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unusual facts about Rasputin



A Finnish Summer with Turisas

Ruisrock 2008: "As Torches Rise", "In the Court of Jarisleif", "Rasputin"

Edvard Radzinsky

The books translated to English include his biographies of Tsars Nicholas II and Alexander II, Rasputin, and Joseph Stalin.

George V. Grigore

In movies he plays the most important characters of the history of being like: Nostradamus, Leonardo da Vinci, Jesus Christ, Rasputin, Pugachov, Hagendorf, John the Apostle and the fiction character like vampire Bruno, Malik The Profet, and many priest and monk characters.

Greet Hofmans

On 13 June 1956 an article appeared in the German magazine Der Spiegel subtitled Zwischen Königin und Rasputin, literally meaning Between queen and Rasputin.

John Hanbury-Williams

In 1934 he appeared as a witness in Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia’s famous and successful libel suit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Limited following the release in England of the film Rasputin, the Mad Monk (USA title: Rasputin and the Empress).

Khioniya Guseva

Grigori Rasputin, a friend of the tsar Nicholas II of Russia and the Tsarina, was visiting his wife and children in his village, along the Tura River, in Siberia.

Nightflight to Venus

The follow-up was another Boney M. classic, "Rasputin", in most countries also a double A-side coupled with "Painter Man", a cover of a 1966 hit by the band The Creation.

Ogdru Hem

Sadu-Hem was to act as the conduit between Rasputin and the Ogdru Jahad, but was destroyed after Abe Sapien speared Rasputin to death and Liz Sherman set the entire place on fire.

Ogdru Jahad

Eventually, after years of silence and waiting, Rasputin was approached by Heinrich Himmler, head of Hitler's SS.

Rasputin Music

Rasputin Music is the largest independent chain of record stores in the extended San Francisco Bay Area, California named after 19th century Russian religious figure Grigori Rasputin.

Suzan Farmer

Suzan Farmer also had lead roles in several Hammer horror films of the 1960s, including The Devil-Ship Pirates (1963), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), and Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966).

Truus van Aalten

Her claim to be related to Anton Chekhov was true, but she also loved to spin the most amazing yarns about her early life: she was close to Tsar Nicholas II, had met Rasputin and had fled the Revolution disguised as a mute peasant woman, hiding her jewellery in her mouth.


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