|summary=A concise biography of Grigori Rasputin, the 'mad monk' of popular legend during the last years of the Russian empire.
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Was Grigori Rasputin, the Siberian peasant turned mystic and the time bomb who almost single-handedly precipitated the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, a genuine holy man or an evil-minded reprobate and total disaster?