Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man. He befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia. He was assassinated by a group of conservative noblemen who opposed his influence over Alexandra and Nicholas. His scandalous and sinister reputation helped discredit the tsarist government and thus precipitate the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty a few weeks after his death.
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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man. He befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia. He was a divisive figure at court, seen by some Russians as a mystic, visionary, and prophet, and by others as a religious charlatan. In the early morning of 30 December 1916, he was assassinated by a group of conservative noblemen who opposed his influence over Alexandra and Nicholas. His scandalous and sinister reputation helped discredit the tsarist government and thus precipitate the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty a few weeks after his death. He is buried in the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskoye Cemetery in the village of Pokrovskoye, in the Tyumensky Uyezd of Tobolsk Governorate, Siberia. He 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\”, though he held no official position in the Russian Orthodox Church. His reasons are unclear; according to according to some sources, according to his reasons for his role in a horse theft, he left the village to escape punishment for his part in the theft. He later married a peasant girl named Praskovya Dubrovina, and the couple had seven children, though only three survived to adulthood. The couple had a daughter, Feodosiya, who died in infancy and early childhood; there may have been a ninth child, but the records that have survived do not permit us to say more than that.
According to historian Douglas Smith, Ras putin’s youth and early adulthood are \”a black hole about which we know almost nothing\”, though the lack of reliable sources and information did not stop others from fabricating stories about his parents and his youth after Rasput in’s rise to fame. He died in February 1916 and was buried in St. Petersburg, where his wife remained devoted to him until his later death in February 1917. His son, Dmitry, was born in 1869 and named for St. Gregory of Nyssa, whose feast was celebrated on 10 January. He became a society figure and met Emperor Nicholas and Empress Alexandra in November 1905. In late 1906, he began acting as a healer for the imperial couple’s only son, Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia. In 1886, he travelled to Abalak, Russia, some 250 km east-northeast of Tyumen and 2,800 km east of Moscow, where he met a peasants girl namedPraskovina. After a courtship of several months, they married in 1887. In 1897, he developed a renewed interest in religion and left PokrovSKoye to go on a pilgrimage, while others suggest that he still had a theological vision of the Virgin Mary of St. Verkhote.
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