1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hi, everybody, welcome 2 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: to Who Did What Now? The history podcast that's not 3 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: your history class with me your sniffling host, Katie Charlewood, 4 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: terrible patient and reader of books. If I sound a 5 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:35,160 Speaker 1: little bit different, it's not only horse but I seem 6 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 1: to have caught the common cold, which is the first 7 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,519 Speaker 1: time I've ever been common in my life. No, No, 8 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: that was a shit joke. That was terrible. I did 9 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 1: my VPC artist it came back negative, So I do 10 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: not have the COVID. I'm just sick and I feel 11 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: like I have been punched right in the face. I've 12 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: got sinus headaches and it's just But you know what, 13 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 1: I'm going to start with some good news today. I 14 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 1: came home the other day to present Marisa Marissa. You 15 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 1: know what, I'm going to say both of those names, 16 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: because I'm hoping one of them is the correct pronunciation. 17 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: I came home to two books from my Amazon wish list, 18 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: and I want to say thank you so much. I 19 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: use these for research. Have the okay kind of well, 20 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: most of the books on my wish list are for research. 21 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: Some of them are just stuff that interests me, which 22 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: can sometimes lead to more research, but isn't that the 23 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: way it should be? Like I was struggling to figure 24 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: out what I was going to talk about this week, 25 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: like I had no clue because I'm like, do I 26 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: want to do something festive or do I want to 27 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: save some festive stuff for later on? And are there 28 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: really any interesting festive stories? And I was, you know, 29 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: I was just kind of not feeling it. I wasn't 30 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: I wasn't feeling it. I came across Maria Respuren, who 31 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: I swear to God is far more interesting than her 32 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 1: father ever was, and you're thinking, really, how can she 33 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: be more interesting than the mad monk? Oh? I'm glad 34 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 1: you asked, because I'll tell you. But first I want 35 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 1: to thank everybody who has been messaging me and dming 36 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 1: me and rating and reviewing five stars on Apple podcast 37 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: and for everyone who's been listening on Spotify. I was 38 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: actually able to check my Spotify wrapped this year, like 39 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: as a podcaster, And you, guys, I love you. 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If you want to 57 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: send book money, you can always send something to the 58 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: Papal Who Did What Now pod at gmail dot com, 59 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: or you can just click the link down below in 60 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: the show notes. But I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, 61 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: quite your gibber jabber in fact me, In fact you 62 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: I will. But first we've got to get our source on. 63 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: So we have my father by Maria Resputin. 64 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 2: The Resputin File by Edvard Dzinsky, Prelude to the Revolution, 65 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 2: The Murder of Resputin by Ronald Simo, and Resputin The 66 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 2: Untold Story by Joseph Furman. 67 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 1: So let's start from the beginning, shall we, Matrila, Oh, 68 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 1: I should also apologize straight away if I pronounce things incorrectly. 69 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: I am trying my best, and I would like to 70 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: hopefully use the excuse of the fact that I'm will 71 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: signing to say, but please, please don't be too mean 72 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: to me, considering the only thing I can say in 73 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: Russian is I can say de lubia, but I can 74 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,039 Speaker 1: the only sentence I can say is Despina need to 75 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: be jatibiat, and I'd probably pronounce him that wrong anyway. 76 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 3: So Madriona Kurrigoryevna Rasputina was born on the twenty seventh 77 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 3: of March eighteen ninety eight, not eighteen ninety nine, which 78 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 3: actually says in our tombstone, but eighteen ninety eight. For 79 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,559 Speaker 3: years they thought it was, you know, a year later. 80 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 3: But when the fall of the USSR the Soviet Union 81 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 3: a lot of Russian records were opened up, they were 82 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 3: unsealed and it had her birthdate. 83 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: So now we know so yeah, she was born in 84 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: this peasant village in Siberia to Gregory Rasputin and his 85 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: wife Braskovia Fyodorovna Dobrovna. So yeah, she's from this wee 86 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: village Pokrovskoy. I feel like I've pronounced that really wrong. 