Grigori Efimovich Rasputin (1869–1916) was a Siberian peasant from the Tobolsk region, known as the "Royal Hand", the healer and mystic at the court of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II.
Born in the village of Pokrovskoye to a peasant family, he was a wanderer for a long time.
In 1905, he met the imperial family, and succeeded in alleviating the hemophilia attacks in the heir to the throne, Tsarevich Alexei.
He enjoyed the immense trust of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, which allowed him to influence power and political decisions during the crisis of the Russian Empire. This caused severe dissatisfaction in society and the court.
On the night of December 17, 1916, in Petrograd, Rasputin was killed by a conspirator led by Prince Felix Yusupov (the conspiracy also included Vladimir Porishkevich and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich).