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Grigori Rasputin

Born
21 January 1869
Died
30 December 1916, aged about 47
Record
Wikidata Q43989 · Wikipedia

Victim in The Killing of Rasputin

Siberian peasant and faith healer close to the imperial family. Dates are Gregorian; in the Julian calendar then used in Russia, 9 January 1869 and 17 December 1916.

1916–1917 · Moika Palace, Petrograd · Never caught

Poisoned cakes, a man who would not die, a body under the ice: the famous story comes from one of Rasputin's killers. The autopsy tells a plainer one. Read the case.

Dated events

  1. Rasputin is born in Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk province (9 January Old Style).

  2. Rasputin is first received by Nicholas II and Alexandra.

  3. After Rasputin telegraphs a prayer during Alexei's near-fatal illness at Spała, the empress's faith in him becomes unshakeable.

  4. Khioniya Guseva stabs Rasputin outside his house in Pokrovskoye; he recovers.

  5. Nicholas takes personal command of the army, leaving Alexandra, and with her Rasputin, more influence in Petrograd.

  6. Purishkevich attacks Rasputin's influence in a speech in the Duma.

  7. Rasputin is killed at the Yusupov palace on the Moika in the early hours, and his body is pushed under the ice of the Little Nevka.

  8. Rasputin is buried at Tsarskoye Selo; Dmitri Pavlovich is sent to the Persian front and Yusupov to his estate.

  9. Nicholas II abdicates; soon afterwards soldiers exhume Rasputin's body and burn it.