To the 100th anniversary of the assassination of the Tsar's Friend...

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin-New was born on January 9 (21), 1869 in the village of Pokrovsky in the family of a peasant Efim Yakovlevich Rasputin (12/24/1841-autumn 1916) and Anna Vasilievna, nee Parshukova (1839 / 40-01/30/1906). It was an ordinary, unremarkable family among several dozen other families in the settlement of Pokrovskaya. It must be said that the ancestors of Grigory Efimovich settled here from the middle of the 17th century. and were already indigenous Siberians. By that time, Gregory was already the fifth child in this family. After the marriage of his parents, which took place on January 21, 1862, the following were born in succession:

Evdokia (11.02.1863-26.06.1863)
Evdokia (??.08.1864-until 1887)
Glyceria (05/08/1866-until 1887)
Andrei (08/14/1867-December 1867)
Grigory (01/09/1869-12/17/1916)
Andrei (11/25/1871-until 1887)
Tikhon (06/16/1874-06/17/1874)
Agrippina (06/16/1874-06/21/1874)
Feodosia (05/25/1875-after 1900)

Efim Yakovlevich Rasputin. 1914

As you can see, out of nine children born, only two survived to adolescence - Grigory himself and his sister Theodosia. The latter married a peasant, Daniil Pavlovich Orlov, from the village of Kosmakov. There were children in this marriage, whose godfather was Grigory Efimovich.

G. E. Rasputin with his sister Theodosia

Grigory Efimovich himself married at the age of eighteen a peasant woman Paraskeva Fedorovna Dubrovina (1866-1930). The wedding was on February 2, 1887, and a year and a half later they had their first child. In total, Grigory Efimovich and Paraskeva Feodorovna had seven children:

Mikhail (09/29/1888-04/16/1893)
Anna (01/29/1892-05/03/1896)
George (25.05.1894-13.09.1894)
Dmitry (10/25/1895-12/16/1933)
Matryona (aka Maria) (03/26/1898-09/27/1977)
Varvara (28.11.1900-1925)
Paraskeva (10/11/1903-12/20/1903)

Grigory with his wife Paraskeva Fedorovna

Children: Matryona, Varvara (in the arms of her father) and Dmitry

After approaching Gr. Rasputin with the Royal Family, daughters Matryona and Varvara moved first to Kazan, and then to St. Petersburg, where they studied at school. The son, Dmitry, remained on the farm in Pokrovsky.

Matryona and Varvara in St. Petersburg

After the revolution, the fate of those children who remain in Russia will be rather sad.

Varvara will never marry anyone, and after all the ordeals she will die in Moscow in 1925 from typhus and tuberculosis.

Barbara after the revolution

Dmitry on February 21, 1918 marries Feoktista Ivanovna Pecherkina (1897/98-09/05/1933). Until 1930, he lived with his wife and mother in Pokrovsky, and then the order came and they were dispossessed of kulaks and sent into exile in Obdorsk (Salekhard). On the way, the widow of Grigory Efimovich dies, three years later Feoktista Ivanovna dies of tuberculosis, and after her, three months later, Dmitry himself dies of dysentery. After that, there are no direct descendants of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin in Russia.

Family of Grigory Rasputin in 1927.
From left to right: son Dmitry Grigorievich, widow Paraskeva Fedorovna,
Elizaveta Ivanovna Pecherkina (worker in the house and relative of Dmitry's wife),
wife of Dmitry Feoktista Ivanovna

The fate of Matryona was different. The people's blogger of Russia recently told about this story sadalskij DAUGHTER OF RASPUTIN. It remains to add only a few touches.

In September 1917, she marries Boris Nikolaevich Solovyov (1893-1926), the son of a close friend of G. E. Rasputin, an official of the Holy Synod Nikolai Vasilyevich Solovyov (1863-1916). In 1920, their daughter Tatyana (1920-2009) was born, and two years later, already in exile, the second daughter, Maria (03/13/1922-04/19/1976).

The first husband of the daughter of Gr. Rasputin Matryona Boris Nikolaevich Solovyov

After the death of her husband, Matryona toured the world with a circus, until in the late 1930s. does not permanently move to the United States.

Matryona performs at the circus

Here she marries for the second time, for a Russian emigrant, a certain Grigory Grigorievich Bernadsky, whom she knew back in Russia. The marriage lasted from February 1940 to 1945.

