his command.# Nicolas' police informed him of these rumors and Rasputin was banished to the provinces.# No sooner had Rasputin left than another bleeding crisis almost killed Alexei.# Rasputin's influence over the boy guaranteed the monk's return to St. Petersburg.# His position in the imperial circle was never again challenged.#
             Rasputin's greatest ally lay with the Alexandra Fydorovna, the tsarina of Russia. Alexandra had been, much in her life surrounded with mystics and prophetic ministers who prayed on her superstitious beliefs, this was not discontinued when she met and married Nicholas II.# During her first few years with the Tsar the pressure was on to produce a male heir which would lead her back to her old ways, looking for spiritual answers in the mystics. # These answers would be fed by an onslaught of holy men brought to the tsarina by the "black princesses", Militsa and Anastasia, the Montenegrin princesses who had married into her company.# It was under the recommendation of the Grand Duchesses and Alexandra's good friend, Anna Vyrubova that Rasputin was summoned to appear before Alexandra. #
             After healing Alexei on his second visit, Rasputin would become a very important to Alexandra.# The tsars now summoned him to the palace secretly, for Rasputin was warned by Militsa and Anastasia to not seek console with the tsars without them.# Rasputin defied them and began to visit the palace without seeking their permission.# This rebellious behavior by Rasputin began to cause a rift between the black princess' and Alexandra.# The began to speak against Rasputin to the their very powerful hu
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