад

Just normal for Monarch at the time, they spend entire of their life in those kinds of environment and influence. It's impossible to remove habits and believes.

@bleh329 3 года назад

Yeah, if they're a member of royalty, especially religious ones, that's typically how it went. Not sure why it's important to try paint this woman as standing out for the reasons.

@rosiehawtrey 3 года назад

By all accounts Alexandra was as bright as two short planks but thought she was a genius. I feel sorry for the girls, by all accounts their IQs were higher than the RAC hp rating on a medium sized Humber.

@sanhcman666 3 года назад

I guess that getting kidnapped and locked in a basement was they needed to learn :V

@kylemackenzie6282 3 года назад

Im one of if not the worst Haemophiliacs in Australia, i can testify to the absolute awfulness of this disability. Fun fact Aspirin is a BLOOD THINNER meaning that one of the worst things you can do is give a haemophiliac Aspirin, so the idea of not giving Alexi Aspirin genuinely could have helped the young Tsarevich. although the sudden and inexplicably ability to be completely fine is sketchy, cause these episodes of bleeding can last weeks. Great video EC very informative.

@Sienna6164 9 месяцев назад

I hope you’re doing well! Love from California ❤❤❤

@joemalo5335 3 года назад

It's almost comforting to know that "what people believe to be true is more important than what is actually true" has been a thing even a century ago

@insaincaldo 3 года назад

It has since the birth of rumor.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

Oh, humanity and its (often rather high) lack of critical thinking skills...

@stephanieaensland6520 3 года назад

Human beings, as a species, make decisions based on emotional "truths" more often than rational or empirical ones. We are a deeply emotional species, which is why rational ideologies fare so poorly as political structures.

@napoleonibonaparte7198 3 года назад

In a palace, you’ll probably find a window scratching of Nicholas ‘+’ Alexandra’s initials (by their ring). A testament to their love.

@sanhcman666 3 года назад

And seeing the outcomes, proves further that love DOES NOT conquers all.

@laughsatchungus1461 3 года назад

The palace was destroyed in ww2 and rebuilt so any inscription made by the couple would be gone :p

@rafaellambertucci5279 3 года назад

Very pog from a man like him

@Mar1aHass4n 3 года назад

@@laughsatchungus1461 “ *a* “ palace

@ecurewitz 3 года назад

and it would be in Russian

@antonincooper346 3 года назад

It's interesting how in Rasputin we see a kind healer, a scandalous freak and so many things that It's a bit hard to describe. But he definitely contributed to the fall of the tsars.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

The issues were already there WELL before the Mad Monk arrived on the scene. He just added fuel to the fire.

@Elizabeththegreatest 3 года назад

Unintentionally, of course!

@Kamina.D.Fierce 3 года назад

Naturally. Though the Tsars were doomed with or without him. When he WAS around, they had someone to point the finger at. At least the press did.

@arjusarauis9901 3 года назад

Still, Romanovs being executed by the revolutionaries is really quite a tragedy. But then their flaws did helped led to their downfall and their executions. Might be interesting to see what happens if they were allowed to live however.

@charliefarmer4365 3 года назад

@@arjusarauis9901 If only King George V Parliament had agreed to save them. I mean, Nicholas and Alexandra weren’t exactly the best people, but the kids at least…

@amdreallyfast 3 года назад

I've only heard "the dark one" version of Resputin. Didn't know about the "peasant turned holy man" version. And with the political context of the time, this is getting interesting.

@krcmaine 3 года назад

I learned it from Drunk History of all places; Jerry O'Connell was Rasputin. The show is better than I ever thought it would be.

@Xerxes2005 3 года назад

Yeah, I'm beginning to wonder if it's the Russian version of the Necklace Affair.

@ecurewitz 3 года назад

well, he had to come from soemwhere

@bertjanspeedfight2 3 года назад

He was banished from his village and went on a pilgrimage. It is believed that in his pilgrimage he joined a sect that was involved with orgies and such. His charisma etc got him into high society and got the women into the same sect and had sex with them as a divine ritual. It was even a rumour back than that he was sleeping with Alexandra.

@Elizabeththegreatest 3 года назад

It IS interesting, isn't it?

@TenyoS 3 года назад

Wow, Rasputin is way more wholesome and positive than I was expecting! 7:17 Oh.

@Elizabeththegreatest 3 года назад

He was a bundle of contradictions, as are we all!

