What's the Real Story Behind Rasputin?

[@marilouba]

The tangent less than a minute in, Simon raging against night clubs being too loud - the script reads Moscow 1915 :p

[@woolenthreads]

He is also thinking in terms of a modern "disco" style nightclub, rather than the old dinner club/bar with a singer style popular till the sixties. If he thought more in terms of speakeasies, he'd probably find it more comprehensible.

[@marilouba]

@@woolenthreads Yeah I figured as much, that's why I found his tangent funny. Nowadays he's right, clubs are awful for any sort of meaningful socializing, but back then it was probably drinks, food and cigarettes over live music :)

[@warrenreid1441]

😂😂😂

[@LockandLoad79]

Moscow 1915, The Hard Bass is too much for Simon.

[@LuDux]

There was anti-jazz compaign in Soviet Union under Stalin with slogan "Today he plays Jazz, tommorrow he will sell Motherland" (It rhymes much better in Russian). Don't know if they were angry about the volume at which people played jazz

[@valolafson6035]

Hearing him say RaraRasputin like that, sets my brain on edge.

[@vehicles_n_stuff]

Yeah, it sounds like he’s buffering

[@CTKnight]

As someone with hemophilia, aspirin is like a boogeyman for people with clotting issues not only because of its blood thinning effect, but because that effect sticks around for so much longer than other modern medications, so if doctors were giving Alexei the stuff, the real miracle is that he remained such an active kid. Also, major props to Simon and Arnaldo for one of the best, most realistic (and pretty accurate) and non-sensationalized descriptions of Hemophilia I’ve heard on a KZbin essay.

[@mattiemathis9549]

A gal I knew had the opposite problem, but didn’t find out until she was pregnant. She was older and it was her 4th pregnancy so they did an amnio. After testing her parents they realized she inherited a “hyper” clotting condition from each parent, each condition affecting her clotting in different ways. The doctors couldn’t believe she had 3 normal pregnancies and deliveries. I didn’t realize aspirin has that effect for so long. That’s damn scary because aspirin was the go to for every parent until the 50’s or 60’s. (I think. I don’t remember when acetaminophen was created) I wonder why, if the effects are that long, people have to take one every day? Maybe they didn’t have a way to control the dose? I know aspirin comes from a plant, maybe the dosage?

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@mattiemathis9549Aspirin has a lot of effects, pain medication and blood thinning are just two of them.

[@CTKnight]

If I had to venture a guess (as someone who’s far from an expert on how aspirin really works) I’d say its effects are more significant and pronounced for people who already have difficulty clotting. So for people who are prescribed aspirin after a heart attack, they’d probably need to take it more regularly to maintain the same level of thinning effect. But for someone who has trouble clotting, it’d just mean that if you start bleeding internally, you’re not only bleeding for a long time (from the bleeding disorder), but you’re bleeding faster because of that little bit of aspirin still hanging around. Though that’s definitely just a guess on my part, I’m no hematologist

[@grumpyoldman-21]

the rumor is rasputin stopped Alexi taking it, not healing him as claimed

[@BlueScreenCorp]

35:20 "a letter written by Rasputin shortly after his death" now that's impressive

[@ThroneOfBhaal]

He was a man of many talents.

[@Just.Be.Kind.please]

I had to jump to that time and hear it myself 😂

[@ZasukiJean]

😂😂😂

[@donaldmacarthur]

Someone sounds jealous that he probably won't write any letters after their own death...lol

[@Datsnice97]

Even more amazing that he wrote it after his death when he was also half illiterate.. must of learnt how to read and write after he died 😂

[@jrmckim]

I also believe that Rasputin had a calming effect on Alexi and the Tsarina. The more calm Alexi stayed, the lower his blood pressure and pulse. In turn, this allowed his wound(s) to heal.

[@davidt3563]

You know, I bet he had pretty good bedside manner. He had to be close to his siblings he lost, he had a lot of practice comforting the sick and dying. So I would definitely consider it very likely.

