Bad man or Scape Goat

He protected and defended the Romanov family from foreign hostile forces that wanted them a dead.

It's no accident that they were only butchered after his death.

If you actually read up on it most of what you heard about him is fictitious.

>>2494467
He was a con man as far as im aware, though most of the stuff was just rebel propaganda since they needed any excuse to throw shit at the romonovs.

>>2494467
there's extremely few people with more shit made up about him, and you understand why the more fact you actually find on him
in all honesty, he was just a behind-the-scenes advisor with far more control that any advisor behind a monarchy had at the time, and also a tad nutty
it took a fair bit of time and effort to kill the guy, which is the main reason why people made shit up about him
the other reason would've been propaganda fabricated by anti-monarchist revolutionaries within russia

>>2494479
I know it's fictitious Im just curious about the cause for it, and why this idea of him being an evil sorcerer has stuck around for so long

>>2494467
He was a charlatan like those spiritual healers with magic crystals today, but he wasn't really evil/demonic, just a con man.

The real question, did he cuck the tsar?
Will we ever know?

>>2494549
Also it's weird that it's stuck considering the sympathetic eye that's been given to the Romanovs

>>2494555
He didn't. There is no evidence for that other than propaganda spread by butthurt nobles.

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There was literally nothing wrong with the Romanovs

>>2494562
Kind of playing devil's advocate but
>Member of sect that practiced intentional promiscuity for the sake of better redemption or something along those lines
>Known womanizer even during the time
>Nicholas was a drooling autist who would rather play with trains than lead a country
>Rasp was in constant communication with Alexandra
>Held numerous private meetings with her, while Nicholas was away

>>2494614
Just ask yourself if he was cucking the tsar how would people know about it? They were never caught doing anything like that and tsarina never indicated she wanted to fuck some random rural peasant, all the "evidence" we have is just street gossip. Fake news.

>>2494632
You could even blame jews for spreading it since the tsar basically hated them and passed a bunch of laws to make their life shit, to appease the orthodox side.

>>2494647
Not just the Jews but also the butthurt nobles who were mad that some unwashed muzhik is closer to the tsar than they were.

>>2494647
>and within a decade his entire family was slaughtered
>within 3 decades Jewish lead bolsheviks were overthrowing Russian society in the name of communism

Really inks my quill tbqh