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Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The death of Rasputin - A forensic evaluation. Oct 19, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 19, 2026
Anniversary information added. Dec 26, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC Listen - Mystic, manipulator, catalyst: Rasputin and Russia’s Last Tsar. Nov 08, 2025
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Grigori Rasputin. Jun 20, 2025
Add new Web site: Hanover College - History Department - Ra-Ra-Rasputin: The Fall of a Hyper-Sexualized Interpretation (PDF). Dec 19, 2024
Add new Web site: NPR - Fact Or Fiction? even when it comes to food, it's hard to tell with Rasputin. Oct 27, 2024
Add new Web site: BBC News - How was Russian mystic Rasputin murdered? Sep 15, 2024
Revised to modernize spellings, enhance photo captions. Jun 04, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 03, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Rasputin review ? how myth and murder created a Russian legend. Nov 17, 2023
Add new Web site: History Today - The Murder of Grigori Rasputin. Sep 04, 2023
Add new Web site: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War - Biography of Grigoriĭ Efimovich Version 1.0|Last updated 08 October 2014 Rasputin. Apr 03, 2023
Revised description of his death. Dec 17, 2020
Add new Web site: Alpha History - Biography of Grigori Rasputin. May 02, 2019
Add new Web site: Facts about Famous People - Rasputin Facts and Biography. May 02, 2019
Changed title of article from "Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin" to "Grigori Rasputin." Aug 11, 2018
Changed birth date from "1872?" to "January 22 [January 10, Old Style], 1869." Aug 11, 2018
Changed "Proskovia Fyodorovna" to "Proskovya Fyodorovna Dubrovina." Jan 13, 2016
Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Rasputin. Aug 04, 2013
Add new Web site: RT Russiapedia - Biography of Grigory Rasputin. Aug 04, 2013
Add new Web site: Firstworldwar.com - Biography of Grigory Rasputin. Aug 04, 2013
Added image of Rasputin. Dec 30, 2009
Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Gregory Rasputin. Apr 20, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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