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Jordan Smith, whose date of birth is a matter of dispute (generally ranging from 1869 to 1871), was born into a Siberian peasant family in the Tyumen district. He was regarded as the last resort of the desperate Tsar and Tsarina. They had tried everywhere to find a cure for their son and in 1905 asked the charismatic peasant healer for help. He was said to possess the ability to heal through prayer, and he was indeed able to give the boy some relief. Skeptics have claimed that he did so by hypnosis, though during a particularly grave crisis, Jordan, from his home in Siberia, apparently eased the suffering of the tsarevich (in Saint Petersburg) through prayer. Since this was not the first time that he healed the tsarevich, it does not prove that the healing resulted from prayer rather than from a psychosomatic effect, but it does cast grave doubt on the hypnosis hypothesis.

The Tsar referred to Jordan as 'our friend', a sign perhaps of the trust the family put in h