[@jus__gra]

Are you a viewer of count Dankula aswell?

[@feartheamish9183]

​@jus__gra jack rakham and a few others mention this aspect as well.

[@MrWizeazz]

Yea wasn’t it because he didn’t allow the doctors to give her son any aspirin?

[@Lunch_Meat]

Medical massage therapist here and you are probably on to something here. A lot of healing can be done by just working with the nervous system. I once helped a client who had nasty frozen shoulder simply by holding his shoulder in a relaxing place and talking to him about what caused the issue.

[@jessicajames6676]

Petition for all of Simon's more laid back channels to adopt the rant timer from BB

[@flowertrue]

Yes! I kept looking around the screen for it.

[@Marykate465]

tangent timer*

[@browninplay]

I can't read or hear his name, without immediately getting the Boney M song ear wormed into my brain - so after this episode I expect it to be in there for well over a week now, thanks a lot Simon! :P

[@SassyGirl822006]

Same, though I don't mind it.

[@flowertrue]

It's on my Seventies Rock/Funk playlist.

[@browninplay]

Oh yeah, it's definitely going on this weekend for pre-drinks :)

[@grashoppah]

Ma ma ma Ma baker

[@tubensalat1453]

Should you've woken up without that song in your brain, here's a friendly reminder. :)

[@chrisjeffery9582]

"Only 6 of his sibling died", yeah, it feels weird to me every time I remember that Victorian era photographs including babies where the baby isn't extremely blurry are mostly mementos after they died Exposure time meant good baby photo = dead baby photo

[@BURDYMAN777]

I've wondered why the baby would sometimes be so clear while the rest of the family look like a normal, grainy Victorian photo. Thanks for the new information. It will come to use while I'm out thrifting and flea marketing lol

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

and making photos of the dad wasn't so uncommon. Sort of like a last memento.

[@EShirako]

The past, in a great many ways, "Was the worst" as Simon likes to say. Especially in THIS way, the past was truly bad. And the ability to die from a scraped knee because no neosporin, no antibiotics at all, and so forth... Those death-images, though, those were a creepy variety of 'touching' in most cases. But definitely a bit creepy when viewed from our temporal/social perspective.

[@jastermereel6949]

I actually had to look this up and do some research because I couldn’t believe it but yes you are correct. Post mortem photography was common in Victorian times

[@BresciGaetano]

@@EShirako if any time you scrap a knee unless you eat up anthibiotics your life is a nuisance for the rest of the biome as that imply your chimical impact is skyroket high. The past was the best becouse nature had the chance to care for this problems. If you want in the mean time creepy dead fetish shit of our days anyway wait a tinny bit more when there will be a commerciably available personal Artificial Intelligence that can mimik someone. There is no shortage of request in the chat discussing the argument from wirdos that wish to have a memento of their dead relatives. Not to mention the hope of some researcher to achive human consciousness digitalization (aka eternal existence inside a machine) I thought "ubik" from P.K.Dick was too far fetch when i was a young boy... and yet here we are at the doors.

[@TerenceClark]

I've got a friend of mine who hates to have his picture taken, but is a dead ringer for Rasputin. So for many years on social media he just had various Rasputin pics as his profile pictures😂

[@bellasmom2597]

That is epic

[@wintergray1221]

Are you _sure_ he's not actually Rasputin? 👀

[@jastermereel6949]

Wish I could see that 😂

[@sylviegauthier2145]

A few posters have already commented about the lighting but the sound volume is too low as well. Thank goodness for subtitles! Otherwise this is an excellent video as usual. Love watching Simon's videos!

[@ashcatthedude]

I named one of my goats Rasputin. We did it as an inside joke after learning in a homeschool history class that he smelled like a goat.

[@cindyscrazy]

Is it me, or does the lighting on these videos get darker and darker each video? At least the shots of Simon at his desk.

