Grigori Rasputin
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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained conside
Portrait of Rasputin, c. 1910s
Pokrovskoye in 1912
Rasputin with his children
Makary, Bishop Theofan and Rasputin, 1909
Nicholas II
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Nicholas II was Emperor of Russia from 1 November 1894 until his abdication in 1917. He was the last Russian monarch before the Russian Revolution and oversaw the Russian Empire's participation in Wor
Grigori Rasputin
…January] 1869 – 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained considerable influence in the final years of the Russian Empire. Rasputin was born to a family of…
Nicholas in 1912
Nicholas II in Nikolo Tikhonov Monastery 01
Nicholas with his mother, Maria Feodorovna, in 1870
Nicholas with his cousin, George V of the United Kingdom (right), wearing German military uniforms in Berlin before the war; 1913