Grigori Rasputin, Kelly Mass
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Grigori Rasputin

Author: Kelly Mass

Narrator: Doug Greene

Unabridged: 0 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Author's Republic

Published: 06/07/2022

Genre: History - Europe - Russia & The Former Soviet Union

Synopsis

Rasputin, Grigori Yefimovich, was a Russian mystic and self-declared holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, Russia's last emperor, and accomplished massive power in late Imperial Russia.Rasputin was born into a peasant family in the Siberian town of Pokrovskoye in Tobolsk Governorate's Tyumensky Uyezd (now Yarkovsky District of Tyumen Oblast). In the year 1897, while on a journey to an abbey, he had a spiritual conversion experience. While he held no official post in the Russian Orthodox Church, he has been referred to as a monk or a "strannik" (wanderer or pilgrim). In the year 1903 or the winter season of 1904-- 1905, he checked out Saint Petersburg, where he drew in certain church and social leaders. In November 1905, he met Emperor Nicholas and Empress Alexandra and ended up being a social figure.Let’s learn more about Grigori Rasputin in this book.

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