Case file · Apparition / miracle
Rasputin's telegram from Pokrovskoye
When the haemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei seemed to be dying in October 1912, Rasputin cabled from his Siberian village that the boy would not die; Alexei recovered.
1912 CE · 57.24, 66.79 · status: disputed
The account
The episode sealed the empress's faith in the Siberian healer, born in Pokrovskoye on the Tura river.
The sceptical view
Historians point to the natural course of the haemorrhage and to the calming effect of the message on the household.