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  • Birth

    Birth
    Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin
    Pokrovskoe, Russia "Grigory Rasputin." Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction. Ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2007. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 4 Oct. 2011. "Grigory Rasputin." Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction. Ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2007. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 4 Oct. 2011.
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    Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin

  • Early Life

    Early Life
    • He had a good memory that inabled him to remember everything he read.
    • He had a personality that got him everything he wanted.
    • He was a religious athority, but he never held a formal positon in the church. FUHRMANN, JOSEPH T. "Grigory Rasputin." Encyclopedia of Russian History. Ed. James R. Millar. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 4 Oct. 2011. http://img.garbo.ro/images/article_pictures/slideshows/1348_0_1255691176.jpg
  • Pilgrimages

    Pilgrimages
    • His pilgrimages included Kiev, Jerusalem, and Mt. Athos. http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media/images/868.jpg
  • Tsar Nichlas II

    Tsar Nichlas II
    • Through perswasion of church officials and social leaders he gained a reputation and then meet Tsar Nicholas II. FUHRMANN, JOSEPH T. "Grigory Rasputin." Encyclopedia of Russian History. Ed. James R. Millar. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 4 Oct. 2011. http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/222939/530wm/H4000213-Grigori_Rasputin_with_Russian_soldiers-SPL.jpg
  • Takes Power Citations

    "Gregory Efimovitch Rasputin." Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 11 Oct. 2011.
    "Grigori Efimovich Rasputin." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 11 Oct. 2011.
    "Rasputin." Historic World Leaders. Gale, 1994. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 11 Oct. 2011.
    "Rasputin, Grigory Yefimovich." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition.
    Encyclopædia Britannica,
  • Takes Power

    Takes Power
    Considered a Mystic or Holy Man
    • Healed Nicholas’s son Alexei from a blood disease (Hemophilia).
    • Was left in charge of the government while Nicholas II went to battle.
    • He replaced all Nicholas’s Cabinet members with morons.
    • Nicholas through Rasputin out of po FUHRMANN, JOSEPH T. "Grigory Rasputin." Encyclopedia of Russian History. Ed. James R. Millar. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 4 Oct. 2011. http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media/images/867.jpg
  • Death

    Death
    Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin was killed several times, he was shot twice in the chest and once in the head, then he was drug outside and beat with a steel press. He was still alive after that, so the men who were trying to kill him tied him up and trough him in the Neva River. He broke through the ice after he untied himself and wrote a cross in the snow with his right hand before he drowned.
    St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Death Citations

    "Gregory Efimovitch Rasputin." Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 11 Oct. 2011. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Dead_Rasputin.jpg/200px-Dead_Rasputin.jpg