![]() ![]() ![]() The following day, the two sisters reported their father missing to Anna Vyrubova. Yusupov had visited Rasputin regularly in the past few weeks or months. On 17 December 1916, Rasputin was lured to the Moika Palace for a house warming party organized by Felix Yusupov, whom Rasputin called "The Little One". Maria liked to visit the opera and the Ciniselli Circus. Pankhadze had avoided being sent to the war front due to Rasputin's intervention, and was doing his military service with the reserve battalions in Petrograd. Maria was briefly engaged during World War I to a Georgian officer named Pankhadze. According to Maria, her father started to drink dessert wines. Seven weeks later, Rasputin left the hospital and returned to St Petersburg. Maria and her mother accompanied their father to hospital in Tyumen. Maria records that Rasputin was never the same after the attack by Khioniya Guseva on 12 July 1914. ![]() According to Maria, Grigory did "look into" the Khlysti's ideas. (As he was not an elder, he would be referred to as a pilgrim.) For Maria, her father's healing practices on Tsarevich Alexei were based on magnetism. Maria expressed her ideas about their surname Rasputin.Īccording to her, he was never a monk, but a starets. What little is known about Rasputin's childhood was passed down by Maria. He lived in this 5-room apartment from May 1914 with a housemaid, her niece and his two daughters. 20, was on the third floor with a view in the courtyard, but the Tsarskoe train station nearby. ![]()
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