Grigory Efimovich Rasputin--drinker, thief, womanizer--arrived in St.
How could it have happened? As on society lady of the time asked, "How could so pitiful a wretch thro.
By the time of his sensational murder thirteen years later, the peasant was the "beloved Friend" of Czar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra, with a seemingly supernatural power to stop the bleeding attacks of their hemophiliac son, Alexis. tattered, black-clad, muttering. . .
Petersburg in 1903 as if from the medieval past .
Grigory Efimovich Rasputin--drinker, thief, womanizer--arrived in St