87 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: In September nineteen ten, she went to Kazan and then 88 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: on to Saint Petersburg. She would have been about twelve 89 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,839 Speaker 1: ish tirl yenish around about that time, and changed her 90 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: name from Madriona to Maria to kind of to make 91 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 1: her upwardly mobile, because her name would have been quite 92 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: a peasantye name, to be honest, kind of peasante. Because 93 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: she had social aspirations, she needed to make her name 94 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: more befitting that. So Maria and her wee sister Varvara, 95 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: they go along over Sputin to Saint Petersburg so he 96 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 1: can make them little ladies, you know, to give him 97 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 1: a better chance at life. Erika all that jazz, all 98 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: the stuff that you know, women would have needed at 99 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 1: that time. Cough cough. So they were refused to entry 100 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: to the Smoley Institute, which was like what fun fact, 101 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 1: was established by Catherine the Great as a way of 102 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: providing formal education for girls, so they get well, they 103 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: don't get in there, and they end up going to 104 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: the Stublin Commenscape private prep school in nineteen thirteen, so 105 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 1: she would have been about fifteen ish, I think fourteen, 106 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 1: fifteen fifty. That's it. So things are going all right 107 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 1: in Saint Petersburg. They're trying to climb the social ladder. 108 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: Things are going not so bad. You see, in the 109 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: summer of nineteen fourteen, a woman, believing Grigory Wesputin to 110 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: be the anti Christ to assassinate him, and she did 111 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 1: it by stabbing a knife through his abdomen. And this event, 112 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: basically this attack really ignites a change in Gregory Resputin 113 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: and his behavior. It's like a it's like a flip 114 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: switches and like with someone, like quite a lot of 115 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: people who deal with trauma, he turns to alcohol, specifically 116 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: tissert Winds, which have a really fucking high alcohol content. 117 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: He and the other thing that people who suffer trauma 118 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: also do. He really leans into religion. So he gets 119 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: well into the Russian Orthodox, like really into this faith. 120 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: He learns he like he's learning all about magnetism and 121 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 1: it's uses in the human body, and this becomes the base, 122 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: the foundation or whatever for his like healing hands and 123 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: his magic healing skills, his mysticism and shit sae resputing 124 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 1: is a he's known as the mad Monk, but he 125 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: wasn't even seen as a monk at the time, like 126 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: he was seen as a was it a steret or 127 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: something starret basically like a pilgrim thing. He was like 128 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: a just a mystic, a pilgrim, a healer, not necessarily 129 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: a monk. I think it's more based on attire, really clothing. 130 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: But okay, so because he's hanging out with the Romanovs 131 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: and he seems to be the only one that can 132 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: cure way Alexey. So Alexei is the he's the son 133 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: of the Zar Nichels a second, and he's a hemophiliac, 134 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: and he's got like a bunch of stuff wronger than me, 135 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: Like he has like shakes and other kind of stuff, 136 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: and Rasputin is the only one who can like calm 137 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: him with the fuck down and ease him and relax 138 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 1: him and stop his bleeding somehow. But yep, okay, you 139 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: know what, that was pretty dismissive. No, seriously, Alexei. He 140 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: had this condition called homophilia, which was known as the 141 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:06,959 Speaker 1: royal disease because he had inherited it from Queen Victoria, who. 142 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 4: Was effectively the grandmother of all the royal day in Europe. 143 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 4: It cared it pretty severe in fairness, so to the 144 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 4: point where he actually had two navy officers sort of 145 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:19,959 Speaker 4: around him at all times, basically taking care of him 146 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 4: and making sure he didn't injure himself, because if he 147 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 4: got an internal hemorrhage of any kind, it literally could 148 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 4: be it literally could be basically the end for him, 149 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 4: and at one point it almost was. This very scenario 150 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 4: happened and they thought he was going to die until 151 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 4: Resputant entered and basically healed him somehow, like the swelling 152 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 4: went down, the fever went away, he stopped fucking screaming like. 153 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 4: Because there was this whole secrecy thing, Alexi's condition was 154 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 4: very much kept stumpstum that you know, it wasn't really 155 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 4: brought up so nobody, So we don't really have records 156 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 4: of how Resputin managed to heal. 157 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: Alexei or what exactly he was healing him from. We 158 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: only have snippets here and there, so resputing. Because of 159 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 1: his like healing hands and shit, he becomes this fucking 160 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: sensation in Russia. And because he's the only person that 161 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: can really deal with Alexe, he becomes incredibly close to 162 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: the Czar and the arena. Effectively he's part of the furniture. 