Matryona Rasputina with her second husband Grigory Bernadsky in 1940

Matrena (right) with her friend Pat Barham (left) and famous
American actress Phyllis Diller (center). 1970s

Two granddaughters Gr. Rasputin completely settled abroad and both got married.

In Verkhoturye in 1909.
From left to right: Hieromonk Ioanniky (Malkov), Bishop Feofan (Bystrov),
monk Macarius (Polikarpov), Grigory Efimovich Rasputin-New

Tatyana Borisovna (presumably her surname in marriage was Frerjean) gave birth to three children: Serge (b. 07/29/1939), Michel (b. 08/06/1942) and Laurens (b. 11/30/1943). Her last daughter - Laurence Io-Soloviev - repeatedly visited Russia, including the village of Pokrovskoye. Serge has children: Valerie (b. 1963) and Alexandra (b. 1968); Basil was born to Valerie in 1992. Michel had a son, Jean-Francois (1968-1985). Laurence herself has two children: Maude (b. 1967) and Carol (b. 1966).

Matryona Rasputin-Soloviev with her daughters Tatyana and Maria in 1928

Great granddaughter Gr. Rasputin Laurence Io-Soloviev

Maria Borisovna married the Dutch diplomat Gideon Walrave Boissevain (1897-1985), from whom she gave birth to a son, Serge (07/10/1947-01/03/2011) and had two granddaughters: Katya (b. 1970) and Embre (b. 1978). Interestingly, being in Greece with her husband in the late 1940s. Maria met and became friends with the daughter of Felix Yusupov, Irina (1915-1983), and their children, Serge and Ksenia (b. 1942), played children's games together.

Maria Borisovna Solovieva (married Boissevain)

Portrait of G. E. Rasputin by the artist Theodora Krarup.
Finished four days before the assassination - December 13, 1916

Group about Grigory Efimovich Rasputin VKontakte.

I am the daughter of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin.
Baptized by Matryona, my family called me Maria.
Father - Marochka. Now I am 48 years old.
Almost as old as my father
when he was taken away from the house by a terrible man - Felix Yusupov.
I remember everything and never tried to forget anything
from what happened to me or my family
(no matter how the enemies count on it).
I don't cling to memories like those do
who tend to savor their misfortunes.
I just live by them.
I love my father very much.
Just as much as the others hate him.
I can't force others to love him.
I do not aspire to this, as my father did not aspire.
Like him, I just want understanding. But I'm afraid - and this is excessive when
We are talking about Rasputin.

Maria (Matryona) Rasputina (daughter of G. Rasputin) is the only one who survived from the family of Grigory Rasputin