@Lionstar16 3 года назад

The sad thing is that even if Olga, the eldest Romanov daughter, was allowed to inherit the throne instead of Alexey, there was every chance she would have passed on haempohilia to her own potential children. When tests were done on the Romanov family's bones years later, it was confirmed at least one of the sisters (Maria I believe) had the carrier's gene for haempohilia

@bthsr7113 3 года назад

I don't know enough going into this to fairly judge them as monarchs, but seeing your child in pain like that would hurt any caring parent.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

I agree. Any parent with a lick of common sense would be concerned for their child's well-being in a situation like that.

@rikuvakevainen6157 3 года назад

Rasputin's image gets more and more complex. In Tsar family he is like a nice uncle but for other elites he is a demon. I don't know anymore which side is closer the truth or did he have both aspects at the same time?

@alienworm1999 3 года назад

I get the feeling Rasputin was the kind of man who became whatever he needed to be for whoever he was with- someone who kept their true feelings and beliefs under many, many layers of feigned personalities

@jonnunn4196 3 года назад

Turn in this time next week ...

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

My guess? He had both aspects. He sought the Divine, but at the same time he was always on the lookout for earthly enjoyments.

@cdcdrr 3 года назад

I would simply not let him near my children. It's the nice uncle types whose abuses are the easiest to overlook.

@Sorcerers_Apprentice 3 года назад

People tend to be multifaceted. The Tsar was a loving husband and father, but a horrible politician, soldier and autocrat whose incompetence caused death and suffering to his subjects. Rasputin may have been sincerely motivated by a midlife crisis of faith, but also a manipulator who enjoyed the power he got from being on the royal court and took sexual advantage of women.

@CliffCardi 3 года назад

“But when his drinking and lusting and hunger for power became known to more and more people, the demand to do something about this outrageous man grew louder and louder.” -Sun Tzu

@irrelevant_noob 3 года назад

Sun Liz Marcia Maizie Bobby Tzu? :-)

@rennor3498 3 года назад

You have to admit that the story of Rasputin is something you expect to see in a book or movie. Not something that actually took place in real life.

@mrbyzantine0528 3 года назад

Real life is often crazier than fiction.

@peggyliepmann5248 3 года назад

Any movie about this would require the actors occasionally turning to the camera and saying "This is not a joke, that literally happened. I know, bonkers, right?"

@sanhcman666 3 года назад

You would think the upcoming movie "the kings men" would honor historical facts, but fun fact, no.

@Wolfbane192 3 года назад

@@sanhcman666 ...in what world would you reasonably expect a film in the Kingsman franchise to honour historical fact?

@DisorderlyFashion 3 года назад

I can't remember who said it, but I am a fan of the phrase " the difference between fiction and reality is that fiction needs to make sense."

@LiamNI 3 года назад

3:52 - props for actually using the correct Russian characters, unlike many other shows/movies/etc! Extra, extra credits!

@LiamNI 3 года назад

@@NorthonBruce yeah, my Russian Mrs told me it's kinda more about money than education related. I'm still a beginner, even after about 5 years!

@dkupke 3 года назад

Personal OP: Rasputin was just a silver tongued con man who got unbelievably lucky

@Googledeservestodie 3 года назад

He rolled for Charisma, and got a 20 every time

@mibikchellaimibikchellous2238 3 года назад

Constituition 20 as well

@Brandonhayhew Год назад

He was just a lucky man

@jaohonaxa 2 года назад

You can’t help but wonder what Rasputin’s story would have been if the people of Russia had been allowed to know about how he helped with Alexei.

@bigtall25 Год назад

An interesting point, however European monarchy was all about power projection, and knowledge of the heir being a haemophiliac could have really messed with his future right to rule. Imagine a King who can never go into battle or is constantly a cut away from bleeding to death.

@jaohonaxa Год назад

@@bigtall25 I mean I understand why they had to keep it a secret, but if the culture had been different that they could have been allowed to be open about it Rasputin might have gone from "the mad monk" to a miracle worker

@bigtall25 Год назад

@@jaohonaxa Yah it's just unfortunate that Alexandar was a terrible and unlike Tsar to begin with

@MURPHYCHACHO Год назад

I wonder if they might have also looked more sympathetically at Alexandria if it had been public knowledge. It could have potentially softened the image of her as a haughty, aloof, royal and shown her more as a terrified mother latching onto someone she thinks is helping her child. We'll never know.

