Rasputin: A Drunken Serf Or A Real Saint ? | Photo 02

Well, he was never a serf - had always been a free man, as his father was. And the rumors of drunkenness were largely put forth by the nobility, who themselves were no saints in the drinking and promiscuity department. If you want to know the truth, read my new book: "Rasputin and The Jews" , available on Amazon. This book is a well-documented account of Rasputin as a healer, equal rights activist and man of God, and why he was so vilified by the aristocracy that their vicious rumors became accepted as history. For nearly a century, Grigory Rasputin, spiritual advisor to Russia's last Tsar and Tsarina, has been unjustly maligned simply because history is written by the politically powerful and not by the common man. A wealth of evidence shows that Rasputin was discredited by a fanatically anti-Semitic Russian society, for advocating equal rights for the severely oppressed Jewish population, as well as for promoting peace in a pro-war era. Testimony by his friends and enemies, from all social strata, provides a picture of a spiritual man who hated bigotry, inequity and violence. The author is the great-great niece of Aron Simanovitch, Rasputin's Jewish secretary.