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Grigori Rasputin was a self-proclaimed healer and mystic who gained enormous influence over Russia's royal family in the early 1900s, particularly through his apparent ability to help the young heir's medical condition. His controversial presence at court and his role in major political decisions made him a central, polarizing figure in the final years before the Russian Revolution.
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- 1869-01-09
- Died
- 1916-12-17
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- 1
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- My Thoughts and Visions
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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin 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.
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- Battle of the Psychics — Self (Archive Footage)2007
- The Most Evil Men and Women in History2001
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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1869 – 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained considerable influence in the final years of the Russian Empire.
Rasputin was born to a family of peasants in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye, located within Tyumensky Uyezd in Tobolsk Governorate (present-day Yarkovsky District in Tyumen Oblast). He had a religious conversion experience after embarking on a pilgrimage to a monastery in 1897 and has been described as a monk or as a strannik (wanderer or pilgrim), though he held no official position in the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1903 or in the winter of 1904–1905, he travelled to Saint Petersburg and captivated several religious and social leaders, eventually becoming a prominent figure in Russian society. In November 1905, Rasputin met Nicholas II and his empress consort, Alexandra Feodorovna.
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