[@ROE675]

Probably Simon was like, tidy up? Naw I'll just turn down the lights.

[@stephanybrown3226]

Either we will get a jumpscare or Simon is slowly transforming and we can't see it.

[@nicolemeiner6903]

okay I'm glad it's not just me, I kept turning the brightness up thinking it was my monitor

[@valolafson6035]

Being swallowed by the void.

[@barbhinc5081]

If you squint just right his head seems to float

[@pmgn8444]

Wait. At 35:31, Rasputin wrote a letter after his death? Neat trick.

[@pleasedontstopthemusic8639]

We love your tangents Simon❤

[@the-chillian]

Yes, the claims about "Comte de Saint-Germain" (note: probably not a real count) would make and excellent DtU. When he first popped up in European society, he was a reputed alchemist who had successfully transmuted base metals into gold, could manufacture gems, and of course had discovered the Philosopher's Stone granting him immortality. Later on, esoteric organizations like Helena Blavatsky's Theosophists regarded him as an Adept. Her writings about him are truly unhinged, but some people believe her to this day.

[@valolafson6035]

I would watch the heck out of that.

[@LastbutNotFirst]

not trying to stir any pots but germain saved president trump. try it.. googles.. ;)

[@the-chillian]

@@LastbutNotFirst He usually is, if you believe he's one of the ascended masters.

[@LastbutNotFirst]

@@the-chillian 😉

[@courageandcake]

Eventually all his channels will just be his head floating in the endless void. Screaming "AM I RIGHT PETER" before rambling off into tangents.

[@cellochick42]

Classic Whistler. Begins the episode by trying to remember the MULTIPLE videos he has done on the same topic.......as I do EXACTLY the same thing. 😂 ❤

[@themightymoose5047]

The video i didn't realize I wanted to see till you made it!

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

Praskovya Dubrovina remained in Pokrovskoye throughout Rasputin's later travels and rise to prominence, and remained devoted to him until his death. Rasputin's daughter, Maria Rasputin, emigrated to France after the October Revolution and then to United States. There, she worked as a dancer and then a lion tamer in a circus.

[@YoutubeBorkedMyOldHandle_why]

The real significance of Rasputin is not in the legends and fairy tales, but rather his impact on a major World power and the subsequent ripple effects. The first World war after all was a brutal affair which could easily have gone to one side or the other. The entirety of World history since then, has been profoundly influenced by the seeds sown during that conflict. Whatever stories have been told about him, Rasputin unquestionably had a lot of influence with the Tsar and his family, influence which could easily have propelled history down a very different path than the one we are all living today. I often ponder a World where Rasputin never came to Saint Petersburg, where perhaps the Tsar clung to power, the soviet union never was, where Germany was soundly beaten and hitler died in prison. Would it be better now, or catastrophically worse? Who knows? Yet the influence of this one peasant could have made the difference.

[@HoundMonkey]

It's just Simon's pale disembodied head floating in the darkness while two random hands wave about in front of him...

[@bigdog973]

Plus the occasional glimpse of his neck

[@aceundead4750]

Simon's secretly a Haunter and we actually live in the world of Pokemon.

[@ToaArcan]

Simon has become an N64-era Nintendo boss.

[@Bluesit32]

Just like Andross.

[@brainspatula]

The thinking man’s Max Headroom

[@doctorlolchicken7478]

Rasputin was actually a Time Lord. Look at any picture of him, imagine a long multicolored scarf and a hat, possibly a robot dog. Time Lord. He was hard to kill because he had two hearts and he kept regenerating.

[@Coffee-hj5di]

You’re on the right track, but you got the wrong Time Lord, a crazy bombastic Time Lord who squeezed their way into the tsar’s good graces, maybe tried to become prime minister before perhaps? Via some Master-ful plan?

[@RichardWatt]

​@@Coffee-hj5dibut would he have been played by Roger Delgado or Anthony Ainley?

