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Pokrovskoye in 1912 Rasputin with his children. Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was born a peasant in the small village of Pokrovskoye, along the Tura River in the Tobolsk Governorate (now Tyumen Oblast) in the Russian Empire. [2] According to official records, he was born on 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1869 and christened the following day. [3]
Attempted murder of Grigori Rasputin in 1914 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 ...
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 ...
The palace was the scene of the assassination of Grigori Rasputin by a monarchist group which included Prince Felix Yusupov, heir to the vast Yusupov family estates. [4] These included four palaces in St. Petersburg. The palace on the Moika was reportedly the prince's favorite residence in the capital.
On his return to England, Oswald Rayner not only confided to his cousin, Rose Jones, that he had been present at Rasputin's murder but also showed family members a bullet which he claimed to have acquired at the murder scene. [22] "Additionally, Oswald Rayner translated Yusupov’s first book on the murder of the peasant, sparking an ...
It is the largely fictionalized story of Grigori Rasputin, the Russian peasant-mystic who gained great influence with the Tsars prior to the Russian Revolution, although some of the events leading up to Rasputin's assassination are very loosely based on Prince Yusupov's account of the story. For legal reasons (Yusupov was still alive when the ...
Purishkevich was particularly critical of the roles of Empress Alexandra and her close advisor Grigori Rasputin. [4] On 3 November 1916, Purishkevich went to Mogilev and talked with Tsar Nicolas II about Rasputin. [11] On 19 November, Purishkevich delivered a speech in the Duma that denounced Rasputin and the conduct of the government.
I Killed Rasputin (French: J'ai tué Raspoutine) is a 1967 Italo-Franco biographical film directed by Robert Hossein. Gert Fröbe stars as the main subject, Grigori Rasputin . It is based on the work Lost Splendor by Felix Yusupov , a nobleman and participant in the murder of Rasputin.