Grigori Rasputin

@Mystical Faith Healer, Facts and Childhood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Rasputin was a Russian farmer-turned-healer, famous for his relationship with the Tsar’s family Drowning Russian Miscellaneous Aquarius Celebrities Grigori Rasputin was a Russian faith healer in the 19th century, who was known to have visions. Having gained popularity with his prophecies, he soon became a close associate and confidante of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Tsarina Alexandra. Initially, he impressed other members of the imperial family, and churchmen. However, when Nicholas began entrusting the psychic with too much power, people turned against Rasputin, and several attempts were made to defile him. The Tsar's confidence in the spiritual healer remained strong, since on various occasions, the former's son Alexei had been cured by the ascetic. He even survived an assassination attempt, after which Nicholas II vested all advisory powers in the hands of the healer. As a spiritual person of faith, he travelled to many places, including Constantinople, Beirut, Jaffa and Jerusalem. For a brief period of time, he exerted so much control on the Tsarina, that many ministers were appointed and dismissed for no apparent reason. Finally, it was a member of the Tsar’s family, Prince Yusupov, who executed a well-planned murder of the healer. It is said, that even his own death was predicted by Grigori, which he mentioned to the Tsar in a letter, also prophesying that Russia would suffer if the murder was committed by a member of the royal family

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Birthday: January 21, 1869 Died on: December 30, 1916 Nationality: Russian Famous: Mystical Faith Healer, Peasant, Miscellaneous Spouses: Praskovia Fedorovna Dubrovina Siblings: Andrei Rasputin, Dmitri Rasputin, Evdokiya Rasputina, Glikeriya Rasputina, Maria Rasputina Known as: Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin Information Detail Birthday January 21, 1869 Died on December 30, 1916 Nationality Russian Famous Mystical Faith Healer, Peasant, Miscellaneous Spouses Praskovia Fedorovna Dubrovina Siblings Andrei Rasputin, Dmitri Rasputin, Evdokiya Rasputina, Glikeriya Rasputina, Maria Rasputina Known as Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin Childrens Dmitri Rasputin, Maria Rasputin, Varvara Rasputin Cause of death Drowning Birth Place Pokrovskoye Religion Russian Orthodox Church Height 193cm Gender Male Father Efim Rasputin Mother Anna Rasputina Sun Sign Aquarius Born in Pokrovskoye Famous as Peasant, Mystical Faith healer Died at Age 47

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On February 2, 1887 Rasputin got married to Praskovia Fyodorovna Dubrovina. The healer and his wife had two sons, Dmitri, Varvara and a daughter, Maria. Unsplash Personal Life

In the month of July, 1914, an attempt to assassinate Rasputin was made by a masked woman. The murder attempt stemmed from increasing jealousy at the healer’s close ties with the Tsar. Grigori survived the assassination after a doctor performed surgery on him to save his life. Unsplash Personal Life

Later, it was Saint Iliodor and statesman Vladimir Dzhunkovsky, who admitted to having planned the murder. Unsplash Personal Life

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was born in the Pokrovskoye village of the Russian Tobolsk Governorate, Siberia, on January 21 (O.S. January 9), 1869. His father, Yefim Yakovlevich, was an Orthodox Christian coachman and peasant. The child had eight other siblings, of who, only Feodosiya, Grigori's sister, was alive. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Not much is known about the young boy's childhood, except for the fact that even at an early age, he was known for being clairvoyant. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1892, Grigori suddenly left home one day, and lived in a monastery for many months. Brother Makary, a sage living near the monastery inspired Rasputin to live a life of austerity. Unsplash Later Life

Soon, he became a religious ascetic when he claimed to have seen 'Our Lady of Kazan', who is believed to be a form of Mother Mary. By the year 1900, he had become well-known as a wanderer, also known as a 'strannik'. Unsplash Later Life

In 1903, he travelled to see the 'Monastery of the Caves' in the Ukranian capital of Kiev. In Russia, his claims of having visions made him a mystical phenomenon amongst the elite class and the bishop. Unsplash Later Life

Rasputin also planned to request the Orthodox Saint John of Kronstadt to provide financial help for constructing a church in the village of Kazan. During his trip, he put up at the ‘Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery’, where he got acquainted to Saint Hermogenes. Unsplash Later Life

Grigori's spiritual powers also impressed Russian archbishop Theophanes of Poltava, Grand Duchess Milica of Montenegro, and Princess Anastasia. In 1905, the Grand Duchess Milica introduced the faith healer to the Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, and Tsarina Alexandra. Unsplash Later Life

Rasputin was a popular faith healer who treated Prince Alexei on several occasions, and after earning the trust of the Tsar’s family, played a significant role in Russian politics. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	January 21, 1869
Died on	December 30, 1916
Nationality	Russian
Famous	Mystical Faith Healer, Peasant, Miscellaneous
Spouses	Praskovia Fedorovna Dubrovina
Siblings	Andrei Rasputin, Dmitri Rasputin, Evdokiya Rasputina, Glikeriya Rasputina, Maria Rasputina
Known as	Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
Childrens	Dmitri Rasputin, Maria Rasputin, Varvara Rasputin
Cause of death	Drowning
Birth Place	Pokrovskoye
Religion	Russian Orthodox Church
Height	193cm
Gender	Male
Father	Efim Rasputin
Mother	Anna Rasputina
Sun Sign	Aquarius
Born in	Pokrovskoye
Famous as	Peasant, Mystical Faith healer
Died at Age	47

Grigori Rasputin

Russian

Jan 21, 1869

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Pokrovskoye