163 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: And because he is so, as his daughter Maria, who 164 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: is like pretty close in age to the rest of 165 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 1: the the Czar's the rest of the Romanov girls, so 166 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: like all good Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, they're they're all 167 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: kind of about the same age. They're all, you know, teens. 168 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 1: Maria described them as elegant but cloistered, so like they 169 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:58,319 Speaker 1: didn't really have access to anything out with the palace walls. 170 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: So Maria was like this fascinating beacon of information. She 171 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: had all this information and she could tell them about 172 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 1: the world and all this other stuff that is without 173 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: their blinkers on, you know. Unfortunately, this closeness with the 174 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: Romanovs really created sort of a discontent pissed people off, 175 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: to be honest, because they assumed that this quote unquote 176 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 1: mad Monk was whispering in the ear of the Cizar 177 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 1: and he was influencing like matters of state and shit. 178 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: Oh and also he was like a filthy horror apparently 179 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: AnyWho so kelsy praise. A bunch of aristocrats say fuck 180 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: this for a game of soldiers, and they decide to 181 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: assassinate Resputing. So this is his second assassination attempt slash slash. 182 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:59,839 Speaker 1: This is the second time someone tries to assassinate him, 183 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 1: so which turns out to be a rather difficult task. 184 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: So he gets stabbed and poisoned and shot and then 185 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 1: thrown into a river. And it's only when he is 186 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 1: thrown into the icy Neva river that he drowns and dies. 187 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: And here's the thing, and it's Maria who has to 188 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 1: identify the body of her father via a galosh that 189 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: was stuck to the bridge from which the killer had 190 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: supposedly thrown him off of. For a way while after that, 191 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 1: Maria and her sister Varvara, they are still staying in 192 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: the palace with the Romanovs. But Empress Alexandra the z Arena, 193 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 1: she coldn't really see that shit is going down, and 194 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 1: so she gives the two younger Sputan girls fifty thousand 195 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: rubles and tells them to get the fuck out of dodge. 196 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: She tells them they're going to be imprisoned. Shit's going down. 197 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,319 Speaker 1: They better just get out and save them. So else, 198 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 1: being you know, smart girls, they absolutely listen to what 199 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: Alexandra says and they flee with the help of Boris Soloviev, 200 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: who who is a fucking arsehole because he tries to 201 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: cash in on the missing moment of the thing by 202 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: hiring girls to pretend to be like Anastasia, you know that, 203 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 1: the whole, the whole, mythod but her still being alive, 204 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: they yeah, dick move. So Maria she marries Boris and 205 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: I'm not going to say that Sloviev. She marries him, 206 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: and they have two daughters, and they who they name 207 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: Tatiana and Maria, named after the Grand duchesses her friends. 208 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: So they flee to Europe and this is all that's 209 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: left for Maria in her life. She has her two daughters, 210 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: and she has Soloviev, her mom and her brother. Her 211 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:00,040 Speaker 1: mother and brother disappear in the Soviet labor camps, the 212 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: fucking gulags in Siberia, and her sister dies under mysterious circumstances. 213 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 1: So some say she like starved to death. Others say 214 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,839 Speaker 1: that she was poisoned. We're not, We're not entirely sure, 215 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: but old bull bull will get that and it again. 