Grigori Efimovitch Raspoutine, afterward Raspoutine-Novy (in Russian:  probably born in 1869 in the village of Pokrovskoïe, is a pélerin, mystic and Russian quack. He became a confidant of Alexandra, wife of Nicolas II and acquired a strong influence within the Russian imperial court(yard), until her murder in Saint-Petersburg at night from 16 till 17 December 1916.
Native of borders of Siberia, it is mystic wandering one, maybe one staretz3, sometimes nicknamed the " crazy monk ". No source(spring) however gives evidence that he would really have been a monk, as himself asserted it. The hypothesis most generally reserved is that it was especially a pélerin endowed with a big aura.

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