Who Is Grigori Rasputin in Record of Ragnarok?
Grigori Rasputin was an infamous Russian mystic associated with the Romanov family; he is a notorious figure in Russian history and was associated with stories that involved dark magic and the occult. He was assassinated, although the story of his death is crazy, as he supposedly died only after being killed several times (poisoned, shot, burned, and drowned). He is also set to appear as a fighter for the Humans in Record of Ragnarok. Since he has yet to be officially introduced in the manga, we know nothing about him and his role in the story, but we will tell you we know.
The rest of this article will focus solely on the character of Grigori Rasputin both in real life and in Record of Ragnarok, as we bring you everything you need to know about him and his actions, at least… everything that is known at this moment. We are going to tell you some information about the history of the character, as well as his role in the whole story. We will also answer a series of relevant questions about Grigori Rasputin, the Mad Monk, as his nickname was.
Who is Grigori Rasputin in Record of Ragnarok?
Record of Ragnarok is an intriguing series that offers a lot for the average viewer. It teaches you a lot about the history of humankind and various mythologies, combining actual facts with an interesting fictional premise. Throughout the duels, as well as behind the scenes, a lot of various personalities have been introduced or, at least, announced. One of the latter is the famous Grigori Rasputin, a person from Russian history who will appear as one of the fighters on the Human side in a future battle.
Although we have not seen him introduced in the series, we know he will appear, so our data on him is limited. But, as Record of Ragnarok mostly sticks to the actual historical events, we are going to bring you Rasputin’s life story so that you can know, at least roughly, what you can expect from him as soon as he appears in the series.
His early life is almost a black hole that we know basically nothing about, and the first reliable sources we have to speak of his religious conversion and his early family. But, the gist of Rasputin’s persona is his role on the Russian Tsars court, which will be the primary focus of this article. As well as the incredible story about his death.
Rasputin gained the royal family’s favor, and a large part of the aristocracy surrendered to him. This was mainly due to his personal charisma. To the extent that his charisma can be explained, his was the product of the following factors: a very fixed, penetrating gaze (he had brown hair but very light blue eyes); an easy and very ambiguous verb (someone said that his sentences never consisted of “subject, verb and predicate”, but always missing some element) that looked like an oracle; a great attraction with women based, in addition to his physique and his intuition, his knowledge of the Scriptures and a certain Russian religious tradition that followed orgiastic practices as a path to God.
Finally, Rasputin’s time was one of pro-Slavic romanticism. He, a Russian from deep Siberia, reproached the nobles, closely related to the European aristocracy (especially the German one): “You don’t have a single drop of Russian blood.” However, he was heavily attacked by those courtiers and nobles who felt threatened in his interests and spread rumors that served as food for the revolutionary enemies of the tsarist regime. The Tsar only tolerated it to the extent that the Tsarina accepted it, although there was no decision of the Tsar that did not go through Rasputin’s supervision.
During World War I he was accused of being a German spy and of politically influencing the tsarina, who was of German descent, in her ministerial appointments when the tsar was away for the war. This fact was disastrous for the permanence of the tsarist regime. Considered a close friend of the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich and his personal “physician,” provided him with a kind of “healing hypnosis” and offered him the reassurance his overprotective mother could not, the future of the Romanov dynasty was at stake and in his hands.
If he did not save the hemophiliac Tsarevich from death, speculation about the heir to the throne was left open. Thanks to those apparently miraculous cures, Tsarina Alejandra blindly trusted the healer since the healing tests that she produced to her son were inexplicable. She also trusted the monk’s predictions about the fate of Holy Russia, which Rasputin saw in her visions “wrapped in a black cloud and immersed in a deep and painful sea of tears.”
Rasputin’s influence over the Tsar and Tsarina was considered disastrous in the government and at court at a time when the situation of the monarchy was already very critical. Prime Minister Alexander Trepov offered him two hundred thousand rubles to He returned to his hometown and failed, at the beginning of 1916, an assassination attempt on the former Minister of the Interior.
Finally, the conspiracy that was successful was that of Prince Felix Yusupov, in which a right-wing leader of the Duma, Vladimir Purishkevich, and two grand dukes, Dmitri Pavlovich and Nicholas Mikhailovich, were also implicated—Rasputin’s frozen corpse after being recovered from the Neva River. Yusupov, Purishkevich, and Grand Duke Dmitri planned to lure Rasputin to Yusupov’s palace under the pretense that he would meet Yusupov’s wife, Grand Duchess Irina Alexandrovna. Thus, despite receiving a prior warning of the danger on December 29, 1916, Rasputin appeared at the palace shortly after midnight.
Yusupov told him to stay there until the Grand Duchess arrived while she attended to her other guests in a room in the basement, where she served him wine and cyanide-poisoned cakes. Exasperated that the cyanide seemed ineffective, Yusupov shot him with a Browning pistol, leaving him dead as he prepared to go out and dispose of the body. However, Rasputin had survived, and Purishkevich, after missing twice, felled him with two more shots, one hitting him in the back and the other, definitely deadly, in the forehead.
The body was then dragged off with iron chains and thrown into the Neva River. He was found on December 31, 1916. Rasputin was buried next to the Tsarskoye Selo Palace in January 1917. After the February Revolution, his body was dug up and burned in the Pargolovo forest, where the ashes were scattered. Recent investigations indicate that it was the British, i.e., their secret services, that had something to do with the attack on Rasputin’s life through an agent named Oswald Rayner, residing in Petrograd at the time, under the command of another agent named John Scale, who directly participated in the assassination.
And this is the story of Grigori Rasputin, also known as the Mad Monk. How he is going to be interpreted in Record of Ragnarok remains a mystery, but we are certain that he is going to be a tough fighter with a lot of diverse skills and abilities, which are surely going to mimic his real-life story.