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Outline for Research Paper **I.** Introduction **A**. Background- **B**. Thesis Statement The calling on and the influence of a spiritual healer named Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, the Tsarvich Alexei's hemophilia, and World War I all led to the demise of the Romanov family. ** II **. The murder of the Romanovs ( **First subtopic ** ) **A**. How they were killed. ( First Point) **1.** They were lined up along a wall of the Impativ house and shot until dead. ( Supporting evidence) **2.** It took a while to kill them, simply because the women of the Romanov family had jewels sewn into their garments, which the bullets bounced off of. ( Supporting evidence) **B.** Where they were placed after their murder ( Second Point) **1.** Once all killed, they were wrapped in sheets and loaded into the back of a huge truck. ( Supporting evidence) **2.** After they were unloaded from the truck, they were stripped naked, doused in sulfuric acid to disfigure them from being recognized, and thrown into a man-made pit. ( Supporting evidence) ** III **. Alexei’s flaw and the calling of Grigori Efimovich Rasputin. ( **Second subtopic ** ) **A**. After desperate tries by the Romanovs, they finally produced a male heir, Tsarvich Alexei, but he had one fatal flaw. ( First Point) **1.** Alexei had hemophilia, a rare blood disorder that caused his blood to not clot, which meant that the tiny Tsarvich could easily bleed out and die. ( Supporting evidence) **2.** Alexandra and Nicholas had no idea what to do for their son, so they protected, and his deadly secret, from the Russian community. ( Supporting evidence) **B.** Recommended by a family friend, Alexandra called upon Grigori Rasputin, a healer, to try to help her son. ( Second Point) **1.** The first time that Rasputin visited the boy, during a nasty bleeding spell, he stopped. ( Supporting evidence) **2**. Alexandra thought that Rasputin was the answer to her fevered prayers to save her only son. ( Supporting evidence) ** IV **. Rasputin’s involvement in the Russian government. ( **Third subtopic ** ) **A**. Alexandra thought that Rasputin was a saint, and Alexei’s only way of survival. ( First Point) **1.** Since she thought that he was heaven-sent, she kept him around the family, while showering him with gifts. ( Supporting evidence) **2.** After a little while, Rasputin became a respected, at least by Alexandra, member of the Romanov family. ( Supporting evidence) **B.** Who Rasputin really was and how the people reacted to him. ( Second Point) **1.** While Alexandra thought that Rasputin was a saint and a holy man, he really was just a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He was a drinker and a womanizer, but Alexandra never knew his true self. ( Supporting evidence) **2**. The people saw his true self, and didn’t know why he was such a high up in the Imperial Family when he was such a wicked man. (Supporting evidence) ** V **. World War I. ( **Fourth subtopic ** ) **A**. Everyone in Russia knew that they were loosing World War I. ( First Point) **1.** They simply wanted action from their government. ( Supporting evidence) **2.** As a result of them loosing, Tsar Nicholas went to the battlefront to try to help his country. ( Supporting evidence) **B.** Rasputin took over. ( Second Point) **1.** Once Nicholas left, Rasputin started trying to pass laws, and since Alexandra didn’t want to upset him, she automatically agreed with everything he proposed. ( Supporting evidence) **2**. Rasputin had massive amounts of control over Alexandra, and she had control over Nicholas, so he would normally just pass things just to appease his wife, which would satisfy Rasputin. So when he left, Rasputin was able to get more things done, since he could just tell Alexandra, and she’d make sure it happened. ( Supporting evidence) ** VI. ** What led up to the overthrow and eventual death of the Romanov family was, Alexei’s hemophilia, the calling on and involvement of Rasputin in the government, and World War I.