1 Rasputin was killed by men who were jealous of his influence with the Russian royal family.

2 But the media are not Rasputin with a covert or overt political agenda.

3 By the time he was twenty Rasputin had married a local girl and before long had sired four children.

4 Rasputin, a writer profoundly disappointed about reality and holding his ground of moral idealism, frequently employs the dream image in his works.

5 When Rasputin was murdered by a group of noblemen in 1916, some accounts say he was also sexually mutilated and his penis was severed.

6 Rasputin , one of the biggest sinners of the province, was suddenly struck by the potential held by this theory.

7 Rasputin exercised some strong hypnotic power over the Tsar and his wife.

8 All three aspects form the new realism of Rasputin .

9 Rasputin dined here, Dostoevsky wrote in a corner hotel room, Tchaikovsky supped with his bride on their honeymoon.

10 Grigori Rasputin (1869–1916) was a Russian mystic believed by some to be a psychic and faith healer having supernatural powers.

11 Flagellation and other exotic practices formed part of its creed and Rasputin entered into the spirit of these with enthusiasm.

12 He was shot with thirty nails, tied up with electrical wires and extension cords, rolled in an area rug, and bundled up. Toss him into an icy river, and we may as well call him Rasputin.

13 So his killers shot him in the back with a revolver. Rasputin fell but later revived.

14 His presence in Russia was predicted by himself in a book published here by the Century Company in which he revealed the story of his relations with Rasputin, with the Czar and with the spies.

15 Based on a typical Russian common family with sporadic and universal misery, Rasputin summarizes social situation and the people's exist crisis in Russia.