@MaxRobertoErikson 3 года назад

Rasputin was Alexandra's emotional support pilgrim.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

More like emotional security blanket in the form of a peasant who smelled like a goat, drank many a person under the table, and had untold sex with untold numbers of women YET AT THE SAME TIME stopped Alexei's hemophilic attacks.

@asdafkgmify 3 года назад

Also possibly her "side dude".

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

@@asdafkgmify If Alexandra wanted a lover, she wouldn't stoop that low.

@midnight_rose2337 2 года назад

@@asdafkgmify There’s no evidence that those rumors were anything but rumors.

@pokezette7785 3 года назад

when the doctors give you blood thinning aspirin. But your Hemophilic. over 600 likes, yay. Thanks

@SergioKoolhaas 3 года назад

they didn't have much knowledge as they do today.

@foam3132 3 года назад

But Rasputin knew

@annoyingmissingtexture2431 3 года назад

Hey you got a disease that can make you bleed uncontrollably when you get a cut so we will just give you aspirin which will thin your blood and can kill you just because we don’t know how the medicine worked. So we decided to just give it if someone has a issue.

@dr.nosborn6330 3 года назад

Maybe that pill is worsening the child? -Probably Rasputin

@lawaern3474 3 года назад

When you've never healed someone hemophilic. 'Uh... maybe... I don't know... Let's try, not doing whatever we're doing.'

@TheVojvoda 9 месяцев назад

Alexei's hemophilia always breaks my heart. A child that small just wont stop bleeding.

@oldasyouromens 3 года назад

So literally this entire Rasputin problem would have been fixed if Nicholas had gotten Alexandra and Alexei an emotional support kitten and doctors who could give him any medicine aside from aspirin.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

Alexei already had a pet (a little Spaniel named Joy).

@oldasyouromens 3 года назад

@@M.E.ANDHistory Queen Victoria's entire family were truly Spaniel-obsessed, and that's always been really cool to me. But a cat might have actually been able to help with bone healing specifically - they use them as post-operative nurses at veterinarians, with a few days reduction in recovery time.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

@@oldasyouromens I didn't know that! I always thought that cats AND dogs were equally effective with regards to animal therapy.

@oldasyouromens 3 года назад

@@M.E.ANDHistory cats purring has been shown to ease inflammation and help heal bones, in animals and humans. Dogs can help with anxiety, blood pressure, and other things, but the purring specifically is the difference. Grad students at a few universities have done stuff on it, it's findable, but anecdotally as someone with a lot of joint and organ swelling, my ESA will essentially camp out wherever it hurts most and purr his lil heart out, and it's distracting enough to take it down by maybe 25%.

@vinayakohri1293 3 года назад

i really like how the basic format of the videos is has remained unchanged while the quality of the frames individually has improved dramatically over the last couple of years

@awald5 3 года назад

Man, I bet there's a dude chilling in Germany at this point who would be *very* interested in weakness in the royal family. Edit: I meant Lenin, forgot he didn't spend his exile there, they just sent him back, which I'm sure won't come back to bite them later.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

You mean Cousin Willie?

@muksimulmaad7413 3 года назад

@@M.E.ANDHistory *Lenin*

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

@@muksimulmaad7413 Oh. HIIIIIIIIM. *sigh* Communism = giant ball of sad. ☹️

@edmund8704 3 года назад

German soldier smashes through a wall "WHO WANTS TO START A REVOLUTION?!"

@charaka1030 3 года назад

I thought it was Switzerland

@joinmarch76 3 года назад

You know, I'm pleasantly surprised by Rasputin in this series. Don't get me wrong, he was not blameless, nor an angel (I mean, he WAS a rapey nutboy), but at the very least, he was a fairly decent nutboy. Less an evil mastermind and more a somewhat crazy uncle that was made a monster by those who didn't like him. A shame since in almost any other time, Rasputin likely wouldn't have been as vilified and might even had been seen as a hero of sorts.

@Elizabeththegreatest 3 года назад

Definitely not as bad as he was made out to be!

@Elizabeththegreatest 3 года назад

And CERTAINLY nowhere near as evil as the Don Bluth version of "Anastasia" made him!

