Was raspytin gay

One of the playable characters in World Heroes is Rasputin. He is roughly based on Grigori Rasputin, the infamous 20th century Russian mystic and faith healer. The game’s Rasputin is a 13th century Russian philosopher, alchemist, and sorcerer, according to one Wikipedia page. Other game wikis describe him as “the leader of a pansexual passion cult” and point out he was born in the 19th century.

He is often assumed to be homosexual because of his effeminate mannerisms (see image below).

He also invites players to spend the nighttime in his Garden of Love.

This may be a reference to his unique move, called “The Secret Garden” in which he pulls the other fighters (nearly all men) into bushes. Hearts emanate from the bushes. The truth that it only works with male fighters have lead some to offer this as definitive evidence of Rasputin’s sexuality. The video below shows this relocate in action.

Citations:

1. Bazooka TV (2010, November 27). World Heroes – Rasputin. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI3qfvyZlug
2. Bilgi Dunyasi. (2014, January 4). World Heroes Perfect- Super Moves/ FAQs: Rasput
   

   Rasputin is well known as the evil monk who allegedly exerted a hypnotic influence over the last Tsar of Russia – and his family – but was then murdered by jealous aristocrats. A familiar enough story! But was Rasputin an LGBT holy man? Did he have a gay bond with a Russian prince? And was he murdered because that love affair turned sour? The evidence is stronger than you might think…

   Trigger warning: There is an image below of the dead Rasputin taken at the second of his murder.

   Death of Rasputin – stabbing, shooting, poisoning, etc

   Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916) encapsulates the decadence of Russia’s Tsarist empire before the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 swept it away. A charlatan who mesmerised the royal family, exploiting their personal weaknesses for power and financial obtain. There had always been holy men hanging around the tsars for centuries but in the preliminary years of the 20th century, his presence at the royal court seemed like a medieval throwback to the tsar’s enemies.

   Rasputin enjoyed the confidence of Tsar Nicholas II but to others he was a filthy peasant, despised by the nobility as a low-born fraud.

   From 1906, he ac

   8 Surprising Facts About Grigori Rasputin, Russia's "Mad Monk"

   Grigori Rasputin is one of history’s most mysterious and reviled figures. Born in a small Siberian village, Pokrovskoye, in 1869, Rasputin was the only one of his seven siblings to persist early childhood. He received no formal education and didn’t learn to interpret or write until he was an adult. Married at the age of 17, he seemed destined for a life of anonymity in the Siberian hinterlands. But when Rasputin heard the call of God in 1897–or, according to some accounts, fled town to escape punishment for horse theft–he position out on an unlikely path that made him the most notorious guy in Imperial Russia. 

   After spending time at a monastery in the Ural Mountains, Rasputin embarked on a series of religious pilgrimages, perhaps making it as far as Athos, Greece, the center of Eastern Orthodox monastic life. By the early 1900s, he had gained a reputation as a starets, or holy man, whose mystical abilities could cure physical and spiritual ailments. Rasputin’s travels eventually took him to St. Petersburg, where he impressed local church leaders and gained the support of the Montenegrin princesses, who were married

   Nicholas II and Rasputin sexual relationship

   I don’t believe the russian society women slept with Rasputin. I ponder it was fake news. Everything in Russia was highly politicized, just appreciate it is today in the US. Remember the FBI releasing a totally fake ass memo about emails right before the 2016 election in arrange to make sure the Witch Heretic Non-cookie-Baker Bitch couldn’t the be president, despite what the people wanted? Same deal. Rogue agents spreading shit sandwiches all around the dining room in 1916 Russia.

   Russian secret police had agents in it who hated the German Alexandra & wanted to take her & her friends down. In early 20th century Russia there were ultra conservatives, ultra monarchists, parliamentarians, socialists, communists, ultra Russian orthodox, western-leaning Russians, imperialists, colonialists, secularists, boyars, populists, German agents, British agents — everybody was angling for a piece of the piroshka at that time. It was a mess. The Russian empire was too big, there wasn’t enough arable area to feed the people, land was being stolen from Jews & peasants, everything was extremely capitalistic. Money & power were everything. The French, British,