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May 1996
Wonder-worker, saint old man or quack and adventurer? He managed to conquer the boundless trust of Aleksandra Fedorovna and Nikolay II, that entrusted to him life and health of czarevitch Aleksej, suffering incurable illness - hemophilia. Possessing inexplicable lordship over family of Romanovy, Rasputin played a rock role in falling of tsar's throne.
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May 1996
On March, 2, 1917 an emperor Nikolay II signed the manifest about renunciation from a throne. After renunciation a former sovereign is with a wife and children, not wishing and not having the opportunity to abandon Russia and will leave for a border, in banishment, lived under a house arrest in Tobolsk, and then in Ekaterinburg. In night on July, 17, 1918, in the notorious Ipatievskiy house, family of Romanovy was shot up.