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Grigori Rasputin

1869 - 1916

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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (21 January [O.S. 9 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 peasants in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye, located within Tyumensky Uyezd in Tobolsk Governorate (present-day Yarkovsky District in Tyumen Oblast). He had a religious conversion experience after embarking on a pilgrimage to a monastery in 1897 and has been described as a monk or as a strannik (wanderer or pilgrim), though he held no official position in the Russian Orthodox Church. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grigori Rasputin is the 2nd most popular occultist, the 16th most popular biography from Russia (down from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Occultist.

Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic who was said to have healing powers. He was also said to have been a sexual predator.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Grigori Rasputin ranks 2 out of 41. Before him are Nostradamus. After him are Aleister Crowley, Baba Vanga, John Dee, Anton LaVey, Helena Blavatsky, Count of St. Germain, Éliphas Lévi, Alessandro Cagliostro, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, and Allan Kardec.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Grigori Rasputin ranks 3. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi, and Henri Matisse. After him are Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, André Gide, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Maud of Wales, Neville Chamberlain, Gustaf Dalén, Frederick Trump, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Fritz Pregl. Among people deceased in 1916, Grigori Rasputin ranks 2. Before him is Franz Joseph I of Austria. After him are Jack London, Henryk Sienkiewicz, William Ramsay, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Ernst Mach, Élie Metchnikoff, Yuan Shikai, Charles Taze Russell, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, and Odilon Redon.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grigori Rasputin ranks 16 out of 3,761. Before him are Igor Stravinsky (1882), Yuri Gagarin (1934), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Peter the Great (1672), Anton Chekhov (1860), and Nikita Khrushchev (1894). After him are Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Wassily Kandinsky (1866), Ayn Rand (1905), and Ivan Pavlov (1849).

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Among OCCULTISTS In Russia

Among occultists born in Russia, Grigori Rasputin ranks 1. After him are Nina Kulagina (1926), and Sergey Oldenburg (1863).

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