@SCP--fj2jr 3 года назад

@@Elizabeththegreatest *My, that Rasputin was gross. Don't know if he could ever be called a Rasputin anymore* :P

@bill1234532 3 года назад

uhh.. he wasn't as evil as the worst portrayals... few historicals truly represent their worst. But this was not a nice dude, preying on the emotionally feeble, raping followers, manipulating his supporters, and abandoning those he no longer needed. If he wasn't a psychopath, he was at the very least a sociopath, and in a very great sense, he was responsible for the downfall of the House of Romanov when it helped push the nuclear royal family away from the other branches in 1916 and 1917. Although the blame for that must also be shared by the Tsar, Alexandra and their cadre of invalid ministers.

@ladymacbethofmtensk896 3 года назад

He was a drunk in charge of an enormous khui.

@jakkakasunset5485 3 года назад

This certain man who lived in Russia long ago seems to be big and strong, and in his eyes flaming glow

@АртурЧугай 3 года назад

Looks like most people looked at him with terror and with fear.

@historylovingvileplume895 3 года назад

But Moscow chicks thought he was a lovely dear.

@king_pigeon 3 года назад

@@Rustikreign He was full of ecstacy and fire

@beemillo4741 3 года назад

@@king_pigeon But he also was the kind of teacher Woman would desire

@juliusfetingis3083 3 года назад

@@beemillo4741 Ra ra Rasputin

@shawnheatherly 3 года назад

Yeah, getting the kid to stop taking blood-thinning medicine probably helped.

@BLINDrOBOTFILMS 3 года назад

I cringed as soon as he mentioned giving asprin to a hemophiliac.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

How were they supposed to know that it was a blood-thinner at the time?

@carolinemcgovern4488 2 года назад

And calming his obviously stressed mother who's panic probably made things worse helped/

@devingunnels3251 3 года назад

The opening of this episode just breaks my heart. That poor kid.

@borofreak 3 года назад

3:53 Extra Extra Credits. Well played.

@charlesdeleo4608 3 года назад

“His name was Rasputin. We thought he was a holy man, but he was a fraud; power mad and dangerous…”

@Elizabeththegreatest 3 года назад

Well, Maria Fedorovna was not a big fan of Rasputin, so she would say something like that!

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

"My unhappy daughter-in-law does not understand that she is destroying the dynasty and herself. She truly believes in the saintliness of this rogue and we are powerless to stave of this disaster." -- Maria Fedorovna

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

@@Elizabeththegreatest She wasn't a big fan of Alexandra either.

@BaronVonMott 2 года назад

"...And barricaded himself in his monastery in a months-long police standoff." Damn, Illedore really was the original modern conspiracy theorist 😂😂😂

@GabyGibson 3 года назад

If you've ever read their love letters, Nicholas and Alexandra were deeply in love with one another.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

💕 Yes, quite a love match, they were! 💕

@GabyGibson 3 года назад

@@M.E.ANDHistory Uh-huh.

@christopherphillippe5222 3 года назад

I guess u could say they were head over heels for eachother

@Elizabeththegreatest 3 года назад

Yeah, they really were!

@irrelevant_noob 3 года назад

@@GabyGibson didn't they said so themselves, at 1:34?

@Thescott16 3 года назад

3:42 "Russia lost a war to Japan" You guys need to do a segment on that, and _PLEASE_ dedicate an entire episode to the many fails that make up the amazing comedy of errors that was the Baltic Fleet...

@TheBlackhoof 3 года назад

They sailed their whole western fleet around Europe, around South Africa, through the Pacific, just to get wiped tf out by the Japanese XD Funniest thing

@SkittytheKid 3 года назад

the doctors were giving Alexei aspirin( a blood thinner) Me, a hemophiliac: oh no! ah Tsar Nicholas, great family man but terrible ruler

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

Majored in family, minored in politics.

@Polonthi 3 года назад

Give Aspirin to an haemophiliac... great idea 👌 Lucky we know better today.

@Klishar122 3 года назад

It’s worth remembering that all these issues that we’ve codified in the last couple of decades did actually exist for in previous centuries. Even monarchs had them. What didn’t help were the socio-political issues that made it really difficult to be a monarch at the time.

@TheCreator1197 3 года назад

I have a soft spot for historical in-love power couples, and piling on the Empress' anxiety issues - damn, you just made her so relatable!

