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Grigori Rasputin

1869 - 1916

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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (; Russian: Григо́рий Ефи́мович Распу́тин [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ rɐˈsputʲɪn]; 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grigori Rasputin has received more than 27,811,781 page views. His biography is available in 92 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Grigori Rasputin is the 2nd most popular occultist, the 14th most popular biography from Russia (up from 16th 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 John Dee, Baba Vanga, Helena Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, Count of St. Germain, Alessandro Cagliostro, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Allan Kardec, Éliphas Lévi, and Joachim of Fiore.

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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 André Gide, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Neville Chamberlain, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Gustaf Dalén, Karl Haushofer, Emma Goldman, and Fritz Pregl. Among people deceased in 1916, Grigori Rasputin ranks 1. After him are Franz Joseph I of Austria, Jack London, Ernst Mach, Yuan Shikai, Henryk Sienkiewicz, William Ramsay, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Élie Metchnikoff, Franz Marc, Odilon Redon, and Umberto Boccioni.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grigori Rasputin ranks 14 out of 3,761. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Anton Chekhov (1860), Peter the Great (1672), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), and Nicholas II of Russia (1868). After him are Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Wassily Kandinsky (1866), 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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