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'''Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin''' (1869-1916) was a Russian mystic and preacher. Born of illiterate peasant parents, he arrived in Saint Petersburg in the early 20th century, where he had some success in treating Tsarevich Alexei, who suffered from haemophilia. He managed to turn this, and the fascination in upper-class Russian circles with religious mysticism, healing, and sex, into becoming a close associate of the Tsar's family and an important figure in pre-
▲Rasputin (1869-1916) was a Russian mystic and preacher. Born of illiterate peasant parents, he arrived in Saint Petersburg in the early 20th century, where he had some success in treating Tsarevich Alexei, who suffered from haemophilia. He managed to turn this, and the fascination in upper-class Russian circles with religious mysticism, healing, and sex, into becoming a close associate of the Tsar family and an important figure in pre-revolution Russia.
Due to his many affairs and drunkenness (his personal faith required sin, in his case alcohol and sex, followed by repentance), he became a target of anti-Romanov and anti-Tsarist groups in Russia. He was murdered in 1916, ostensibly by Prince Felix Yusupov and a band of his cronies. [[History Marches On|Yusupov's story]] (as embroidered and added to through the years) was that Rasputin was lured to a meeting with Yusupov where he was fed cakes and wine laced with cyanide; when that failed to kill him, he was beaten, shot, stabbed, and thrown into the Neva River, where he died of hypothermia after trying to claw through the ice. In reality, he was shot in the head with a .455 Webley which killed him instantly. No cakes and wine (he had a bad stomach and wouldn't have eaten them even if the cyanide could have survived the baking process), no beating, no freezing.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Like the equally evil [[Jack the Ripper]], Mad Monk Rasputin has a bit role in the anime ''[[Soul Eater]]''. In a dream sequence, no less!
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
* He is an antagonist (in service of an [[Eldritch Abomination]]) in ''[[Hellboy (
▲== Comic Books ==
* He is an ancestor of Colossus in ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]''. An ancestor that is very eager to be reincarnated in one of his blood.
* When Karl Kesel homaged elements of ''[[Kamandi]]'' in ''[[Superboy]]'' he introduced a ''Rat''sputin as the [[Evil Chancellor]] of Great Caesar.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the [[All There in the Manual|concordance]] to ''[[Drunkard's Walk|Drunkard's Walk VIII]]'', it's revealed that one of the personalities/previous lives of the Warrior known as "Skitz" was Rasputin.
== [[Film
* In the [[Don Bluth]] film ''[[Anastasia]]'', Rasputin was an undead sorcerer who made a [[Deal
▲* He is an antagonist (in service of an [[Eldritch Abomination]]) in ''[[Hellboy (
▲* He is an antagonist (in service of an [[Eldritch Abomination]]) in ''[[Hellboy (Film)|Hellboy]]''.
* [[Hammer Horror|Hammer]] did a movie about him called ''Rasputin the Mad Monk'', with [[Christopher Lee]] in the title role.
* [[Tom Baker]] played a darkly charismatic Rasputin in the historical biopic ''Nicholas and Alexandra''.
* [[Alan Rickman]] did a sympathetic portrayal of the man in the HBO original movie ''[[Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny]]''. His portrayal argued Rasputin may actually have been a saint with legitimate supernatural powers derived from God and at the very least didn't deserve the crap piled on his memory.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* The ''[[
▲== Literature ==
▲* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' [[Past Doctor Adventures]] novel ''Wages of Sin'' is set in pre-Revolution Russia and has Rasputin as a character. It's a historically-straight portrayal mostly, although his famous hard-to-kill-ness does turn out to be due to a time traveller trying to keep him alive.
** He gets [[Gambit Pileup|far more hilarious]] in [[Faction Paradox]]. To start with, the Faction recruited him a few days before his death, took him to the [[Eldritch Location|Eleven-Day Empire]], and replaced him with an exact duplicate. Then the Celestis came along, didn't realise the Faction had made the switch, and offered him their standard deal that includes resurrection. The duplicate had been briefed not to argue with any War-era powers it met, and so accepted the deal. By the time of the assassination attempt, the Great Houses noticed something was going on, assumed the Faction would try to take him to the Empire at the point of death, and so implanted a device that would replace the Faction duplicate with a Great House duplicate. House constructs are by default immune to poisoning. As such, when the poison failed, he was shot. Then the Celesti protocols resurrected him, producing a creature whose mind was struggling between Great Houses, Celesti, and Faction protocols which had to be shot repeatedly and beaten to death simply to get it to lie down long enough to be thrown ino the river, where it finally froze to death. As a result, none of the three powers involved like to talk about it and everyone in the War agreed to leave celebrities well alone. The real Rasputin, meanwhile, persuaded Anastasia (who was also a Faction recruit) to set up a rival state, then went mad and died under mysterious circumstances. Anastasia's Thirteen-Day Republic was shortly afterwards annihilated.
