Rasputin walked on foot like a pilgrim, the capital and monasteries of Russian Siberia, in order to acquire a reputation for holiness from which he made use of everything, even in his sexual relations. He went through deprivations to develop his willpower and hypnosis, as do the induce. His lack of culture was replaced by a prodigious memory, which allowed him to surprise not only lay or ignorant, but also scholars and even the tsarina.
In St. Petersburg he was received in the Monastery of Alexander Nevsky by the Primate John of Kronstadt, who was the first to be taken in admiration by the young disciple of Siberia, and who exclaimed that he was "a spark of God.
Many single and married women considered him holy and felt honored to be with him in bed. His fame increased daily, crowds kneeled as he entered some room: "O our Christ our Savior, pray for us sinners and miserable, God will hear you ..." Through a devout missionary he met Monsignor Theophane, Rector of the Theological Academy of St Petersburg, and confessor of the Tsarina. This honest and godly man put Rasputin under his protection. Around the Siberian prophet he soon gathered many people to the faith and the occult. Among these fervent admirers of the man of God were the Grand Duchesses of Montenegro, who together with Monsignor Theophanus presented Rasputin to the Tsar and Czarina. Theophanus, spoke of him to the Tsar in the following terms: "Gregory Efimovich is a simple man. Your Majesty will profit by listening to him, for the voice of the Russian land speaks through his lips."
    Rasputin charmed everyone with his healing remedies, which were made by Badmaiev, a Tibetan Therapist, who claimed to have brought from Tibet all the kinds of medicinal plants that he could hardly get from the sages of his native land. The tragic and successive events that took place in the Empire, such as the disastrous war with Japan, the disturbances of 1905, and the illness of Alexei Csarevich, made Czarina even more dependent on the monk Rasputin. During the fall of 1912, while the Imperial family was staying in Spala, Poland, an apparently slight accident caused a terrible hemophilia attack that endangered Alexei's life. Fathers prayed day and night in the church in Spala, a religious service was held in Moscow, the people prayed ceaselessly in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan. Rasputin, who was in constant contact with Spala, telegraphed Czarina: "God has seen your tears and heard your prayers Do not grieve: Your son will live." The next day, the temperature of the child fell, two days later being out of danger, and the Tsarina's faith in the "holy man" naturally intensified ..