Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin was born in Tobolsk, far away from the Imperial Capital of St. Petersburg, in 1871. In the years he remained within the Imperial court, witnesses, including doctors, concluded he possessed some extraordinary healing power over the Tsarevich and his deadly illness, hemophilia. Rasputin's mysterious ability to heal Alexei convinced the Tsarina Aleksandra that Rasputin must have been sent by God himself. In her mind he was he the answer to her prayers for …showed first 75 words of 4148 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4148 total…place. Rasputin formed his own religious sect. He also survived two gunshot wounds before dying. Rasputin was a controversial man. Works Cited Discovering Biography. The Gale Group. 9 May 2000 . Fuhrmann, Joseph T. Rasputin, A Life. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. Massie, Robert K. The Romanovs: The Final Chapter. New York: Random House, 1995. Radzinsky, Edvard. The Rasputin File. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2000. Rasputin, Grigory Yefimovich. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 9 May 2000 http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=64340&sctn=1.