From the publisher
Matrena Rasputina - the eldest daughter of Grigory Rasputin - was born in 1898
year. On October 5, 1917, she married officer Boris Solovyov. Soon
after the revolution, Matryona and her husband managed to leave Russia. Family
settled in Paris. In 1924, her husband died. Matryona was left with two
daughters in her arms, practically without funds. By that time, the beginning
her career as a (rather successful) dancer. Later, already in America, Matryona
mastered a profession, perhaps more suited to her temperament -
tiger tamers.
She died in Los Angeles (California, USA) in 1977 from a heart attack.
attack.
Her notes about her father - she called them in a foreign way "Rasputin.
Why?" - Matryona Grigorievna (however, in America she was known as
Maria) wrote from 1946 to 1960. For unknown reasons, she herself did not
published, although she sought to - even agreed to their use
her American nursing home neighbor (see below).
I purchased this manuscript in 1999 from her last owner, who
for some reason she did not allow me to announce her name. I'll call her Mrs X.
Ms X herself was born and lives in Paraguay. Her maternal grandfather was one of
those Cossacks who, having fled the Crimea in 1920, decided to try their luck in
South America - then hundreds of them were lured by fertile lands and
who quickly get to his feet.
Mrs X's aunt married and left for America in 1957. For some
reasons, she almost did not maintain contact with her family, so the message about
inheritance from a childless mother relative became for Mrs X.
unexpected. In addition to a rather significant amount of money, she brought from America
business papers and a box with a manuscript, which, of course, she looked into, but
no more. In my opinion, due to the lack of knowledge of the Russian language, Mrs X.
not really even before three thick notebooks with a mass of
vkle, inherited from her aunt. How Rasputina's manuscript got to her aunt,
she does not know.
In the autumn of 1998, Mrs. X. was shown the books I had published, The Romanovs.
Imperial House in Exile" and "Memoirs" of Prince Yusupov, the killer of Rasputin.
"That's when I thought you might want to publish his daughter's recordings" --
Mrs X explained to me later.
It took us six months to negotiate (after all, everything is only by mail, no
she has no faxes), for several more months the manuscript traveled by sea to
Moscow...
What are the notes of Matryona Rasputina?
This, if you try to define it in one phrase, is an explanation with those
who considers Grigory Rasputin the culprit of almost all the troubles that have befallen
to Russia.
And here it must be said that, blindly acquiring notes from Rasputin's daughter
(Ms. X. did not agree to my preliminary acquaintance with the manuscript), I
acted with some apprehension. It was justified to wait from Matryona
Rasputina variate on the theme of her own notes about her father, published even before
howl - books very naive and completely apologetic. (Separately necessary
talk about a book published in English in the USA in 1977 under two names
-- Pat Barham and Maria Ras -- "Rasputin Beyond the Myth." I even
ordered its translation, but did not publish it - the daughter's share in it
Ras was reduced to transmitting episodes of her father's life, and they, to co,
completely drowned in cranberries and molasses. However, not with notes,
which are in front of you is indisputable.)
This time I was in for a pleasant surprise. Now he is waiting for you. three notebooks,
written in the handwriting of a not too zealous student, turned out to be very entertaining
by reading. Fascinating and informative reading for both the general reader and
narrow specialist.
The book is built as an interpretation of the life of his father - from birth in the village
Pokrovsky to death in the waters of the Neva in Petrograd. And it is in the unexpected (but
always absolutely logical psychologically) interpretation of the actions of Gregory
Rasputin is the beauty of Matryona's notes. At the same time, it is natural that
answering the question "why?", Matrena gives a lot of details,
eluding others, as she writes, "recollectors".
What is the connection between the deaths of the brothers - Mikhail and Grigo Rasputin,
happened to almost forty years; between Elizabeth of England and
Anna Vyrubova; between the craving of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich for hunting and
Russia's entry into the war in the 14th year; between religiosity and eroticism in
Rasputin himself, etc.? Matryona Rasputi knows all this.
How accurate is her knowledge? Exactly enough so that what she is talking about
says, "it was entirely possible." The beauty of recording Matryona Rasputina and
that each reader himself can, if he wants, determine the distance from
possible to actual. By the way, Matryona Rasputina hints at this -
Here, they say, Zhevakhov is talking about this, and Kokovtsov, only they never
understood what they were talking about...
Reading is absolutely not hindered by not always exact following by the author
chronology - only the timeline is preserved, and some events are "put
out of place." "Why?" wins the fight against "when?".
The degree of internal involvement of Matryona in describing the events
is also visible from the way it reflects everyday details. They are far away for her
not the main thing, but she is from that time and cannot neglect them in any way. So
cute details seem to show through the foreground.
A special case is the tone of the notes. No breathing, santi exactly
as much as it should be, so that they do not fold. But no doubt...
Matrena adores her father. But she loves, so to speak, with dignity, leaving behind
others the right to dislike him (do not love, but at least understand, do not
brush it off). And rightly so, it's hard to dismiss. At times on the pages of notes
the temperament, clearly inherited by the daughter from the father, just breaks in.
Probably, it was the temperament that forced Matrena Ras to neglect in
the most tense places by the rules of spelling (of course, the old one), not
speaking of punctuation. She seems to be in a hurry to speak out, sometimes not
adding words or shortening them in the most bizarre way.
Actually, the work of the publisher was reduced to deciphering not words,
very minor styling changes (rule out because as
moving towards the end of the Russian language Matryona became more and more
Americanized), checking quotes and bringing them to the form in which they
reproduced in modern editions.
For ease of reading, I have divided the text into chapters and subchapters and given them
titles. Applications are also added by me.
Finally, I conclude this lengthy explanation with the reader with a brief
reference "Who is who in the memoirs of M. G. Rasputina". I only give names
occupation (at the time of the events described) of the main persons she mentions.

