![]() ![]() In November 1905, Rasputin met Nicholas II and his empress consort, Alexandra Feodorovna. In 1903 or in the winter of 1904–1905, he travelled to Saint Petersburg and captivated a number of religious and social leaders, eventually becoming a prominent figure in Russian society. He had a religious conversion experience after embarking on a pilgrimage to a monastery in 1897 and has been described as a monk or as a strannik (wanderer or pilgrim), though he held no official position in the Russian Orthodox Church. Rasputin was born to a family of peasants in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye, located within Tyumensky Uyezd in Tobolsk Governorate (present-day Yarkovsky District in Tyumen Oblast). He is best-known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained considerable influence in the final years of the Russian Empire. Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin ( / r æ ˈ s p j uː t ɪ n/ Russian: Григорий Ефимович Распутин 21 January 1869 – 30 December 1916) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man. ![]()
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