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Grigory Rasputin, the 'Mad Monk' who was hard to kill. Grigory Rasputin, whose life and times is to be the subject of a new Franco-Russian film, led a life less ordinary. Grigory Rasputin Photo: ALAMY.
Rasputin claimed to have mystical powers, which gained him the confidences of first the Tsarina, Alexandra-who thought that he could cure her haemophiliac son-and Tsar Nicholas. But he was highly unpopular among courtiers and his killers evaded trial, publishing memoirs that described the murder in detail.