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The life of Grigory Rasputin: a timeline
9 January 1869
Grigory is born to the Siberian peasants Yefim and Anna Rasputin in the village of Pokrovskoe on the Tura river
2 February 1887
Grigory marries Praskovya Dubrovina. They will go on to have three children: Dmitry, Matryona (Maria), and Varvara
1897–1905
Rasputin wanders to holy sites across Russia as a strannik, or pilgrim
1 November 1905
Rasputin is presented to Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Empress Alexandra, for the first time
1907
Rasputin is investigated by the church for his supposed connections to the underground sect known as the khlysty (whips)
March 1910
The Moscow Gazette launches the first of many press campaigns against Rasputin
Spring 1911
Rasputin travels to the Holy Land
October 1912
Tsarevich Alexei almost dies from internal bleeding at Spała, but is saved, so Nicholas and Alexandra believe, by Rasputin’s divine intervention.
29 June 1914
Rasputin is stabbed by a woman named Khioniya Guseva outside his home in Pokrovskoe and nearly dies
January–February
1916 Minister of the Interior Alexei Khvostov plots Rasputin’s murder. The plot fails
17 December 1916
Rasputin is murdered in the Petrograd mansion of Prince Felix Yusupov
10–11 March 1917
Rasputin’s body is cremated, most
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The Home of the Last Tsar - Romanov and Russian History
General Alexander Spiridovitch was the Chief of Secret Personal Police in charge of protecting Nicholas II and his immediate family at all times outside of the Imperial Palaces. He served from 1905 until the outbreak of the First World War in late 1914.
His two volume work "Les Dernieres Annees de la Cour de Tzarskoe Selo", (Payot, Paris, 1929) is an invaluable day to day account of the Imperial Family, and important events around them during those years.
Published originally only in Russian and French, it has been a neglected source until recently. The following account of the appearance and rise of Rasputin in St. Petersburg, in 1908 and 1909, is my own translation from the French undertaken in 2004.
Rob Moshein
As we shall speak of later, Rasputin was introduced by Bishop Theophane into several salons of Petersburg society, where he gained, between 1905 and 1908, a large popularity in the capital.
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