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Rasputin’s Religious Journey
Grigory Rasputin was born into a Russian Orthodox family and grew up in a mainly Russian Orthodox town named Pokrovskoye, Siberia. In the late 1890’s Rasputin went on a religious journey to the Verkhoturye Monastery in Siberia. At Verkhoturye Monastery, Rasputin was introduced to a fellow Russian monk who greatly influenced Rasputin’s ways and convinced Rasputin to stop drinking, smoking, and stop his carnivorous habits. After his visit to the monastery, Rasputin was officially considered a strannik, which is a Russian religious pilgrim. After returning home from Verkhoturye, Rasputin was noticed by his fellow peers and family as a changed man with holy and or mystical powers. Around 1898, Rasputin claimed to see Our Lady of Kazan (also called the Theotokos of Kazan) who is the Russian Orthodox version of the Virgin Mary whom is supposed to protect the city of Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. Rasputin had supposedly witnessed a theophany of the Virgin Mary as the Russian Orthodox Church views the Virgin Mary as a holy being. After seeing Our Lady of Kazan, Rasputin then began his journey of religious mysticism.
In December of 1093, Rasputin moved to the then capital of Russia, St. Petersburg from his hometown of Pokrovskoye, Siberia which is about 1,700 miles to the east. Once settled in St. Petersburg, Rasputin began to meet with other mystics and theologians such as Saint John of Kronstadt and Ivan Stragorodsky. Saint John of Kronstadt and Ivan Stragorodsky were both well know Russian Orthodox theologians and religious figures. Rasputin was soon introduced to Milica and Anastasia, The Princesses of Montenegro due to their interest of mysticism especially Persian...
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