Rasputin’s wanderings got him so you can St. Petersburg (1903), in which he was welcomed by Theophan, inspector of your own spiritual Academy from St. Petersburg, and you may Hermogen, bishop from Saratov. Inside the 1905 Rasputin is actually introduced for the royal loved ones, and in 1908 he had been summoned to the castle out of Nicholas and you will Alexandra throughout the one of the hemophiliac son’s hemorrhaging attacks.