Grigori Rasputin - An Infamous Murder - A Historian Reacts #4

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[@annieblancken8201]

I know this is awful, but I couldn’t stop thinking of the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail when the sick guy says “I’m not dead yet!” 🤣🤣🤣

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I feel happy! I feel happy! I think I’ll go for a walk

[@annieblancken8201]

@@VloggingThroughHistory hahahaha exactly!

[@YardenAkin]

Tis just a scratch!

[@faeembrugh]

@@VloggingThroughHistory You're not fooling anyone, you know.

[@somebodyontheinternet5338]

@@faeembrugh what do you mean?

[@eRev21]

Not saying Nicholas II didn't make mistakes, but explaining the royal family's actions towards Rasputin with this additional context humanized them to me in a way that other historical sources haven't necessarily done... making their ultimate fate even more saddening. To me personally, it seems like many people, including myself, can easily write off many historical figures' actions as bizarre or unfounded without this type of analysis. Thanks so much for this insight, really liked the series.

[@David-fm6go]

4:51 1. Don't go to war 2. Don't take command at the front 3. Delay the draft until after the harvest 4. Take one day a week to allow supply trains to the cities instead of military supply and troop trains on those days. All good advice from Rasputin, all ignored.

[@tintim85]

Some thing that gets over looked about the Black Hand ( the group that killed the archduke ) is that years earlier they killed the king of Serbia and his wife to put a more friendly king on the throne. So the idea that at least the King knew about or helped the plot isn’t that hard to imagine.

[@murmor6890]

Also Serbia having a panslavic agenda and Franz Ferdinand being the (compareably) most pro slavic voice in the empire potentially undermining that. Although Franz Ferdinand would probably have focused on the west slaves (one of the biggest powers in the monarchy and "deserving" more influence) not the south slaves (more the frontier).

[@peterepeatepete2845]

To me this is one of the most frustrating examples of how we will never know the whole truth. In one extreme he could have literally been an evil devil worshiping molester and sadist. On the other he could be more like the kind but eccentric Uncle and devout believer of the power of prayer. The truth is almost certainly somewhere in the middle, but from what I have seen he seems like a deeply flawed human who got too caught up in his own “power” but genuinely wanted to do good for people and stop suffering. If nothing else, he was absolutely someone who grew up poor and never forgot that, and tried to use his influence for the benefit of other people like him, in a time and place filled with rich royalty who had no idea what it was like to be poor. For my money, that alone makes me think he couldn’t have been nearly as bad as he was made out to be.

[@anderskorsback4104]

Devil worshiper is stretching things. Quite possibly a sociopathic, self-serving, opportunistic scammer though. I agree with you though, Rasputin's attempts to use his influence for the good of the common people was probably genuine.

[@Kriegter]

If we are to believe that Yusupov's account is true, it probably isn't as unbelievable as he makes it out to be. Rasputin surviving so many gunshots as if he was a bullet sponge might make him seem supernatural, but again there are modern day accounts in battle where people are shot 30 times but still move around as if nothing has happened, because of how the body tries to adapt to the situation with adrenaline. Another alternative is that when they shot Rasputin, it was likely that the bullet simply missed any vital organs and he merely went unconscious from the blood loss. It's not as demonic or ghostly as the guy puts it to be, Rasputin might simply had survived a gunshot like many people do.

[@jojo-xk8ri]

yeah exactly

[@alotofteeth8738]

On toxicology we've been told that sugar is a temporary cyanide inhibitor or even an antidote, thus Rasputin would've probably died of poisoning after 3-4 hours since the amount of poison was considerable, but laced into sweet deserts and tea.

[@joshuawells835]

When the people at Extra Credits said that the real history is more fascinating than the myths and legends, they were referring to Rasputin's death. Growing up, you hear the tale that Rasputin was poisoned, shot, hanged, and then ultimately put in a bag and thrown into a frozen lake to be drowned. Now, you learn there was likely never any poison.

[@MrDuckworth15]

This was such an interesting series. I learned a lot about Rasputin.

[@stevenkendall3092]

There's a specific reason why Nicholas II was only 0.7% Russian and the remainder German/Danish. Due to the intro of Pauline Laws for the House of Romanov by Paul I, marriages for succession had to be to only princesses in other European reigning houses to be considered co-equal. And because they had to convert to Orthodoxy this pretty much excluded any Catholic dynasties in Europe from consideration. So the pool was limited to the various German kingdoms and duchies who were Protestant as well as the Oldenburgs of Denmark. Bad luck for WWI sympathies.

