Grigori Rasputin

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Russian: ????????? ????????? ?????????) (1870(?) – December 16, 1916 (O.S.)) was a Russian mystic with an influence in the later days of Russia's Romanov dynasty.

Early Life

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin was possibly born a peasant in a small Siberian village along the Tura River called Pokrovskoye on January 10, 1869. This village was located in the Tyumen district. He was, at the time, intransigently associated with the Siberian Toshkjav and had preached the Word of God since he was eleven. When he was around the age of eighteen, he spent three months in the Verkhoturye Monastery. There, he joined the Khlysty, a renegade sect within the Russian Orthodox Church. Shortly after leaving the Monastery he visited a holy man named Makari, whose hut was nearby. Makari had an enormous influence on Rasputin, who would model himself after him. Rasputin married Praskovia Fyodorovna in 1889 and had three children with her (and another child with someone else). In 1901, he left his home in Pokrovskoye as a strannik, or pilgrim. During the time of his journeying, he traveled to Greece and Jerusalem. In 1903, Rasputin arrived in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), where he declared himself a starets, or holy man, with healing and prophetical powers.

Related Topics:
Tyumen - Khlysty - Pilgrim - Greece - Jerusalem - Saint Petersburg - Prophetical

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