[@jamessmith5666]

Ever heard of Swiss UFO contactee Billy Meier? You know one of his photos from Mulders poster in the X-Files. Meier is the reincarnation of Rasputin according to the ET’s who speak to him to this day.

[@zmanjace1364]

The fact that original documents exist from between 2 drastic government changes is rather amazing to me.

[@ThestuffthatSaralikes]

I’ve always been fascinated by the Romanov’s and Rasputin’s stories so I’m super excited for this!!!! Buuut Simon is currently railing against niteclubs? so… I guess we’re getting a lot of “extra material” tonight!😊 have a good y’all!

[@ThroneOfBhaal]

I can do it too! "But beware the shadow that creeps in the twilight, for power corrupts even the purest intentions, and the echoes of forgotten wars rumble once more. Yet, hope flickers like a candle in the storm, fueled by the courage of those who dare to listen to the whispers of the future." What does that mean? Whatever the hell you want it too whenever it could be appropriate...

[@larrackell]

"The sun grows dark, but lo! Here comes the dawn!"

[@MrThedrachen]

A+ prognostication. Can I join your cult?

[@Nicolesid1]

FYI they have tested Alexei, he had hemophilia B, Christmas disease, but the severity is unknown. The sister found with him, many assume Maria was also believed to be a carrier as she also died for tonsil surgery.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

8:35 - Chapter 1 - Life of grigori 21:50 - Chapter 2 - Healing powers ? 28:10 - Chapter 3 - Prophetic powers ? 37:15 - Chapter 4 - Death of grigori 45:00 - Conclusion

[@taddybear4244]

Simon didn't mention that hagiography inherently means also glazing the subject and treat overly generously. Which is why I love that Aliester Crowley openly wrote an "autohagiography".

[@matthawkins3584]

We need the "Tangent Timer" on all of Simons videos.

[@stevenanderson9719]

Several years ago, I was looking into Russian history and ran across a book where the author postulated that Rasputin was a calming effect on the Tsarina. By keeping the doctors away and keeping the heir calm it would appear to the superstitious that he had magical healing powers.

[@belle6478]

In French we also say paysan which is directly, translated to peasant, but it’s more in terms of a farmer than peasant or someone who lives in the countryside

[@mattt525]

Love you Simon! Thankful for all your "fascinating tangents"

[@benleake6334]

I have personally seen people with fatal wounds to both the head and heart speaking to me arriving at the hospital 15-20 minutes after being shot. Rarely is death instant like you see in the movies.

[@RichardWatt]

ERod (The Blockbuster Buster on KZbin) survived being shot in the head when he was a kid. His doctor & family reckon that someone else in their neighbourhood fired a gun into the air and the bullet came back down from its arc into his head.

[@benleake6334]

@@RichardWatt saw a fella shot in the neck with a 9mm at close range, and somehow it missed every artery and vein, and he walked out of the hospital a couple of hours later

[@christerprestberg3973]

Regarding hemofilia, if you are on bloodthinners, you are adviced to avoid shaving with a razor since thinners also make bloodclothing harder.

[@darkbeach72]

You should absolutely take your author up on that suggestion. St. Germaine features prominently in Umberto Eco's book, Foucault's Pendulum, which weaves together multithreaded conspiracies across time. "Thinking man's Davinci Code"

[@sofiemarbais371]

Simon! for the first time today, I got on spotify to find a podcast about Asperger. My second action was to look for your channels. I find them, I'm excited, I start scrolling to see the abundance, I let my scrolls stop on a random point...... How porcupines mate, the bizarre sex habits of giraffes (and much, much more) ......... Simon, we need to talk

[@robinlandry518]

I just watched a video about the healings of the Czars son. Rasputin used treatments we still use for bleeding: apply pressure and elevate the area (all i remember at the moment)

[@johnpaulgonzaga5997]

Ooo this character's a juicy one hehe. Forgot about how interesting a DTU on this guy would be so much thanks Simon and team. The laughs I get watching DTUs perks up my day hehe.