@sharp52092 3 года назад

IMO along with removing the unpopular Rasputin, Nikolas II should have reversed the law that barred women from ruling. At least make it male primogeniture, where sons came first then daughters. I mean they used to permit women to rule, ex: Empress Elizabeth and course Catherine II (the Great). The only reason that law existed was due to Catherine's son, Paul I being angry at his mother. If Nikolas had removed that law, they would not been nearly as concerned about losing their only son/heir and still had 4 daughters in line. This might have saved the monarchy and the Romanovs.

@bthsr7113 3 года назад

Emphasis on MIGHT. There were far bigger problems than that. The decline of the state was something the reigning monarch needed to course correct ASAP, not leave to children who'd never live to see a coronation.

@math3000 2 года назад

Well, there's also people who wouldn't like to have a woman rule Russia

@abcdef27669 3 года назад

Rasputin could helped more his village, with all that fame he amounted. So bad his negative traits were so strong to be ignored. Just imagine that poor location becoming a vibrant holy tourism point.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

Unfortunately, Rasputin had a REALLY bad habit of boasting to people about anything. This habit only discredited the Romanovs and made their situation worsen.

@Captain_Pine_oo 3 года назад

I'm happy that extra history went back to this art style, it's always been my favorite and I think it's super cool

@insaincaldo 3 года назад

Have you been somewhere else and been confused, or thinking a clearly mentioned guest was going to be permanent?

@Mr_M_History 3 года назад

"Extra credits will do fine" as I wave my hand at a student who says Rasputin is that song from Just Dance

@frakspikes2619 3 года назад

the ten rasputins part, made me think of 10 russians going "hey", in a "jovial way", at once

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

🤣

@irrelevant_noob 3 года назад

... or in succession. 🎶 ;-)

@frakspikes2619 3 года назад

@@irrelevant_noob if in succession then Moscow starts playing in my head

@alessandrodelogu7931 3 года назад

This story shows how dangerous autocracy is. When a single ruler is granted all power his personal issues become national problems, with dramatic consequences for all the country, especially if he's incompetent. Nicholas II was a good man, husband and father, but deeply insecure, just like Louis XVI. The qualities that made these two kings good men made them also unfit for ruling in their turbulent times. It seems that good people are rarely fit to rule.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

Why do you think we always say that in order to understand the Russian Revolution, we first have to understand the French Revolution? SOOOOO many similarities they had, these two events...

@Merennulli 3 года назад

I'm so glad you're giving a clearer story of this. I usually only hear of him being a drunken, debaucherous monster with references to what sorcery people thought he did, with no mention of his religious fervor and the historical context of the stranger things he did. But strangely while vilifying him in the tradition of loosely-historical storytelling that passed for "history class" there's never mention of this rape accusation by one of his former followers.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

That's because our history teachers don't have time to discuss details; they want to move along with their lesson plans as quickly as possible.

@bthsr7113 3 года назад

@@M.E.ANDHistory Which can be somewhat blamed on requirements from above their heads.

@Merennulli 3 года назад

@@M.E.ANDHistory Part of it is the time crunch, but frankly, a lot of it is the curriculum. Those drafting the curriculum set the schedule and what must be taught when...including things that are complete BS. The best teachers will work around the curriculum and teach more accurate history, but a lot don't. It also doesn't help that a lot of it is pass-through errors. The subset of teachers who are involved in setting curriculum were themselves taught wrong and pass it along generationally. That's why things like Washington Irving's fanfic about Columbus were taught for generations.

@GabrielNicho 2 года назад

Because the accusation isn't credible. That woman was mentally ill...and there are tons of women on record that Rasputin hit on that asked him to stop....and he stopped.

@qwertykeyboard5901 3 года назад

"This kid's blood doesnt clot!" "Give them blood thinner." "How stupid are you?"

@ayazamikanz5299 3 года назад

I swear to god the massive open-mouthed smiles caught me so off-guard I couldn't help but cry out in laughter

@ebonyblack4563 3 года назад

Anybody else get Autistic vibes from this description of Alexandria? I mean her reactions are completely relatable, but I'm also divergent myself... This level of anxiety, with awkwardness in public, and fits that could have been meltdowns all match with experiences I've had yet had no way to explain to others till far into my adulthood. That potential makes me think the mad monk's manner may have calmed her by simply being easier to read than most other people. His apparent frankness and bold nature could easily be a comfort for somebody otherwise constantly forced to watch for signs of betrayal or lose of confidence. Bluntness can be abrasive for many people, shocking even, but if you struggle to understand others when interacting having somebody wear their motives openly (or seem to) can be incredibly drawing. It makes the thought he too may have been manipulating her only sadder; yet, at the same time makes me give him more of the benefit of the doubt now that I know more about their dynamic.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

In some ways, yes. I'm getting some autistic vibes here as well (and these words are coming from an Aspie with a strong fixation on all things Romanov).

