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noun - Siberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II
RASPUTIN - Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (; Russian: [rorj jfimvt rsputn]; 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1869 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916) was a Russian...
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Around midnight on Dec. 29/30, 1916:Prince Felix Yusupov & pals, using poison, a gun, a club & drowning |
March 16, 1923:"Russians continuing to kill" him: "Hirsute mystic to reach demise 'no later than 1925'" |
In 1916, his assassins included a prince and a grand duke |
This "Mad Monk" convinced Alexandra of Russia he had mystical powers |
In order to kill this "Mad Monk", Russian conservatives had to poison, shoot & drown him |
Christopher Lee, Edmund Purdom, Gert Frobe & Lionel Barrymore all monkeyed around as this "Mad Monk" |
This mystic ate his last meal at the home of Prince Feliks Yusupov, one of the men who killed him |
In the Yusupov Palace, an eerie wax figure of this mystic dominates the room in which he was poisoned |
Grolier says this man "contributed directly to the collapse of the Romanov dynasty shortly after his own death" |
Alan Rickman played sensible Col. Brandon in "Sense And Sensibility" & this "mad monk" in an HBO film |
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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (; Russian: [rorj jfimvt rsputn]; 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1869 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia. * Born to a peasant family in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye, Rasputin had a religious conversion experience after taking a pilgrimage to a monastery in 1897. He has been described as a monk or as a "strannik" (wanderer, or pilgrim), though he held no official position in the Russian Orthodox Church. After traveling to St. Petersburg, either in 1903 or the winter of 19045, Rasputin captivated some church and social leaders. He became a society figure, and met the Tsar in November 1905. * In late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a healer for the Tsar and his wife Alexandra's son Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia and was Nicholas' only heir (Tsarevitch). At court, he was |