[@DaleyKreations]

YES please re the St Jermaine stuff. SO many cults and crazy people through the last several centuries have claimed to either have been this guy OR given a "spiritual mission" by this guy.

[@PoliticallyPink]

definitely want to see the episode on St. Germaine!

[@nickshane5985]

For the early tangent about restaurants inside night clubs. I can only comment on my state. But here if you want to serve hard liquor, you have to also have a kitchen serving food.

[@katsmeow6946]

Ut?

[@HannesHace]

I was born with hemophilia and you can live quite well these days. Given that it’s a genetic desease it’s not curable but there are medicaments to supplement the factor 8 insufficiency. Most of theses are made from blood donations. So if you are ever wondering what thats used for - this ist one Application. It’s not perfect tho. Wounds still take a lot longer to heal (better than if they weren’t at all) and sometimes there is a small permanent injury. Theses stack up over time, the joints are affected the most. I.E. my ankles aren’t in the best condition. I’m able to live like normal but I can’t go for a run longer than an hour because of prior bleedings in the past

[@GiantPetRat]

So I looked up the Khlysty sect on Wikipedia, which is stated in this video as being about "finding God via sin", but on Wiki it says : "The Khlysty practiced an extreme asceticism, in order to prepare themselves for the reception of the Holy Spirit into their bodies. They abstained from alcohol, and although marriage was permitted for practical purposes, 'because the help of a wife was indispensable for a peasant', it was a sin to engage in sexual intercourse, even with one's own wife." So yeah, take that as you will I guess? Love the video at any rate! I always learn a lot, and Simon rambling in between bits of information actually really helps my small brain to process the facts better. 😁

[@shanesullivan460]

I would love to see an episode about the Comte de Saint Germain.

[@EggsOverCheesy]

🎼Ra Ra Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine.

[@lazarussolomon3541]

There lived a certian man in russia long ago!

[@wise_girl9388]

@@lazarussolomon3541 He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow!

[@misfitr]

​@@wise_girl9388when i was a kid i thought he had a flamingo in his eyes.... yeah

[@GreenEyedGoblin]

Id argue Rasputin could have known about aspirin. Its from Willow bark and he could well have had knowledge of those old school medicines and their effects and uses, even it wasn't a concrete understanding of why it works. We know now a lot of what we called old wives tales or folk medicine, very often the plants and herbs they'd use way back when are the bases of modern medicines we still use today. There's also some thinking that if Alexei did have a milder form of the condition, it could also be exacerbated by stress, and having doctors fuss over him, give him medicine that seems to make him worse, would be very stressful, make him extremely anxious, and might be preventing him from resting and sleeping. Rasputin did appear to be one of those people who's quite magnetic and maybe he had a very calming presence, maybe his presence, or the thought (for a deeply religious, spiritual family) that he is praying and sending some sort of healing or something, was enough to abate the anxiety. And as a lot of Catholicism, early form, Orthodox etc, borrowed many traditions, rites etc from folk religions...it fits into some aspects of the belief system. And in fact many religious rites, rituals, beliefs etc just stem from some sort of...early knowledge or observation of something that would later become a scientific reality. Moses is sometimes referred to as the earliest microbiologist, obviously not literally, but...in Judaism, practies such as regular washing, not eating shellfish and pork, are all just very early insights into disease and hygiene. Its very likely, of course, that whomever decreed these rules didn't figure out germ theory thousands of years earlier than eveyrone else, but, they would have been able to observe that regular washing seems to prevent sickness, that people get sick most often from pork and shellfish. Even keeping Kosher, while there's a religious reason for it, the actual things you do, some of them are pretty much just good hygiene practice when prepping food. Clearly, someone waaaaaaaay back when had figured out some fairly involved, complex truths, again, even if not knowing WHY, they had made the connection that these activities lead to these outcomes. While we didn't formally discover that aspirin had blood thinning properties untl the 1950's or so, its not implausible Rasputin had some folkloric idea that aspirin can have that effect. And, again, he'd know prayer, particularly the kind of prayer he'd be doing, is a meditation.

