Word: rasputin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Notorious "Black Monk" Rasputin told Tsar Nicholas that the Romanov regime would collapse...
...tourists were titillated, last week, by blatant announcement heralding the première of a super-nude review starring Mme. Boris Soloviev, better known as "Rasputin's Daughter" (TIME, July 16). Mme. Soloviev is the daughter of the "Black Monk" Gregory Novihh-called "Rasputin" (which means the "Debauchee"), and famed as the evil nemesis of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias. Pending in Paris is a damage suit for 25,000,000 francs brought by Mme. Soloviev against Prince Felix Youssoupov, the self-confessed killer of Monk Rasputin...
...Imperial Family, then setting out for Siberian exile, chanced to drive through the village of Pokrovskoie, where Rasputin was born, and as they clattered past the murdered Monk's house, the Tsaritsa Alexandra waved to his daughter, Mme. Soloviev, who was standing in the doorway. Boris Soloviev, was serving at this time as a secret emissary between the Tsar and his White Russian adherents. Some historians maintain that he betrayed a project for the rescue of the Imperial Family to the Bolsheviki, thus precipitating the mass murder of the Romanovs, at Ekaterinburg, on July...
Whether or not Son-in-Law Soloviev was the means of carrying out his father-in-law's prophecy, it is significant that he was gifted in lesser degree with the prodigious hypnotic powers of Rasputin...
President of the Duma Rodzianko, a man of huge physique, told thus of a similar encounter: "Rasputin faced me and seemed to run me over with his eyes; first my face, then the region of the heart, then again he stared me in the eyes. ... I, speaking literally, felt my own eyes starting out of my head. ... I felt myself confronted by an unknown, tremendous power...