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Minibioshow #19 - Grigori Rasputin

by AKAB

GRIGORI RASPUTIN (from top left to bottom right)
1. Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was born in 1869 in Pokrovskoye, Russia. After the death of his son, he retires to a convent.
2. Years later he starts wandering across the country, building his reputation as a mystic. The tsar summons him to heal his son affected by haemophilia.
3. No doctor had been able to treat him, Rasputin heals him, then becomes a court counsellor and the tsarina’s lover.Rasputin obtains the authorisation to perform mysterious rituals based on wine and orgies.
4. Due to his growing power and dissolution, a few nobles resolve to murder him. They invite him to a party and offer him poisoned wine and pastries.
5. The poison seems useless, the crazy monk stays on his feet, 5 of them beat him with heavy bats.When he is down, they shoot him in the head and throw his body in a frozen river.
6. To this day, his penis is exhibited in St. Petersburg erotic museum. It is 33 cm long.