I can guess which group did more to boost morale.

What's the difference between a Romanov and a prostitute?

The prostitute works.

This would not have helped them with the Rasputin issue.

To propagandise their patriotic credentials the imperial family arranged a photo opportunity for the empress and her daughters dressed in Red Cross uniforms. They had visited the wounded at military hospitals in Petrograd, as Saint Petersburg had been renamed to make it sound less German at the beginning of the war. What they did not realise was that a consignment of nurses' uniforms had fallen into the hands of city's prostitutes, who dressed in them to work the streets.

Quote from The Story of Russia, by Orlando Figes, p186.

Pretty embarrassing ngl.

*British scientist trina not to be a meme*