Specifically regarding the son of the Tsar and his hemophilia. It seems clear that many educated people regarded Rasputin as having miraculous ability to heal. Even the boys physician said he understood why they thought this since Rasputin would appear and spit and the boy would be immediately better, which couldn’t be explained medically at the time.

It seems hard to imagine that Rasputin was so bold as to knowingly try to trick the Tsar and his family and just happened to get lucky and have the boy healed over and over after he performed his scam.

So have any historians gathered information and tried to provide an explanation for what happened? Perhaps Rasputin had actually somehow discovered how to stop the boy’s bleeding in a way unknown to the medical community of the time?