[@TheLocalLt]

Rulers of German princedoms (likewise for the vassal entities within other empires) were generally not good enough either unless they also had a truly independent kingdom or empire as their main holding, such as how the British monarchs held Hanover. Also worth noting that some of these German nobles were within the Russian Empire itself, as they ran the Baltics, however they did side with the Russians during WWI, at least until the Germans marched in and empowered them. One thing I don’t get though is why Catholic monarchs couldn’t convert, was it because they relied on the Pope for a portion of their legitimacy as royal families? I was under the impression that all monarchs, whether constitutional or absolute, elected or inherited, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, or even non-Christian, claim to have divine right to their throne by either the blessing of God or in some cases (namely Japan) by being descendent of God?

[@ClawedAsh]

@@TheLocalLt Well in the Catholic case the Monarchs have Divine right, but as the Pope is the official voice of god to Catholics it means that typically speaking that the Church, usually people filling in the position of the Pope, were the ones to ordain the Monarchs as the rightful King or Queen

[@reverbscherzo7850]

“… so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you…” -Vizzini

[@joshuahunt3032]

I know that medicine has an expiration date primarily because a lot of medicines become more and more inert when they “go bad” (as opposed to being outright dangerous like expired food). I guess it makes sense that poison could also go bad in the same sense of slowly losing all effect.

[@forgottenfamily]

Re Calendar (for anyone reading this, I'm sure VTH knows): the standard calendar used in the west is the Gregorian Calendar, created by Pope Gregory as a minor alteration of the old Julian Calendar. Pope Gregory is a Roman Catholic Pope so Orthodox Christians (amongst others) maintained the Julian Calendar. The two calendars diverge over the 100/400 year rules and so after nearly 2 millennia, they're 13 days apart. Western domination and standardization means that the Gregorian is now the secular standard around the world now but the Julian Calendar is still maintained for religious purposes - so things like Orthodox Easter follow the Julian Calendar dates.

[@richeybaumann1755]

4:50 This is the same warning that Frederick the Great gave to Peter III. Never leave your center of power, especially in the middle of a crisis against your authority.

[@Shifty69569]

Having a bad day but this brings me so much happiness when you upload. Thank you Chris

[@matthings4133]

The Belgian royal house who is still of the house Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (and will be the last remaining monarchy with that house after the death of Elisabeth II) also changed the name to 'of Belgium'.

[@professorwhat2704]

Another reason that the accounts of the conspirators should be taken with a grain of salt is that they were all on "liquid courage." That also probably explains their poor marksmanship. That's also where the role of potential involvement by British agents comes into play. Some claim that the British had to finish off a botched job by drunk would be assassins. It's also a commonly believed myth that he drowned after being thrown into the river. But not only did the reports not mention any poison in his system, but there was also no mention of water in his lungs. That appears to be an example of the myth surrounding the man overpowering facts.

[@justinalicea1590]

I mean, he very easily could have drowned to death on a technicality. People with a hole in their brain can still be alive, long enough to be tossed into a river and drown to death before the bleeding and trauma kills them.

[@professorwhat2704]

@@justinalicea1590 That wasn't the finding of the autopsy though. There's zero evidence that he drowned.

[@jackcrawford4025]

I read that cyanide can be countered if sugar is taken right before it hits, so the whole lacing his cake with cyanide wasn't really a good idea but I'm probably wrong

[@faeembrugh]

Tom Baker (better known as Dr Who) did a great Rasputin in 'Nicholas and Alexandria'.

[@malikcagatay7923]

Great video as always👍👍 You should see "suleiman the magnificent" series also by extra history They did another excellent job.

[@stephenparker6362]

Very interesting, I always thought Rasputin drowned, meaning he must have been alive when he entered the water but that wasn't mentioned, so I'm guessing that was wrong. It would be interesting to do something on the murder of the Russian royal family and whether anything could justify that.

[@justinalicea1590]

Actually, drowning is the official cause of death for Rasputin based off medical examination. But putting a bullet through a human brain doesn't necessarily means that the brain instantly stops functioning, meaning it is possible that Rasputin was technically, albeit more in the coma or vegetable kind, alive. Though not for long, since the brain damage and bleeding would have killed him, if they hadn't thrown him in the river. So while he did die by drowning, it's easy to argue that what really killed him was the bullet.

[@stephenparker6362]

@@justinalicea1590 Thanks for the info.

[@sonofhawaii4227]

That was different and very interesting. I hadn’t known much about him other than what I learned in college and had seen in movies. And those eyes are CREEPY! Another good one, Chris! Aloha 🤙🏼

[@nate1066pollock]

Wow, this really puts a new spin on Rasputin. I've always known him, through how he has been portrayed, as an evil psycho.

