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Maria Rasputin, born Matryona Rasputin in 1899, initially lived in the village of Pokrovskoe. Her father, Grigori Rasputin, ...
From country to court. Born in 1869 to peasant farmers, Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin grew up in Pokrovskoye—an obscure village in western Siberia some 1,600 miles from St. Petersburg.
In 1897, Rasputin made pilgrimages to several monasteries and had some kind of religious conversion and returned home a changed man. He wandered across Russia speaking a simple Christian message.
Rasputin, who was under fifty at the time of his death, was born in the village of Pokrovskoe on the Tura, near Tobolsk in Siberia. Like many peasants he had no surname; Rasputin, which means ...