Who was Grigori Rasputin, the 'mad' monk who destroyed the mighty Russian empire? it is said that Rasputin played an important role in the downfall of the mighty Romanovs empire which ruled over Russia for around 300 years. Rasputin had a wife and seven children2/5 Rasputin married a peasant girl named Praskovya Dubrovina and the couple went on to have seven children. Rasputin spent several months at a monastery3/5 In 1897, Rasputin went on a pilgrimage to the Saint Nicholas Monastery at Verkhoturye. Rasputin described himself as a “Christ in miniature”4/5 According to biographer Frances Welch, Rasputin once told the Russian Czar that he was 'Christ in miniature'.

Source: dna June 01, 2021 05:27 UTC