Rasputín: vocabulario clave en inglés con traducción y contexto

Peasants: campesinos. My family were peasants and worked very hard.

Drowned: se ahogó. Maria was not very strong and one day, while we were swimming in the river, she drowned.

Blamed: culpó (a). Nobody knew how it happened, but my mother blamed me.

Breathe: respirar. He helped him breathe again and, after a few minutes, Dimitri sat up and looked around.

Theft: robo. My father told his friends about the theft of his favourite horse.

Embarrassed: avergonzados. My parents and the visitors were very embarrassed and said nothing.

Pray: rezar. The next morning, people came to make the sign of the Cross and pray in front of our house.

Cart: (de) carro. I grew up and became a cart driver like my father.

Miracles: milagros. Rumours circulated about my special powers. They called my acts, miracles.

Robe: hábito, túnica. My hair and beard grew long and I wore a black robe.

Mad: loco. Some called me the "Mad Monk".

Argue: discutir. Soon, we began to argue about religion.

Evil: diabólicas, malvadas. He immediately wrote a letter to the Church about my "evil teachings".

Court: palacio. A very beautiful woman from Tsar Nicholas' court.

Heir: heredero. He was the heir to the Romanov dynasty and they needed a healthy heir.

Trust: confiar en. He began to feel much better and the family began to trust me.

Advisor: consejero, asesor. I could also predict the future, so the Tsar began to ask my advice, and after a while, I moved to the court and became his best advisor.

Bless: bendecir a. I wanted to bless the soldiers and try and keep them safe.

Dismiss: destituir a. I used my situation to dismiss some of my enemies in the court.

Sins: pecados. I believed we could all learn humility by asking God to pardon our sins.

Stabbed: apuñaló. One of his disciples, a woman called Guseva, stabbed me in my stomach.

Poison: veneno. We served him cake and red wine, both filled with cyanide, the most deadly poison in the world.

Leaned over: me incliné sobre. I came back later and leaned over his body to see if he was dead.

Lungs: pulmones. There was water in his lungs.