216 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: So in nineteen twenty six, Boris Oliviev dies of tuberculosis 217 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: or consumption as it would have been known back then, 218 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 1: and she has to find a way to support herself 219 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 1: and her two daughters. There's no widow's pension her shit 220 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: back then, and she uses the only thing she has 221 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: to her advantage, her name. So, although we're not a 222 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 1: dancer by any stretch of the imagination, because she's got 223 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: a very famous name, which is incredibly rare in the area, 224 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: she gets a job dancing in a cabaret because she's like, yes, 225 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: money please, because you know, she's got fucking mouths to 226 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: feat And she ends up taking dance lessons and she 227 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: had to sort of hone her performance, and she's in 228 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: this act where people are dressed up as her father 229 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: and his murderers in the re enact the murder of 230 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: her dad in front of her, Like, I don't that 231 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: just seems like per taste regardless of what era you're in, 232 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Anyway, she says, fuck this 233 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: for a game of soldiers and literally runs away to 234 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: join a circus. So, yeah, she's part of a traveling 235 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: circus going through Europe, basically cashing in all her chips, 236 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: using her last name to her advantage, you know, basically 237 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 1: using the resputant name to get as many gigs as 238 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: she fucking can, and you know what, good for her. 239 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: And while she's at the circus, she trains to become 240 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: a lion tamer. Now this is very much of that, 241 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:51,359 Speaker 1: it was a different time. Then she becomes a fucking sensation, 242 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: and she very cleverly bills herself as performing magic overwhelmed beasts, 243 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: just as her father does weated men. The other way 244 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: she build herself was the daughter of the famous mad 245 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: monk whose feats in Russia astonished the world. Like, yes, 246 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: use everything to your advantage, you may as well. So 247 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: when she's in a circus, when she's like doing shit 248 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: with the animals, she gets asked like, are you know 249 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: not scared of being in a cage, to which she responds, 250 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: why not? I have been in a cage with Bolsheviks. 251 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: So the circus trip goes to America, so she's in 252 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: the state. They're traveling around, and fuck, here's what happens. 253 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: So the circus is traveling around the US and Maria 254 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: gets mauled by a fucking bear in nineteen thirty five, 255 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: but even so, she stays with the circus until it 256 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: gets to Miami, and then she just quits because fair enough. 257 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: And Maria at this point is very aware of what 258 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: grumblings can lead to, of the horror of war. So 259 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: by in eineteen thirty eight, world War two is in 260 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 1: full swing and she's trying to get her daughters over 261 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: to the States and out of Europe. But both of 262 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 1: her daughters are denied entry to the US and Maria 263 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: is ordered to leave the country within ninety days. Customs 264 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: are like, get the fuck out. Being a smart okay 265 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: that she is. Maria marries a childhood friend of hers, 266 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: Gregory Bernardsky. She knew bernard Sky because he was a 267 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: former member of the White Russian Army and then a 268 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: crazy random happenstance they had bumped into each other. Even 269 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: though their marriage didn't last, she was able to become 270 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:38,640 Speaker 1: a US citizen after they divorced. So yes, world War 271 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: two is in full swing and she does her judy. 272 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: She becomes a riveter like Rosie the Riveter that yeah, anyway, 273 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 1: and she stays, you know, doing factory work until about 274 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty five, which is when like the red scare 275 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: is really building. So basically, a lot of Western countries 276 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 1: were really terrified of communism, like to the point where 277 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: like not just communism, Marxism, Leninism, communism, socialism, the whole 278 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: thing everything, they put it all into one blanket, and 279 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:18,679 Speaker 1: as such they were like, oh yeah, actually, and so 280 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: they were accusing Maria Resputmin of being a communist, which 281 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: really fucking pissed her off because it was the Bolsheviks 282 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:32,439 Speaker 1: and the whole communism thing, which is the reason that 283 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 1: her friends were murdered, that her mother and brother were killed, 284 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 1: and that she had to flee her home. This woman 285 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: may have been a lot of things, but she was 286 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 1: not a fucking communist. So Maria retires and moves to 287 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: La surviving along social security benefits, teaching Russian and babysitting. 288 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: She did do like a couple of interviews and stuff. 