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Rasputin

Rasputin
Rasputin, the image alone is pretty horrifying, creepy. This man was able to do the impossible, social escalating isn’t very common or easy, especially amidst royal blue blood. The rural man who was Gregory Rasputin: no education, no money and no faith; known only as a pervert, criminal and drunken behavior. Born in January of 1869, in Siberia to poverty stricken conditions which explains his ambition. Was he evil? Was he a miracle worker? Was his ambition that brought him to manipulate?
He spent his teenage years as a rebel, mainly finding ways to have a good time. He was known to have sexual intercourse with several women, consuming several drugs, not to mention the alcohol. You can say he like the shock affect it gave the people in the rural village. He did the equivalent to what Marilyn Manson does now, worshipped by many and feared by most.
A change was what he wanted; The Russian Orthodox Church’s mystery drew him towards spiritually and his future. Studying ...

Posted by: Geraint Watts

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