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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (/ r æ ˈ s p j uː t ɪ n /; 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.
Khioniya Kuzminichna Guseva (c. 1880/81 – after 1919) (her first name has alternatively been spelled as Khionia or Jina or Chionya and her surname has been alternatively spelled as Gusyeva) [1] was a Russian townswoman (meshchanka) of Syzran (near Simbirsk) who attempted to kill Grigori Rasputin in 1914.
Alleged possible involvement in the plot to kill Rasputin Oswald Theodore Rayner (29 November 1888, in Smethwick , Staffordshire, England – 6 March 1961, in Botley, Oxfordshire , England) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was a British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) field agent who operated covertly in the Russian Empire during the First World War .
Knyaz Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston (Russian: Князь Фе́ликс Фе́ликсович Юсу́пов, Граф Сумаро́ков-Эльстон; [1] 23 March [O.S. 11 March] 1887 – 27 September 1967) was a Russian aristocrat from the House of Yusupov who is best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin and for marrying Princess Irina ...
Most of Rasputin's enemies had by now disappeared. Stolypin was dead, Count Kokovtsov fallen from power, Theofan of Poltava exiled, Bishop Hermogen illegally banished and Iliodor in hiding. [11] Together with Alexei Khvostov he concocted a plan to kill Rasputin early 1916. Then Iliodor tried to bribe the Tsarina with publishing his book on ...
Rasputin comes back and tries to kill the emperor in order to gain control of Russia, but Nick stakes him, thus killing him permanently. In a 2001 episode on the daytime drama Passions , the witch Tabitha Lenox has a flashback to 1916 Imperial Russia where Rasputin is established as her love interest.
Spanish police on Monday said they had arrested three "extremely dangerous" suspected mafia members wanted in Italy for crimes including attempted murder, weapons trafficking and money laundering.
Costume designer Tatiana Patrahaltseva found several antiques - a jacket and coat, worn by Mashkov. For the main characters - the royal family, Vyrubova, Rasputin, Swietten - all costumes were custom-made. In England, hard collars were ordered, several cylinders and canoes were bought, built according to the technologies of the time.