Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (1869-1916) Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images Nicholas II’s children resembled something akin to delicate china dolls, Matrena would later recall in her me ...

The unsettling pictures show the hypnotic gaze of Grigori Rasputin, whose intensely cold blue eyes won over the impressionable Tsarina, reports The Daily Mail. Tsarina was won over by the mystic ...

Grigori Rasputin was a self-proclaimed holy man who was thought to have closely influenced the Romanov family, the last imperial dynasty to rule Russia. When he was 18, Rasputin underwent a ...

we tell the story of the 'Mad Monk'. (Photo: Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk and courtesan. Credit: Dmitri Wasserman/Getty Images) ...

From January 2013. Show more What was so notable about Grigori Rasputin ? "The hypnotic power shining in his exceptional gaze," said one observer. The photos are indeed remarkable, and so are the ...

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was born in Pokrovskoye in Western Siberia on Jan. 9, 1869. He was baptized the following day, which was the Feast day of St. Gregory of Nyssa, for whom he was named.