Alexander Mikhailovich (Sandro) - Grand Duke, uncle of Nicholas II,
married to his sister Xenia. . Anastasia Nikolaevna (Stana) - great
princess, daughter of the Montenegrin prince Negosh, wife of Grand Duke Nicholas
Nikolaevich.
Badmaev Petr Alexandrovich - the son of a wealthy Buryat
a cattle merchant, a doctor, used the methods of oriental medicine.
Beletsky Stepan Petrovich - acting Director of the Police Department
assistant minister of the interior.
Botkin Evgeny Sergeevich - the family doctor of the royal family.
Botkina-Melnik is his daughter.
George Buchanan is the British Ambassador to Russia.
Witte Sergei Yulievich - Count, statesman.
Voeikov Vladimir Nikolaevich - palace commandant.
Vyrubova Anna Alexandrovna - maid of honor of Empress Alexandra
Fedorovna and a confidant of the royal family.
Germogenes (Dolganev Georgy Efremovich) - Bishop Sarah and
Tsaritsynsky, retired.
Golovina Maria Evgenievna (Munya) - the bride of Nikolai, brother of Felix
Yusupova, admirer of Rasputin.
Gurko Vladimir Iosifovich - chamberlain, comrade of mini-internal affairs,
dismissed after a scandal involving money fraud.
Dmitry Pavlovich - Grand Duke, cousin of Nicholas II, lover
Felix Yusupov.
Evreinov Nikolai Nikolaevich - a theatrical figure, whether.
Elizaveta Feodorovna (Ella) - Grand Duchess, elder sister
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.
Zhevakhov Nikolai Davidovich - Prince, chamber junker, acting. comrade
Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod.
Iliodor - see Trufanov.
John of Kronstadt (Sergeev John Ilyich) - rector of Andreevsky
Cathedral in Kronstadt, church preacher and writer.
Kovalevsky P. - publicist.
Kovyl-Bobyl Ivan is a publicist.
Kokovtsov Vladimir Nikolaevich - Count, Minister of Finance, after the murder
P.A. Stolypin was appointed Prime Minister (until 1914).
Lakhtina Olga Vladimirovna - the wife of a real stat-skog
adviser, admirer of Rasputin.
Maria Fedorovna - wife of Alexander III, mother of Nicholas II, dowager
empress.
Milntsa Nikolaevna - Grand Duchess, daughter of Montenegrin Prince Negosh,
wife of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich.
Nicholas Nikolaevich - Grand Duke, uncle of Nicholas II.
Paleologist Maurice - Ambassador of France to Russia.
Protopopov Alexander Dmitrievich - the last Minister of Internal Affairs
imperial Russia.
Purishkevich Vladimir Mitrofanovich - large land, deputy II,
III and IV State Duma, the basis of the Union of the Russian people and the "Chamber
Michael the Archangel".
Rodzianko Mikhail Vladimirovich -- large landowner, chairman III
and IV State Duma. He was one of those who explained to Nicholas II
the need to bestow horses in the name of preserving the monarchy.
Rudnev Vladimir Mikhailovich - comrade of the prosecutor Ekaterinoslavsky
district court, in March 1917 included in the Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry
with the assignment "obsle source of irresponsible influence at court."
Simanovich Aron Semenovich - merchant of the first guild, juve, personal
Rasputin's secretary.
Trufanov Sergey Mikhailovich (hieromonk Iliodor) - on how
a promising preacher and zealot of the faith. In 1912 he publicly recanted
"God, Faith and Church".
Feofan (Vasily Bystry) - Bishop, Rector of St. Petersburg Spiritual
Academy and at one time the confessor of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.
Philip is a French adventurer.
Yusupov-Sumarokov-Elston Felix Felixovich - prince, heir
richest fortune in Russia, husband of Irina Alek, daughter of the great
Prince Alexander Mikhailovich, niece of Nicholas II.
The inaccuracies in the text in the spelling of the author's names, surnames and
positions are not specified.

daughters of the most controversial Russian prophet

Matryona Rasputina with her parents.

There were many interesting and bright personalities among the Russian emigrants of the first wave. But one woman attracted special attention, although she herself did not always want it. She herself called herself Maria, although her parents called her Matryona. She was the daughter of the famous royal favorite Grigory Rasputin, and the shadow of her father's ambiguous and loud glory accompanied her from childhood until the last days of her more than difficult life.

Matryona Rasputin.

“I am the daughter of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin. Baptized by Matryona, my family called me Maria. Father - Marochka. Now I am 48 years old. Almost the same as my father was when he was taken away from home by a terrible man - Felix Yusupov. I remember everything and never tried to forget anything that happened to me or my family (no matter how the enemies counted on it). I do not cling to memories, as do those who tend to savor their misfortunes. I just live by them. I love my father very much. Just as much as the others hate him. I can't force others to love him. I do not aspire to this, as my father did not aspire. Like him, I just want understanding. But, I'm afraid - and this is excessive when it comes to Rasputin, "- These are the words from the book “Rasputin. Why?” written by his daughter Matryona. The very one whose hand had once written his last letter under the dictation of his father.