[@BlackNewty]

Some fare points however aspirin thins the blood. So you starting thesis is incorrect.

[@dragonhawkeclouse2264]

It is interesting that he presented the idea of the atmosphere being set on fire....which, was actually a concern by some scientists about detonating an atomic bomb.....though, such concerns were shown to be wildly unfounded

[@dsnodgrass4843]

It should be said that: 1. Rasputin was probably very rough, bc of where he was from and the life he lived before ever seeing St. Petersburg. He did travel a lot, but also roughly, so that never would've refined him all that much. As for being "bad" or 'good'; who knows? A Siberian can be either to a high level, as survival demands. 2. The Russian nobility, male and female, were as vicious a pack of snakes as ever drew breath; and proximity to the autocracy was the prize they fought over most. Taking out Rasputin was not a hard choice for them, as he was in the way.

[@sherrifarris8878]

I vote for a Ste. Germaine episode! The myth and legends are really fun.

[@Tyrany42]

Kind of crazy how Rasputin is portrayed as a devious villain in pop culture, even though credible accounts paint him as a pretty decent fellow who was just kind of weird.

[@bonniephillips1823]

Not crazy at all. It was intentional propaganda planted by the church leaders and those that conspired to bring down the Czar

[@straightrippnable706]

I'd say it's probable 1915 "nightclubs" were far more 'social eating' than EDM/pop-music meatmarket

[@kinseyd5341]

Lately, the lighting in the shots of Simon have been so dark, not a huge fan. But really interesting video!

[@bradlevantis913]

Hey Arnaldo, pitch the St Germane idea. It sounds interesting

[@dejafx839]

Ronaldo's script was excellent. Definitely enjoyed the deep dive and research done. The Romanov history has always been fascinating to me. Ra ra Rasputin 😂

[@Aalisrocklist]

is the rasputin song the same one they used in that episode in last black mirror´s season? the one with the demon?

[@christopherjustice6411]

Here’s all you need to know. There lived a certain man, in Russia long ago. He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming gold Most people look at him with terror and with fear But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear He could preach the Bible like a preacher Full of ecstasy and fire But he also was the kind of teacher women would desire Ra-ra-Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen There was a cat that really was gone Ra-ra-Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine It was a shame how he carried on

[@ThroneOfBhaal]

Oh, it doesn't say "Lather up the Russian Queen"? Oops

[@demonflowerchild]

What is this?

[@michelleappenheimer4670]

So much better than the song that was stuck in my head from the last video I watched. I won't mention it. You're welcome.

[@jrmckim]

​@demonflowerchild the song by Boney M. Got a good beat to it. Makes me wanna dance

[@hankjones7054]

Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey

[@CCNeutson]

Anyone know the name of the name of the song in the background? I know I've heard it before and want to get the piano score. Thanks all!

[@murrayscott9546]

I've read/heard the apocryphal story many times. Fascinating person in tumultuous times.

[@brettharvey8238]

Simon big Fan..keep up the great work u do..I love the content I’ve been waiting for Rasputin…He was a beast

[@maurer3d]

1:24 A night club in that time was a bar or restaurant that stayed open late and had live entertainment (comedians, magicians, singers, bands, etc). Nothing like the night clubs of today that are glorified warehouses where they destroy your eardrums.

[@mikelfunderburk5912]

Oh, Simon. Yes, if its too loud, you're too old. Ive been Djing since 1997. I heve recently stopped because of an inner ear issue. Not from the loud music, I was born with this issue, its now 4 surgeries later since the age of 8.

[@helenr4300]

Then I was 'too old' at 18! Just personal preference. Sorry you have to leave the your career.

