Grigori Rasputin was a Russian peasant who claimed to have mystic healing powers, and he even went so far as to say he was the second coming of Christ. He formed his own cult, and even manipulated the members of the royal Romanov family into believing he truly was a holy man. →Subscribe for new videos every Monday and Thursday! null Visit our companion website for more: http://biographics.org/ Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Shannon Quinn Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to biographics.email@gmail.com Other Biographics Videos: 10 Facts About the Mad Monk Grigori Rasputin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmkVmEb5TwQ Mark Zuckerberg: Tech Visionary or Supervillain? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WCLFrb5Umo Source/Further reading: https://archive.org/stream/madmonkofrussiai00trufuoft#mode/2up https://books.google.com/books?id=MAFZCAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT375&dq=Rudolf%20Lacher&pg=PT375#v=onepage&q=Rasputin&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=kI6sMBG9uuQC&lpg=PP1&dq=last%20day%20of%20the%20romanovs&pg=PT109#v=snippet&q=Rasputin&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=LxNmDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA678&dq=disciple%20of%20rasputin%20olga%20lokhtina&pg=PA72#v=onepage&q=olga%20lokhtina&f=false https://mashable.com/2016/12/17/exiles-convicts-siberia/#3YTWnSKTpkq5 https://mne.today/2017/11/princess-milica-anastasia-montenegro/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP5C59QTuKI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Trufanov https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rasputin-was-poisoned-shot-beaten-and-drowned-but-did-his-penis-survive