@bthsr7113 3 года назад

@@M.E.ANDHistory At minimum she had asocial tendencies and high stress. Not at all a healthy combination for even a minor court noble, let alone a queen.

@Annihilation_Studios 10 месяцев назад

I'm autistic too and I think she was just anti social

@kotyrollins 3 года назад

I've heard this story many times but never once have I heard of Alexandra's anxiety and social issues or the problems that surrounded them. Everyone always frames them as evil when it really just seems like they were a product of their circumstances.

@nelleneulmer5385 3 года назад

I feel so bad for the Romanov family. They were cursed with such bad luck that they didn’t deserve.

@fireironthesecond2909 3 года назад

The Romanovs were a bit evil but Nicholas II was the best of the worse

@CABRALFAN27 Год назад

They didn't really deserve to rule Russia, either, tbf.

@jeremy1860 3 года назад

This has probably been the most sympathetic description of the Russian royal family I've ever heard. Most I've heard from just talk about their "ineptness" during the WW1 period and their subsequent deaths at the hands of revolutionaries 😟

@ShadowVincent3 3 года назад

Most talks about them, especially regarding the revolution, is mainly about them as political figures, and how poorly things were managed. As such, it's easy to forget they were actual humans with personalities and flaws, and while they made many many mistakes, they still had their own personal problems and worries.

@davidwilliam9681 3 года назад

They lost a war to Japan? Kind of a big thing to gloss over, hope we get more in the Lies episode.

@Nostripe361 3 года назад

forget lies. The Russo-Japanese war needs its own series. The war that really shattered the invincibility of European armies in Asia

@AlexaRobin21 3 года назад

The Japanese Navy defeated a Russian Navy twice its size. Japan then took a chunk of Russia's island.Island. Fun fact, the war the where the quote "don't compare me to Yi Sun-Sin" came from.

@jonnunn4196 3 года назад

Indeed - we get the "What the country needs is a short, victorious war" quote ascribed to Nicolas II immediately before (to decrease public unrest). They got the short part, but it was anything but victorious. It also helped set the stage for the overthrow during WW1.

@jamesruth100 3 года назад

Yeah, it was the Russo-Japanese War of 1904. The short version is that Russia and Japan both wanted access to the Manchuria region of China. Russia leased it from China to use as a warm water port (since the only other ports Russia had were Siberian ports) and Japan wanted to expand their empire. Japan crushed Russia in an absolutely decisive victory, marking the first time that a modern Asian power had defeated a modern European power. The whole thing was super embarrassing for Russia and when people began to revolt the Tsar had to cede power in order to stave off full scale revolution. They probably glossed over it because even though it's a pretty important detail for Russia, it doesn't really intersect much with Rasputin's story.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

Tsushima was a MAJOR defeat for Russia. And it occurred on my birthday... 😠😢

@Googledeservestodie 3 года назад

It's a shame the series is focused on Rasputin and not the Romanovs, I think that the reign of Nicholas is a lot more interesting- blunder after blunder from the Russo Japanese war to World War 1 to economic depression and starvation, and all it did was strengthen his denialism that would eventually lead to Russians taking matters into their own hands.

@cyrus6550 10 месяцев назад

One thing I love about this channel is how they humanize those who are often dehumanized simply due to their class, status, or historical myths. It shines light on how even the great men of history are only human, just like the rest of us.

@Edmonton-of2ec 3 года назад

I feel like Nicholas and Alexandra deserve somewhat less criticism for Rasputin. If your child is constantly on the verge of or constantly at risk of death, and only one thing, one person seems to aid him… what other choice to you have?

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

Royalty has ALWAYS been (and, very likely, always WILL BE) a messy business. Inbreeding, succession issues, nutty politics, etc... But that's what makes it fun to study!

@JohnDamascus 3 года назад

The Orthodox make the sign of the cross right to left. Not left to right.

@insaincaldo 3 года назад

For giver, or receiver of blessing? Because it is right to left for the boy.

