Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, also known as the “Mad Monk” was born January
the 21st 1896 in Pokrovskoye, Russia.1 Rasputin began as a spiritual healer who later to
many became a large reason for the failure of the Romanov Dynasty in Russia, which
resulted in ending the tradition of having a royal tsarist family. Rasputin grew up in a
little village in Pokrovskoye, where very little is known about his past life. When
Rasputin was 8 his playing with his older brother Demetri, who was 12 were playing by
a river, his brother fell and later died of pneumonia. Rasputin was extremely affected
by his brother’s death at the time, and only 2 years later did he fully manage to
recover from the incident of his brother’s death. Only then did people start to see his
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From a young age Rasputin was known to be sexually proficient. His
surname was changed to Rasputin which was Russian for ‘debauched one’. He had
many girlfriends and was known to be a ladies man, but in 1888 he married Praskovia
Fyodorovna Dubrovina, who he later had 3 children from Dmitri, Maria, Varvara.
Rasputin’s wife agreed to his several affairs claiming he was man enough to having
more than one woman. 2
1"Gregory Rasputin." : Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2013.
2 "Gregory Rasputin." : Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2013.
When Rasputin was eighteen, he spent a few months in the Verkhoturye
Monastery in Siberia. He was influenced to follow a spiritual and religious path, and
during his visit there he claimed to have seen the vision of Virgin Mary. After many
years of wondering around and travelling in early 1903 Rasputin finally went to saint
Petersburg, even in the city with splendor and sophistication, Rasputin 36 year old