289 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: You know, she claims to be a psychic, and this 290 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 1: is glorious. She says that she's a psychic and that 291 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,400 Speaker 1: Betty Ford spoke to her in a dream. The other 292 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,640 Speaker 1: thing she does is she writes a bunch of books 293 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 1: about her father and that so she says that when 294 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: she was writing books, when she wrote these books about 295 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 1: her dad, that it wasn't for her to make money, 296 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: it was so she could clear her father's name. And 297 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 1: when you read these books, you can really see that, 298 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: you can see that everything is painted with pure I 299 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: don't want to say optimism, but like rose tinted glasses. 300 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: It really paints her father as a complete more of 301 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: a saint effectively. But yeah, like he may not have 302 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: been a magical evil with Berryman, but he wasn't a saint. 303 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 5: So when she writes her last book was Putting the 304 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,159 Speaker 5: Man Behind the Myth in seventy seven, and she, you know, 305 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,719 Speaker 5: she fills up with her own memories and you know, 306 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 5: diary entries and basically her time living in Russia. 307 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: And but lots of people just really weren't convinced. They 308 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: thought she was bullshitting because especially around this time, lots 309 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: of people had been coming forward stating that they were 310 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,439 Speaker 1: like one of the missing Romanovs, usually Anastasia. But it 311 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 1: wasn't just the Romanovs that people were pretending to be. 312 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: A bunch of people came forward pretending to be the 313 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 1: heir of for Sputin. Now, this was kind of easy 314 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: to do at the time because no one was really 315 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: sure how many children he had. At least now now 316 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:28,640 Speaker 1: that all the records are unsealed, we can see them. 317 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 1: The researchers were able to find this information, and on 318 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 1: the twenty seventh of September nineteen seventy seven, Maria Rasputin 319 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: passes away from natural causes, and so ends the story 320 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: of Maria Resputin. So what have we learned today? That 321 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: sometimes the more fascinating people use everything you can to 322 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: your advantage, especially if you're in a situation that has 323 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:59,679 Speaker 1: that puts you on a lower rung. Like you if 324 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 1: you need to step up that ladder, if you need 325 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 1: to get up those stairs, you hold on to the handrail. 326 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: You do what you can. And this kind of host 327 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: for everything. You should be able to utilize all the 328 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 1: cards in your deck, you know, and not just because 329 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: I'm not saying like, like I know we have a 330 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 1: habit of being like, oh, I don't want to ask 331 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: them or I don't want to like I'm really bad 332 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: for that. Actually I'm really bad at promoting myself. I'm 333 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,400 Speaker 1: like fucking worse of promoting myself because I don't want 334 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: to bother people. I feel like it's a bother you know. 335 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 1: I feel like it's like and I need to get 336 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,439 Speaker 1: out of that headspace. It's like, No, you should be 337 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 1: able to message these people, you know in these positions 338 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: and go, hey want to share this, or hey, I 339 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: have an idea for you. Do you want to do that? 340 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: But I I just don't want to be a dick. 341 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: Like if you have a skill or if you have 342 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: a route that is open to you, unless you're a 343 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 1: straight white rich man, in which case use that to 344 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 1: help other people, because fuck you and your privilege. Anyway, 345 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: that is what you've learn today. So it is recommendation time, 346 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: and we are going to recommend we who'se we? I 347 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: am going to recommend listening. I think you should listen 348 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: to the song Resputin by Bonnie m which his great 349 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: grandchildren could have been dancing to that. It's all I'm saying. 350 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: And watching I am. I am a cheesy Christmas movie watcher. 351 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: I will watch all of them all of the time. 352 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 1: There's one on Netfli's called Single All the Way. I 353 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:40,479 Speaker 1: recommend it absolutely one hundred percent. So reading reading wise, 354 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 1: you know what, read your Christmas list, and if there 355 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: isn't a donation to somebody on it, if you can 356 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 1: afford it, you know, donate to something. Are we fiver 357 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: or something if you have it, Donate to a charity, 358 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,719 Speaker 1: Donate to somebody who needs it. And I really need 359 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,400 Speaker 1: to blow my nose now. We get really, really Daisily, 360 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna wait to you farewell, and I shall 361 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:06,680 Speaker 1: say goodbye adios. Au revoir of Weidas End My Friends 362 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 1: a Babba