@irrelevant_noob 3 года назад

and also it's depicted in a RTL manner as if the spectator would perform the move as well. :-B

@danieljhalab6775 3 года назад

4:49 I know this is extremely nitpicky, but he would make the sign of the cross from right to left not left to right

@TheFuriousBrother 3 года назад

Please explain more, I only know it left to right.

@insaincaldo 3 года назад

For giver, or receiver of blessing?

@reinardish 3 года назад

Orthodox cross

@danieljhalab6775 3 года назад

@@TheFuriousBrother orthodox Christian thing

@danieljhalab6775 3 года назад

@@insaincaldo for both it's just a thing the orthodox do

@bookdragon9987 3 года назад

I’m loving these episodes so much and also learning a lot

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

Although I know quite a bit about Romanov history, it's always fun to review and update my knowledge of this subject.

@martinmarvinii3139 3 года назад

It’s a little odd just how human Nikola’s and his family can really be seen as, a little reminder that history is still human

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

And that humans (ourselves included) are all flawed in one way or another.

@ianmckenzie6715 3 года назад

And then those wonderful humans we all shot and stabbed to death by communists along with extended family, the family doctor, and their pets.

@suursuits7637 3 года назад

Been watching these videos for years now, absolutely fantastic work! You should do some videos on Estonian history.

@ImperatorZor 2 года назад

Victoria in the afterlife: I bloody well told ya!

@SirHenryMaximo 3 года назад

Prescribing aspirin to a haemophiliac is like prescribing sugar to a diabetic.

@b1laxson 3 года назад

I wonder when Rasputin meets Bartok the bat.

@weldonwin 3 года назад

Shortly before he uses satanic magic to stir up the ENTIRE Russian Revolution in two weeks

@b1laxson 3 года назад

Here's hoping Bartok gets a moment animated, maybe holding the vial. Even better if he's doing his dance

@Elizabeththegreatest 3 года назад

Poor kid! Hemophilia is no joke, even today!

@CC-wv1ny 3 года назад

That is a lot of red flags

@ArkadiBolschek 3 года назад

If you think _that_ is a lot of red flags, wait till we get to 1917... 😉

@kasyfulwarith5983 3 года назад

Oh Russia, what a history.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

Yes, indeed. One of the reasons why I have a mixed relationship with the country.

@EllpaFox47 Год назад

One person I follow does a lot of roleplaying as tsar Nicholas II and other historical figures And semi-in character complained about spraining his finger And here’s a beautiful quote from the conversation “All Rasputin does is mumble things _other complaints about the pain_ and leer at my wife” Top Tier Comedy

@hylacinerea970 3 года назад

i have mild hemophilia and i’ve literally never ever had aspirin lmao

@sceligator 3 года назад

Have you been treated by a Siberian mystic?

@bungalo50 3 года назад

I wish more people would talk about Iliodor because if you think Rasputin was the mad monk, boy does this guy take it to another level

@Name-ow7cc 3 года назад

This is the earliest ive ever watched a video

@thebigdrew12 3 года назад

Same.

@VanOri 3 года назад

When you look at social media these days... nothing much changed^^

@jokuvaan5175 3 года назад

Holes in factual knowledge will get filled by people's imagination

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

Too true!

@rockCity777 3 года назад

Can just look at recent history... Superstitiousness and lack of judgement are pretty universal characteristics among the people who pursue the incredibly high stakes of power-politics. To name a few examples, a South-Korean prime-minister was impeached in 2018, for holding political strategy-meetings with a daughter of a cult-leader, and during the Trump-administration a leaked video featured audio of the 45th President being briefed on the various way that the name "Trump" was good and powerful in hebrew numerology. (During an official white-house dinner)

@jeanbonnefoy1377 3 года назад

Loved the "Extra Extra Credit" Russian newspaper 👌👍😊

@asnailitsapple6460 6 месяцев назад

I like the idea that Resputin was basically Alexandria’s “emotional support mystic”

@ZKP314 3 года назад

Alexei: *Appears* TNO Fans: Where Sergei?

@lizbizwiz1238 2 года назад

1:58 If I remember correctly, there were 8 attempts on Victoria’s life throughout her reign as queen. During one of those attempts. Victoria’s husband, Albert, saved her from an assassin’s bullets.

@pendragonxt3674 Год назад

But Why though? I get the Jacobites wanted the Stuart reign to continue but still.