* A Cahill from the Tomas branch in ''[[The 39 Clues]]''.
* ''[[A Night in
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* He was the subject of an episode of the TV version of ''[[The Crow]]''.
* [[Leonard Nimoy]] played a Rasputin-like character in "The Choice", an episode of ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'', indestructibility and all.
* When the topic of Rasputin's death was brought up on ''[[QI]]'', Bill Bailey, inspired by the Boney M song's line about Rasputin's glowing eyes, put forth the theory that Rasputin was, in fact, a [[Terminator (
* Rasputin shows up among the army of wax droids in an episode of ''[[
* ''[[Forever Knight]]''. [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|Rasputin is a vampire]] who gets executed on the orders of LaCroix the vampire so as to spark off the chaos of revolution.
* In the ''[[Angel]]'' episode "Why We Fight", after Angel tells the vampire Nostroyev he's never heard of him, Nostroyev lists various atrocities he's responsible for, closing with "I was Rasputin's lover!"
== [[Music]] ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_Eo2QzqU4 "Rasputin"], a 1978 single by [[Boney M.]], which refers to him as "Russia's greatest love machine." It's been covered by a number of bands.▼
==
* One ''[[
▲* "Rasputin" by Boney M, which refers to him as "Russia's greatest love machine." It's been covered by a number of bands.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
* Appeared in about a dozen books in the ''[[
* ''[[Pathfinder]]'' has a module named ''Rasputin Must Die'' where the player characters are {{spoiler|[[Real World Episode|transported to the "real" world]] and, per the name, must kill Rasputin}}.
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* A ''[[
▲* One ''[[Dilbert (Comic Strip)|Dilbert]]'' comic had the [[Pointy-Haired Boss]] hiring Rasputin, saying he had "charisma". He then proceeded to suffocate Asok with a [[Death Glare]]. After that, he tried to do the same to Wally, but Wally's powerful ''anti-''charisma caused ''him'' to choke instead.
▲== Tabletop Games ==
▲* Appeared in about a dozen books in the ''[[Old World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)|Old World of Darkness]]''... and each of them [[Multiple Choice Past|told a different story]] with him as another type of supernatural. {{spoiler|They are all true -- Rasputin became a Wraith after death and possessed all the supernaturals he was featured as.}}
▲* A ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' achievement for the Heavy references Rasputin. The Heavy needs to suffer several types of damage in a single life.
* Showed up as a [[Big Bad]] (though not THE [[Big Bad]], since he basically shows up in the middle of the game) in ''[[Shadow Hearts]] 2: Covenant''. Turns out, he's secretly a demon. Fortunately, you've got the help of a camera-wielding Princess Anastasia, and her magical, flying Farberge Egg!
* He shows up as a [[Camp Gay]] fighter in the ''[[
* He gets a mention in ''[[
* {{spoiler|A robot from the future made in the image of}} Rasputin shows up as an antagonistic Devil Summoner in ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army]]'' (set years after his supposed death and in ''Japan'' no less).
* Ra'''''[[My Nayme Is|z]]'''''putin is the [[Kid Hero|psychic prodigy star]] of ''[[
* ''[[
=== [[Visual Novels]] ===
* Rasputin is the final boss of ''[[Lime
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▲* Rasputin is the final boss of ''[[Lime Iro Senkitan (Visual Novel)|Lime Iro Senkitan]]''. He's presented as a monk, at least. He's also presented as a villain mastermind with his own henchmen and an intent to take over Russia (and then, presumably, the world).
* Rasputin [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/04/19-april-2011.html (in one of his coolest appearances)] is the main villain of the Dungeons and Dragons game the main characters of ''[[The Word Weary]]'' play.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* In an ''[[
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* In an ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' short, Rasputin has the ability to hypnotize others instantly into doing his will...until he meets the Warners.
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