Perhaps the most infamous of all Rasputin exploits (and the one that led to Dzhunkovsky’s downfall) occurred in the spring of 1915, when the staretz traveled to Moscow, ostensibly to pray at the tombs of the patriarchs in the Kremlin. But there was much more fun to be had than that. “I was at Yar, the most luxurious night haunt of Moscow, with some English visitors,” reported Robert Bruce Lockhart. “As we watched the musical performance in the main hall, there was a violent fracas in one of the private rooms. Wild shrieks of a woman, a man’s curses, broken glass and the banging of doors. Headwaiters rushed upstairs. The manager sent for the police… But the row and roaring continued… The cause of the disturbance was Rasputin – drunk and lecherous, and neither police nor management dared evict him.”
Outrageous as the story was, Lockhart only told half of it. When the police arrived, Rasputin dropped his trousers and began waving his genitals in the faces of other diners. And that, he declared, was just how he behaved in front of the tsar. As for Alexandra, he bragged that he could do anything liked with “the old girl.” Finally the drunken staretz was dragged away, “snarling and vowing vengeance.”
Source:
Farquhar, Michael. “Chapter 14 – Nicholas II (1894-1917): Gliding Down a Precipice.” Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014. 283-84. Print.
Further Reading:
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Russian: Григо́рий Ефи́мович Распу́тин)
Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, KCMG
Alexandra Feodorovna / Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine / Saint Alexandra the Passion Bearer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Feodorovna_(Alix_of_Hesse)
Im so glad the workers of the world overthrew this bastard. You may criticize the communists because of trumps antisemitism, but at least everyone was finally equal