[@clarakabala5809]

Do you know what it would be cool? If you could talk about the Blood Countess Erzebet Bathory from Hungary known for many crimes in history, her story is surrounded by mystery. It would be great to know more about her. Cheers 👍

[@unforgottenhistory6376]

Good video. You drive my love for history keep it up.

[@unforgottenhistory6376]

Nooooooo! It doesn’t show he liked it

[@gk2370]

When I initially saw The Kingsman movie trailer, I thought it's just an over-the-top Hollywood adaptation that's definitely historically inaccurate, so I'm actually surprised when you mentioned that the movie got a lot of it right (considering Rasputin's life and reputation are already crazy on their own). Now I'm curious to watch that movie, thanks for this fascinating reaction series.

[@saubhagyalaxmimahapatra8869]

Actually , the King's Man is pretty much historically inaccurate .

[@aldbgbnkladg]

To that account, the Netflix series about this time looked pretty accurate, I enjoyed watching it.

[@David-fm6go]

" I speak not for myself but those who will come after me, they will live without hope. Men will wonder about, lost in the ruins and go mad. Tradition, virtue, they're all gone. And the world will be full of fanatics and trivial fools". - Sergie Witte in 1914 as portrayed in Nicholas and Alexandra.

[@CodyChepa88]

Great series . Keep up the good work Chris and looking forward to whats next 👍 Also suggest anyone who hasn't watched yet to check out the Vicksburg and Gettysburg videos . They are beautifully made and a great watch

[@LordJaric]

7:10 Sadly this still goes on today. Look at the islamophobia that rose after 9/11. Or even with Russians and people of Russian decent over Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

[@SignedSpade]

I really liked this series. I feel I learned a lot about a human being that has gotten kind of wrongfully demonized. While yes I do believe Rasputin did some morally wrong things. After reading more into him and watching this I don't believe he was evil, more a decent man with flaws just like all the rest of us.

[@jojo_da_poe]

It is funny that you mention The Kingsman, I watched it just two days ago.

[@Factor718]

Hi Chris I found your video when you reacted to Shapiro’s presidents video. Since then you’ve been pretty much the only channel I watch. I love your videos and I wanted to say thank you for making them

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Thank you Jay, and welcome!

[@unforgottenhistory6376]

I am twelve and Chris drives history for me thank you so much

[@yesiamawildflower]

Trust, but verify. This is why I’m here. Words like these. I loved this series. I thought I knew a lot about him. Turns out I was very wrong. :)

[@reygonzalez4719]

Well I guess there's only one thing to do now that it's over. There lived a certain man in Russia long ago, he was big and strong, and in his eyes a flaming glow.

[@1984isnotamanual]

10:40 Yankee Doodle lol, it was a new hit that people were playing over and over I guess haha 11:50 - His daughter said that he didn’t like sweets and wouldn’t eat those cake. The autopsy just describe a bullet hole in the head, there is a picture of his corpse showing this. That prince’s memoir isn’t to be trusted in other words. I read the wiki recently.

[@handfulofscrolls4472]

In Canada Berlin Ontario was changed to Kitchener Ontario during WW1

[@johnclayden1670]

I didn't know about the gramophone and Yankee-Doodle - cute!

[@wiseone1013]

Another thoroughly enjoyable series, we salute you.

[@prs_81]

Your pronunciation of Nogai Horde is really funny

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

The map I was looking at spelled it Nogay. Not sure how else one would pronounce that.

[@prs_81]

@@VloggingThroughHistory It is pronounced No-guy. Edit: I suppose it would be the fault of the text you were looking at for not being accurate, was funny anyhow.

[@samrevlej9331]

Hey! Love the Extra Credits reactions, so may I recommend for your next reaction either their Viking Expansion series (with the bonus prequel on the Sacking of Lindisfarne Monastery) or their Danelaw two-part series, or both? For some other stuff on the Viking world, I'll once again put forward the excellent channel History Time's series on Vikings and Early Medieval England. Here's the link to his channel: kzbin.infovideos And to his Vikings playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PL4kqG-CL4ToAxOkJDMUZzP12Lkan6p1WB To his Anglo-Saxon playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PL4kqG-CL4ToBW0Dhs1zBk3UmuCdoK23Ww

[@michaelgreico9630]

Mr Beat put out a video of all the presidential pets. You should react to it, Chris. TR and Coolidge had basically White House Zoos.