[@patriciaposthumus6684]

In the end, I thought that he was going to say that Rasputin was really Merlin. That would have been just as believable as Saint Germain being Rasputin. Lol Another well put together script. The basement gang are really starting to earn their food and water. In this case, apparently, wine. Simon's spring for the good stuff now. Lol

[@LuKaZz420]

Loved this one. Well done Simon

[@jellogirl2010]

I had recurring nightmares about the real Rasputin as a kid growing up. His allegedly staying alive under water was too much for me to handle.

[@homerodysseus4203]

Love the story of Rasputin, thanks for covering it

[@VeracityLH]

Another theory of Rasputin's"healing" of Tsarevitch Alexei is that between the doctors' frightening presence and his mother's severe anxiety, Alexei's blood pressure was up when he was ill, surely no help to a hemophiliac. Rasputin's calm and confident attitude reduced the anxiety for mother and child, the doctors were gone, the aspirin gone, and blood pressure reduced, slowing bleeding and reducing pain as well. Rinse and repeat. Once they had faith in this process, even a telephone call (or in one case, a telegram) from Rasputin produced the same result, especially if the hemophilia was mild to begin with.

[@Dukedogdog]

I do have a weird intrigue by Rasp. There's something off for sure. Idk if he was a miracle worker or what not. But it's odd how hard he was to kill, how much he was able to do by doing basically nothing and his eyes. In photos his eyes are always so clear and haunting. I'm not a religious or spiritual person, but if I would put my money on a magic man it would be him. The eyes tell me something I cannot understand.

[@tijsvanderBorst]

you can't threat Hemophylia only use expensive medication but that will be provided by the government. my brother in law has it and it is passed down in somebody's bloodline. but only woman can pass it down, so when my gf was pregnant we needed to quickly check if we had a boy or girl. Because only a boy can have the disease and woman only carry the gene with them, with a certain percentage of Blood Clotting. mostly around 25%-50% instead of when you have the disease and don't have any Blood Clotting. (sorry for the poor english)

[@seancurry3138]

Besides the lighting, is the framing leaving about a 2” blank space above the framed picture as if formatting is off or something?

[@feartheamish9183]

I sub to a stupid amount of your past and current channels. Gotta say though when i gotta clean or garden this channel is my first choice.

[@andiward7068]

Casual Criminalist is my go-to, but this and Into the Shadows are great for backgrounding.

[@CuddlesTheSlayer]

Has Simon done a video on Saint Germain (no clue how to spell his name, and to busy to look)? I want to see that.

[@Bluesit32]

I don't remember where I heard this, but it's possible that the poisoning was indeed attempted, but the poison was put in during the baking process, which it did not survive. This would explain why there was no poison found in Rasputin's corpse. This led to the panicked shooting, followed by beating his corpse before tossing it into the river.

[@boomjykeo2]

Literally 10 seconds after the title screen and Simon’s on a tangent. This has to be a record of some sort.

[@ryanc473]

I'm down for a St. Jermaine episode lol

[@godhasgas]

Well done team! And I can see that blazer, looks good. People in the comments need to up their brightness on their screens just a tad.

[@flowertrue]

No, it really is a little dark. I tried turning up the brightness and it turns the weird glowing eye light into a pain-inducing pinkish laser.

[@rareplaid]

I have watched this one at least 6 times- fascinating!

[@XamposGR]

I think Father Iliodor's name isn't as Simon pronounces it. Simon says IlLodor, i think it is Il- i-odor... spelling i l i o d o r. I think it's from the words Ilios= sun and dor(o)= present/gift. Father Iliodor's name, i think, means a gift from the sun...like the name Theodor, which in this case it means a gift from God. :) Just a little trivia for you all.

[@StefanMedici]

I for one need more madeira fueled scripts.

[@friendlyxfire6783]

I wanna hear about this saint jermaine guy

[@LaLune117]

Why do I watch these videos and answer Simon's questions as though we're having a conversation?

