Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin ... a skilled occultist and priest. His ability to heal people and maintain their health was considered his greatest strength. Rasputin referred to himself as a sage ...

Rasputin was born Grigori Yefimovich Novykh, a Siberian peasant who would later acquire the surname Rasputin because of his sexual promiscuity and heavy drinking. In Russian, “Rasputin ...