[@jy3n2]

I read somewhere that part of why the cyanide-laced cakes didn't work was that Rasputin had a well-known dislike of sweets and wouldn't have touched them.

[@thechosenoneforyou]

Can you make a US generals tier list? Seeing some of your opinions on George Washington and Robert E Lee makes me curious on who you have in S tier.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I did one for civil war generals a few weeks ago.

[@coachgoltzbizpro23]

Is it just me, or was Rasputin actually speaking sense to the Tsar at times?

[@yj9032]

You know the situation is messed up when Rasputin is the reasonable one

[@EmporerAaron]

16:04 That just reminds me of the Templar curse and Louis execution.

[@gabrielaagusts9854]

9:14 Just an interesting fact I remember hearing, Chirstopher Lee actually met Rapustins assassins (when he was like 3-6 years old), ironic, Christopher Lee acted Rasputin in the movie Rasputin the Mad Monk, amongst other famous roles.

[@jojo_da_poe]

You should maybe do a video where you answer many of the questions your viewers have.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I do Q and A streams at least once a month or so

[@jojo_da_poe]

@@VloggingThroughHistory Ah, I guess I just didn't notice. I might check them out.

[@Awells89]

Just saw the movie Nicholas and Alexandra and the death scene was a pretty solid depiction but I couldn’t help but crack up when they shot Rasputin (played by future Doctor Tom Baker BTW) I mean shost aim for the head! If you’ve seen the movie you know what I’m talking about

[@jjfwwhlol5923]

Hey man, could you react to some of Lazerpig’s stuff? I think you’ll enjoy his content

[@A-Greek_som]

9:54 ,his wife was Nicolas ii niece Irina

[@richeybaumann1755]

Another theory about the cyanide is that they made the mistake of using potassium cyanide against the alcoholic Rasputin. He likely had alcholic gastritis, mrnaing he had little stomsch acid. Without stomach acid, the cyanide couldn't be converted into hydrogen cyanide, which is far, far deadlier.

[@indrayudhguha3491]

Can u do a extra history Conquest of India reaction pls??!!

[@jonathanmcdonnell5894]

Have you ever visited Quebec City? There is so much cool stuff there.

[@kaiserconquerh6934]

Please do the Bismarck series

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Already done

[@kaiserconquerh6934]

@@VloggingThroughHistory cool will give it a watch. Also about sun yat sen?

[@hwheelez24]

I think that the cyanide could have cooked and made harmless during the cooking/ baking process.

[@johnloiacono7010]

Hello….may I recommend the video “Mongol destruction of the Khawarzanian Emoire” by History Dose…It’s not a super long video but it gives alot of nice info and the narration is very good

[@andreatomasi3755]

Can i suggest the series "defend of poland" from extra history to do next?

[@Mobysimo]

The more I hear if Iliador, the more I want to see it. Can we have a movie with him as the villian?

[@ninjamasterbuilder8675]

What would have happened if Nicholas would have listened to Rasputin's recommendations

[@yatharthbhandari1606]

You should watch their series on policing London and IBN Batutta

[@bozkurt3019]

9:35 Nogai is actually pronounced like "No guy" Not like "No gay" They are a Turkic speaking people who had a pretty powerful post Golden Horde Khanate (like Crimean Khanate). They are still around in Dagestan and in some other parts of modern Russian Federation.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

It was spelled Nogay on the map that’s why I pronounced it that way. I’ve since seen it as Nogai

[@phlarb6505]

Rasputin - "I'm not dead!"

[@David-fm6go]

8:43 Must you have said it like that? :P Their are conspiracy types who say that kind of thing. Yes the Germans had massive influence because they had so many royal grade houses and many of these countries required spouses to be of an equal ranked house.

[@TheKnowledgeMan101]

Hey could you react to "Puppet History" that is led by Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej. They used to be at Buzzfeed but now they have an independent channel of their own. And they have a series called "Puppet History" where they talk about history in a fun way with their historian being a blue puppet named "The Professor". Its a great and informative show

[@bananapanda9805]

Behold, the Three Stooges, Russian bureaucrats version, trying to kill some holy Russian hobo

[@ryanheister6802]

You should take a look at more UsefulCharts content as well as a video on the 1904 olympic marathon by Jon Bois.

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

Can you react to Atun-Shei's 1-hour-long KZbin documentary "In Defense of Puritanism" Vlogging?

[@quadri31]

I have a request for you! Can you react to Linfamy's channel? He covers mostly Japanese myth, folklore, and history and his humour is great

[@murmor6890]

Russia had a ton of German aristocrats outside of the royal family, for example the famous Black Baron Wrangel.

