拉斯普丁的神秘生活和离奇之死 The Mysterious Life and Death of Rasputin

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On a cold winter night in 1916, Felix Yusupov anxiously prepared to pick up his dinner guest.

If all went as planned, his guest would be dead by morning, though four others had already tried and failed to finish him off.

The Russian monarchy was on the brink of collapse, and to Yusupov and his fellow aristocrats, the holy man they'd invited to dinner was the single cause of it all.

But who was he, and how could a single monk be to blame for the fate of an empire?

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin began his life in Siberia, born in 1869 to a peasant family.

He might have lived a life of obscurity in his small village, if not for his conversion to the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1890s.

Inspired by the humbled monks that wandered endlessly from holy site to holy site, he spent years on pilgrimages across Russia.

On his travels, strangers were captivated by Rasputin's magnetic presence.

Some even believed he had mystical gifts of prediction and healing.

Despite Rasputin's heavy drinking, petty theft, and promiscuity, his reputation as a monk quickly spread beyond Siberia and attracted both laypeople and powerful Orthodox clergymen.

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