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Birth Name: Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
Date of Birth: 21 January, 1869
Place of Birth: Pokrovskoye, Tyumensky Uyezd, Tobolsk Governorate (now Yarkovsky District, Tyumen Oblast), Western Siberia, Russia
Date of Death: c. 30 December, 1916
Place of Death: Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), Russia
Ethnicity: Russian
Grigori Rasputin (Григорий Распутин) was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He was known for his relationship with Czar Nicholas II and his family, in the lead-up to the Russian Revolution. He was particularly seen as a healer for Nicholas’s son, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. He is often described as having been a monk or strannik (wanderer, pilgrim); though he had no official position in the Russian Orthodox church.
Grigori was the son of Anna Vasiljevna (Parshukova) and Yefim/Efim Jakovlevich/Yakovlevich Rasputin, a farmer, government courier ferrying goods, and church elder. His family were described as peasants. Grigori was named after St. Gregory of Nyssa. He had a religious awakening after embarking on a pilgrimage to a monastery in 1897.
He was married to Praskovya Fedorovna Dubrovina, until his death, with whom he had seven children, three of whom survived to adulthood. His daughter, Maria Rasputin (Matryona Grigorievna Rasputina), wrote three memoirs about Grigori.
Grigori’s paternal grandfather was named Yakov Vasiljevich Rasputin (the son of Vasilii Rasputin).
Grigori’s maternal grandfather was named Vasily Parshukov.
Sources: Genealogies of Grigori Rasputin – https://www.geni.com https://www.findagrave.com