Григо́рий Ефи́мович (Распутин) Rasputin (1869 - 1916)

Born 21 Jan 1869 in Pokrovskoye, Siberia, Russian Empire

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Died 30 Dec 1916 at age 47 in Moika Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Biography

Grigori (Распутин) Rasputin is Notable.

He was born on 21 Jan 1869 ^[1] in the small village of Pokrovskoye, along the Tura River in the Tobolsk Governorate (now Tyumen Oblast) in Siberia, Russian Empire. ^[2] He was named for St.Gregory of Nyssa, whose feast was celebrated on 10 January. ^[3]

His parents were Anna (Parshukova) and Yefim or Efim Vilkin Rasputin, born in 1842 in Pokrovskoye, ^[3] who was a peasant farmer and church elder, ^[3] who also worked as a government courier, ferrying people and goods between Tobolsk and Tyumen. ^{[3] [1]} His parents married in 1863 ^[4] and had 8 known children. Seven of their children died in infancy and early childhood. ^[4] There may have been a ninth child, Feodosiya. ^[1]

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin married on 02 Feb 1887 to Praskovia Fyodorovna Dubrovina.

Rasputin was a Russian peasant, an experienced traveler, a mystical faith healer, and trusted friend of the family of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of the Russian Empire.

He was murdered on 30 Dec 1916 in Moika Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

According to the Russian mystic's murderer himself, Prince Felix Yusupov, Rasputin consumed tea, cakes, and wine which had been laced with cyanide but he did not appear to be affected by the poison. He was then shot once in the chest and believed to be dead, but after a while, he leapt up and attacked Yusupov, who freed himself and fled. Rasputin followed and made it into the courtyard before being shot again and collapsing into a snowbank. The conspirators then wrapped Rasputin's body and dropped it into the Malaya Nevka River.

His daughter Matryona "Maria" Rasputin (1898–1977); emigrated after the October Revolution to France and then to the USA where she worked as a dancer and circus lion tamer. ^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} "Rasputin: The Untold Story" by Joseph T. Fuhrmann & Wiley in 2012; isbn#978-1-118-23985-8; p6-7; per official records, b: 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1869; bpt: following day; cited by Wikipedia: Grigori_Rasputin
2. ↑ "Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs" by Colin Wilson; Farrar, Straus in 1964; p23–26; cited by Wikipedia:Grigori_Rasputin
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} "Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs" by Douglas Smith; Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2016; isbn#978-0-374-71123-8; p14 on Google books; cited by Wikipedia:Grigori_Rasputin
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Wikipedia:Grigori_Rasputin
5. ↑ "To Kill Rasputin: The Life and Death of Grigori Rasputin" by Andrew Cook & Tempus in 2005
6. ↑ "British spy 'fired the shot that finished off Rasputin" by Karyn Miller in "The Telegraph" on 19 Sep 2004
7. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #7304586 for Grigori Efimovich Rasputin
8. ↑ "Women of the American Circus 1880–1940" by Katherine H. Adams & Michael L. Keene; p162; cited by Wikipedia:Grigori_Rasputin

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