Grigori Rasputin, Russian Mystic — obituary
(13 Days of Dark and Weird Halloween Challenge №7)
Rasputin-Novyi, Girgori Efimovic 1869–2018
We announce the final death of Grigori Efimovic Rasputin-Novyi, known to the world as “Rasputin”, originally of Pokrovskoye, Siberia, recently residing in Paris. Father Grigori (self-named) died in the early hours of Tuesday morning, at the home of his great-granddaughter in Montmarte, of natural causes, at the age of 149 years, 3 months and 10 days. He was predeceased by all his siblings and children.
Native to Siberia, Rasputin was born in Pokrovskoye, 21 January 1869, beloved son of Anna (nee Parshukova) and Yefim Rasputin, a church elder, who married in 1863. Rasputin was illiterate until adulthood and was a petty criminal until a religious experience caused him to make a pilgrimage in 1897. He arrived in St Petersburg in July of 1904. There, he rose in the royal court of the Tsar, through his psychic work and belief in “divine grace through sin”. Rasputin was swept up in the Russian civil unrest of World War 1, and suffered several miraculously unsuccessful attempts on his life (the last of which resulted in a coroners report which mysteriously went missing, along with the body), after which he fled to Paris where his daughter Matryona (Maria) Grigorievna Rasputina had emigrated after the Russian Revolution of 1917. The…
