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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.
On the night of December 29/December 30, 1916 (16 December according to the Julian calendar that was still used in Russia at the time), Yusupov invited Rasputin to his palace on the pretext of his wife Irina needing his attentions as a healer.