@TheVojvoda 9 месяцев назад

The story of the last royal family of Russia always breaks my heart. A little baby boy who wont stop bleeding, scandal, and then execution for the whole group, kids and all. Heartbreaking.

@AfaqueAhmed_ 3 года назад

So I finally found out how extra credits is written in Russian .

@TheRenownedRat Год назад

For all of his drinking and other habits, Rasputin is a pretty good dude.

@neonbunnies9596 3 года назад

Sometimes, I wonder how many non-famous Rasputins there have been

@RamdomView 3 года назад

0:40 So the Imperial Family's doctors prescibed an anti-coagulant to someone whose problem is lack of ability to coagulate?!

@rosiehawtrey 3 года назад

Welcome to the NHS

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

They had no idea that aspirin was a blood-thinner!

@jonnunn4196 3 года назад

Yup - Aspirin wasn't shown to be an anti-coagulant until the 1950s.

@bthsr7113 3 года назад

Science marches on, and giving the boy painkillers would make sense if you were unaware of side effects. Lots of stupid things were done in the past with good intentions. Then we learned, and now we try to do better. 10 gets you 50 that our descendants will eventually look back on what we did with mystified, "but why?"'s.

@mehiamawesome0609 3 года назад

"Royal Blood" I see what you did there

@gwenward2141 3 года назад

I just want to remind you that one of those "red flags" around the Czar was at his coronation, where there was a mass stampede that killed a LOT of peasants. Because there weren't enough refreshments.

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

They THOUGHT there weren't enough goodies. Historians don't know if that was actually the case.

@qwellen7521 3 года назад

Huh.. never thought I’d feel bad for the Russian royal family. Tsar Nicholas still is not off the hook for his role in WWI tho.

@fandemusique4693 3 года назад

Nicholas was a jackass. But his family was innocent.

@AlexaRobin21 3 года назад

WWI is not even the worst of his problems.

@jonnunn4196 3 года назад

There's several people that are much more directly responsible for WW1. One of the very early series done on EC was in fact precursor to WW1, which is well worth a watch if you haven't already seen it.

@loraz6612 3 года назад

What his role in WW1

@fandemusique4693 3 года назад

@@loraz6612 well, he lead the russian army, and as such became scapegoat of the failures on the front.

@Crackdalf 3 года назад

Iliodor's meltdown sounds like it could be its own video

@scarletletter4900 3 года назад

If I had to guess, Rasputin was effective because of a combination of these things mentioned in the video.

@bthsr7113 3 года назад

Yeah, none of them seemed that mutually exclusive.

@Newdivide 3 года назад

0:29 or in layman's terms, mama mia! That's a lot of blood! -oversimplified

@Mobius08 3 года назад

At 1:47, why does Queen Victoria's initial marker say "E" instead of "V?"

@blisteringnash4965 3 года назад

E for England

@irrelevant_noob 3 года назад

@@blisteringnash4965 that doesn't really make sense, does ANYBODY else, ever in any EC video, use their country's initials instead of their name's? o.O

@masberrycreek782 3 года назад

@Extra Credits please please make a series about the English Civil War. Seeing an animated King Charles I dashingly standing over a hill watching his men fight would be so so cool

@YPYT90 3 года назад

Russia's greatest love machine -History

@rachelfamily8279 3 года назад

Me: likes video - Exactly 200 likes - Me: happiness noise

@rachelfamily8279 3 года назад

I just realized that it was the 200th like on a video with 103 views.

@cosmicsanders4319 3 года назад

i used to feel pretty bad for rasputin, getting murdered for essentially just chilling with the royal family, after 7:16 i feel significantly less bad

@KA-tu2em 3 года назад

Can we see more zoey or have a cat history episode where patrons can submit their cats to be illustrated?

@M.E.ANDHistory 3 года назад

You know, cats have an important place in Russian history. Type in Hermitage Cats to learn more.

@Hawkatana 3 года назад

A certain German collaborator has made me unable to think about Alexei without thinking of clocks. *Verify your clock*

@ladymacbethofmtensk896 3 года назад

According to the 1919 book about Rasputin, The Minister of Evil by William deQueux, Rasputin was brought in contact with the Tsarina when she was praying at a shrine in Kazan. I have a physical copy of the book in my possession, which I learned of from one of those ads that were listed in the backs of books back then. And since I could just cross the Square to order a copy, I did.