End of Days by Sylvia Browne

Posted by admin_akashic on Aug 9th, 2022 in Stories

World War I was raging, and in 1915 Nicholas traveled to take command of the troops on the eastern front. Whether or not this was Rasputin’s idea is a matter of debate, but there’s no doubt about the effect of Nicholas’s decision: his absence left Tsarina Alexandra as the sole ruler of Russia, which essentially left Rasputin in a position of great power and influence over her and, as a result, the entire country. Among his first priorities was the removal of his detractors from positions of significance within the government, replacing them with his proven loyalists. To this day it’s a widely held belief that Rasputin, and Alexandra’s almost slavish reliance on his advice, was directly responsible for the loss of confidence in the imperial government.

It was decided by a growing number of Rasputin’s enemies, both outside and within the government, that he had to be eliminated. He wasn’t about to step aside, nor was the tsarina about to allow it. And so, on the night of December 16, 1916, Rasputin was invited to the home of Prince Felix Yussupov for the ostensible purpose of meeting Yussupov’s wife, Irina. The evening proved to be an odd testament to Rasputin’s power. He unwittingly ate his share of cakes laced with poison and drank his share of alcohol laced with poison. To Yussupov’s and his fellow conspirators’ irritation, neither had the slightest affect on Rasputin, so Yussupov resorted to shooting him in the back. Rasputin fell to the floor. Yussupov bent over him to make sure he was dead, at which moment Rasputin leaped up and attacked Yussupov.

Yussupov managed to escape Rasputin and shoot four more bullets at him, one of those shots hitting Rasputin in the head. For good measure, Yussupov then proceeded to beat Rasputin with a club until there was no more movement or sound coming from him. Yussupov and his fellow conspirators wrapped Rasputin’s body in a curtain and threw it into the Neva River—incredibly, the death was listed as a drowning, since water in Rasputin’s lungs established that he was still breathing when he was dropped into the dark river.

It was later discovered that in December of 1916 Rasputin wrote a letter to Tsarina Alexandra predicting that he would be murdered before the first of January, 1917. He then added:

If I am killed by common assassins then you have nothing to fear. But if I am murdered by nobles, and if they shed myblood, their hands will remain soiled. Brothers will kill brothers and there will be no nobles in the country.

The remainder of the letter clarified Rasputin’s prophecy: if he was murdered by the poor, the royal family would prosper. But if he was killed at the hands of princes, the tsarina and her entire family would be assassinated in less than two years.

A year and a half after the death of Rasputin at the hands of princes, Nicholas, Alexandra, and their children were executed by Bolshevik guards on July 16, 1918.

It is no surprise that the controversy surrounding the life of Rasputin, who came to be known as the “mad monk,” continues to this day. There are those who believe that despite his fairly despicable personal behavior, he was a genuinely gifted healer and psychic, a prophetic adviser to Tsarina Alexandra who indisputably saved Alexei’s life. Others argue just as passionately that Rasputin was a con artist and fraud who used his charisma and talent for hypnosis to endear himself to the most powerful family in Russia and create the illusion of healing in a sick, highly suggestible young boy.

Wherever the truth lies, many of his prophecies have survived since the middle of the First World War, including this one involving his vision of the coming Apocalypse:

Mankind is going in the direction of the catastrophe. The less able ones will be guiding the car. This will happen in Russia, in France, in Italy and in other places. The humanity will be squashed by the lunatics’ roar. The wisdom will be chained. The ignorant and the prepotent will dictate the laws to the wise and to the humble person. So, most of the humanity will believe in the powerful ones and no more in God. The punishment of God will arrive late, but it will be tremendous. And it will arrive before our century ends. Then, finally the wisdom will be free from the chains and the man will return entirely to God, as the baby who goes to his mother. In this way, mankind will arrive on the terrestrial paradise.