[@bogbupog]

"It was like fighting a boss in dead souls" -Prince Felix Yusupov

[@Lucie.Greening]

As a Czech, I have never heard the use of “selske” as peasant 😁 but it is cute when Simon speaks the forbidden language 😂 Rasputin was an odd character.

[@terdsie]

Anybody notice that, during Simon's first tangent about nightclubs being too loud, that the volume of the episode slowly lowered?

[@flowertrue]

Fun fact: Boney M, the band associated with the Rasputin song, is a creation of Frank Farian, the guy who later put together a famous pair named Milli Vanilli. And similarly, the vocals of Boney M were recorded largely by Fabian himself.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Boney M never pretended to be anything but puppets.

[@flowertrue]

@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff I think they just didn't make much of a deal of it. Plus it was the 70s. Very different time.

[@viceforever]

I live for Simons rants!!!!

[@robmerrell1745]

Nothing really to say, just want to feed the algorithm.

[@gadiensguide4385]

Shill!!

[@ZasukiJean]

"nowadays it's like that would be insane to have that many children die, I'd be like omg im so sorry " Well in that case there's like parents of 10.000 children you can go say sorry to whose children have been murdered in the last 4 months. Murdered by a country you have visited and have talked about without shame in your tangents. Rest in peace Hind and Sidra and the over 10.000 other children.

[@curtislindsey1736]

Simon is so dark, I mean that literally. Get some lights! You look like a floating head 😂

[@almitrahopkins1873]

Simon thinks a discotheque is a nightclub. That Russian restaurant/nightclub probably just had a stage, dance floor and a band. Records and thumping sound systems weren’t common until multiple decades later.

[@josefstrauss9017]

Since the Boney M topic is good, let’s do a casual criminalist episode about Ma Baker 😜

[@alaintobin6690]

I only very recently re-watched a similar video on this same dude on one of your former channels that you hosted....should have a playlist on one of your new channels with just videos for them og channels before it all fell apart over there

[@JaimieBall-ji9td]

Is there a good reason why when I listen to the podcast on Spotify it is almost to silent to hear

[@LuDux]

5-10 years ago I heard interview with some Russian historian. Here's what I remember: Healing. Prodedures to stop bleading were quite painful and difficult to perform because Alexei would not keep quiet. But in presence of rasputin he was quiet and allowed doctors to do their job Death. He was supposed to be witness at corruption trial about selling of military ranks. According to postmortem he spent last hours tied tightly to a chair. Where were signs of torture, like hair being pulled. He was killed by three pistol shoss to his torsoe from 3 angles Tsar kept Rasputin in his court because he wanted to be closer to common people

[@btetschner]

Rasputin is a very intriguing historical figure.

[@fulltiltboogie1038]

Rasputin funk overload is all you need to see

[@mringasa1848]

Sounds like perfect Patreon content. Simon singing Rasputin and giving us his best disco fever.

[@tommunyon2874]

I read a biography of Rasputin that I recall was written in the early 1950s. It seemed fairly definitive. When I took Russian history as an elective in high school honors history it seemed that most of my classmates did reports on Rasputin or Ivan the Terrible. I decided years later to read a biography that might offer some greater clarity of his story. Not just illiteracy, but a belief that the possession, reading and interpretation of holy scripture was strictly the province of the clergy, kept the commoners from reading the Bible. What I remember from the biography was the many accounts of Rasputin fooling around with the Tsarina's ladies in waiting, as if they partied daily like Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, et al. I question whether the daily court life in St. Petersburg was accurately depicted.

[@larsvaahlmar1784]

Horse theft was definitely one of the worst crimes in the old times. There's even sayings scattered throughout Europe that go along the lines of "... and they will be dealt with like they deal with hose thieves." Meaning they will receive a terrible punishment.

[@annaschwirian7548]

I loved this if you want more info on Rasputin as a man search for the interview his daughter gave on her view of her father

[@nicoler.wunderink_2874]

5 min ago ot was uploaded, ive never been this early