Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic who was highly influential in the last days of the Romanov dynasty. He was born on January 21, 1869
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Although he attended school, Rasputin remained illiterate, He evidently underwent a religious conversion at age 18, and eventually he went to the monastery at Verkhoture, where he was introduced to the Khlysty Flagellants sect.
Well, Rasputin perverted Khlysty beliefs and all that, after he was finish lefting home and wandered Mount Athos, Greece, and Jerusalem, living off donations from peasants and earning a reputation as a starets.
Donate me pls
Rasputin's wanderings took him to St. Petersburg in 1903, where he was welcomed by Theophan, inspector of the religious Academy of St. Petersburg, and Hermogen, bishop of Saratov.
After in 1905 Rasputin was introduced to the royal family, and in 1908 he was summoned to the palace of Nicholas and Alexandra
during one of their hemophiliac son's bleeding episodes. Rasputin succeeded in easing the boy's suffering probably by his hypnotic powers and, upon leaving the palace,
Upon Rasputin leaving the palace, warned the parents that the destiny of both the child and the dynasty were irrevocably linked to him, thereby setting in motion a decade of Rasputin's powerful influence on the imperial family and affairs of state.