RASPUTIN
Grigory Rasputin was born on January 23, 1869. The village of Pokrovskoe, Rasputin's birthplace, is in Western Siberia, not far beyond the Ural Mountains, and about sixteen hundred miles from St. Petersburg, where this unusual peasant would spend much of his time in later years (Moynahan, 16; DeJonge, 6).
Grischa, as he liked to be called, grew up as any ordinary peasant would. He was a sturdy infant. This is what you would have to be growing up in rural Siberia, for every four out ...
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