[@unforgottenhistory6376]

Chris just know I AM your biggest fan

[@laserbird7677]

They have the history of Brazil

[@unforgottenhistory6376]

I live in Oregon and I was hurt by his rank.😂

[@TerminalSports45]

Well with April Fools coming up you should see Extra History's Rasputin April Fools video for the laughs.

[@samakechijowo]

From what I learned, some of Rasputin's advices are actually good. Maybe he got knowledge after all, or it's just a pure coincidence

[@clarakabala5809]

Do a reaction video about Erzebet Bathory. Please 🙏 thanks in advance

[@VolkoTheShadow]

Ah Rasputin, a man that just like a sertain Valaccian got a reputation so bad that it fliped over and became great history.

[@kaloyanmanchev6613]

You see Boris, I told you he was the Anti-Christ and you didn't believe me.

[@theedslanky1235]

Would you be able to recommend any books for Russian history from the start of the reign of Tsar Nicolas thru the Russian Civil war?

[@robertschneider8045]

Hey can you react to WW2 - What if USA joined Axis (Part 1 to 3) By zvallid. It is very interesting what if and storytelling.

[@AlexKS1992]

Most European monarchs and nobility were German or French. The irony is very much lost during this time.

[@toriamansfield2999]

May I suggest using 'adapting' rather than 'infect'? Just a thought.

[@richardides2035]

No Gay Hord xDDDDDDD

[@Ilikepigs]

Nice

[@nikolaikvellestad7059]

I know you like ww1. You should react to apocalypse ww1. It is a 6 ep show with colors.

[@mattcharriere1775]

I would love to see your reaction to info graphics video on USA World War II war crime

[@dermotmcquaid3692]

We've made it guys! The PEAK of Rasputin's Crazy, INSANE Life, which is ironically the END of his life!

[@karendebbiejohnson7480]

If the Tsar had simply listened to the very wise advice of Rasputin, like waiting before making the second draft or not going in person to the front, the idiot might have survived the war. It's almost as if the peasant knew more about the reality of the people than the monarch stuck in his golden tower... Who knew?

[@ShivamR34440]

Great video

[@steveclarke6257]

Whilst concrete information is never truly trustworthy, in less you are the primary source!... It was said to me you can trust either one indisputable primary source or three other sources which gives the same fact- it's not infallible way of looking at evidence but good enough if your not writing a book/presenting your PhD.

[@dougearnest7590]

If three sources are trustworthy, then six sources must be better. So if ABC, NBC, and CBS reports match CNN, Washington Post, and New York Times verbatim, then you can bet .... oh... wait a minute.

[@JC-mx9su]

Chris pls react on Epic History tv The Russian Revolution 1917 or 1917: Russia's two revolutions after History of Russia 5 parts, you forgot to react about the History of Russia.

[@phantomtitan9792]

Interesting

[@savagedarksider5934]

When it comes to Russia involvement in ww1; This is one of the few times Rasputin was right.

[@kestrelraptorial689]

So Rasputin really was a lich.

[@aidenbohannon5377]

Now i know this isn't the topic of the video but it is a conversation that i find interesting. From what I've seen and what I've looked at, Hitler is possibly the best military strategist and tactician out of all the world leaders during WWII. My main reason being is his experience in the German army, and if im not mistaken, as a commanding officer. and he was able to use Germany's original plan to take France and made it even more likely to succeed and it eventually did. I would like for someone to maybe try and argue against this opinion but this is from what I have seen and studied.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

He was a corporal in WW1. He had no command experience in the army.

[@aidenbohannon5377]

@@VloggingThroughHistory Thanks for the correction! I had originally thought he had some command experience in the German army. That makes me think more about my original opinion on him being the best military strategist out of all the WW2 world leaders.

[@coltonthefish6498]

I used to think Rasputin was cool but I realize he was more neutral thank anything

[@prez343]

I honestly think he's still alive

[@BoraIlgi]

this is interesting, they want rasputin to fall out of favor (and possibly trying to make people forget that this man even exist) yet they solidify him as supernatural human and making him even more remembered in history. btw i really like your reactions on some historical events that you are not really understand (for example like oversimplified's three kingdoms video), so may i suggest extra history's majapahit series? i really like that series since it is part of indonesia's history that many people outside of southeast asia may not have been heard of (at least from what i know), and i really like their explanations. i really want to see if you could probably pull out some similarities in majapahit's history and compare it to some historical events that you may know. great video as always