Rasputin family. In the center is the widow of Grigory Rasputin Paraskeva Feodorovna, on the left is his son Dmitry, on the right is his wife Feoktista Ivanovna. In the background - Ekaterina Ivanovna Pecherkina (worker in the house).

By the mid-1930s, only Martron survived from the whole family. Sister Varya died in 1925 in Moscow from typhus. Brother Mitya was sent into exile in 1930 as a "malicious element". Paraskeva Feodorovna's mother and Feoktist's wife went to Salekhard with him. Paraskeva Fyodorovna disappeared on the way. Dmitry himself, his wife and daughter Lisa contracted dysentery and died in 1933, Dmitry was the last, almost on the day of his father's death, December 16.

Barbara Rasputin. Post-revolutionary photo, saved by a friend. Damaged intentionally, for fear of reprisals from the Soviet authorities.

Matryona in October 1917, just a few days before the October uprising, married a Russian officer Boris Nikolaevich Solovyov. They had two daughters - Tatyana and Maria. Even before the birth of the second family emigrated to Romania, then the Czech Republic, Germany. France…

Boris Solovyov and Marochka

Boris Nikolayevich opened a restaurant in Paris, but went bankrupt because his compatriot emigrants came to dine without money. In 1926, Boris Nikolaevich died of tuberculosis, and Matryona had to earn a living for herself and her two children herself.

Remembering that she once studied at the dance school of the ballerina of the Imperial Theaters Deviller in Berlin, she became a cabaret actress.

Matryona Rasputina - dancer of the Imperial cabaret.

Her number was noticed by the manager of one of the English circuses and offered: "If you enter a cage with lions, I'll take it to work." Came in, what to do. She changed her name - on the posters of that time she was recommended as "Marie Rasputin, the daughter of a mad monk." Her formidable "Rasputin" look could make any predator jump into a burning ring.

Her famous Rasputin look alone is enough to stop any predator.

She was a success - entrepreneurs from America soon drew attention to her, invited the Ringling brothers, Barnum and Bailey to perform at the circus, then at the Gardner circus. Once, during a performance, a polar bear attacked her. The tamer career had to be abandoned. A mystical coincidence - once in the Yusupov Palace, her father, mortally wounded, collapsed on the skin of a polar bear - all the newspapers discussed.

Maria Rasputina in the hospital.

Meeting at the restaurant.

After such a grandiose career as a tamer, Maria worked as a nanny, governess, and taught Russian. In 1945, she became a US citizen, went to work at the defense shipyards and worked there as a riveter until her retirement.

Rasputin. Why? Memoirs of Rasputin's daughter Matryona

Matryona Rasputin Rasputin. Why?

Matryona Rasputin

Rasputin. Why?

I am the daughter of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin.

Baptized by Matryona, my family called me Maria.

Father - Marochka.

Now I am 48 years old.

Almost as much as my father was when he was taken away from home by a terrible man - Felix Yusupov.

I remember everything and never tried to forget anything that happened to me or my family (no matter how enemies might count on it).

I do not cling to memories, as do those who tend to savor their misfortunes.

I just live by them.

I love my father very much.

Just as much as the others hate him.

I can't force others to love him.

I do not aspire to this, as my father did not aspire.

Like him, I just want understanding.

But I'm afraid - and this is excessive when it comes to Rasputin.

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There were many interesting and bright personalities among the Russian emigrants of the first wave. But one woman attracted special attention, although she herself did not always want it. She herself called herself Maria, although her parents called her Matryona. She was the daughter of the famous royal favorite Grigory Rasputin, and the shadow of her father's ambiguous and loud glory accompanied her from childhood until the last days of her more than difficult life.

“I am the daughter of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin. Baptized by Matryona, my family called me Maria. Father - Marochka. Now I am 48 years old. Almost the same as my father was when he was taken away from home by a terrible man - Felix Yusupov. I remember everything and never tried to forget anything that happened to me or my family (no matter how enemies might count on it). I do not cling to memories, as do those who tend to savor their misfortunes. I just live by them. I love my father very much. Just as much as the others hate him. I can't force others to love him. I do not aspire to this, as my father did not aspire. Like him, I just want understanding. But I'm afraid - and this is excessive when it comes to Rasputin., - these are the words from the book “Rasputin. Why?” written by his daughter Matryona. The very one whose hand had once written his last letter under the dictation of his father.

By the mid-1930s, only Martron survived from the whole family. Sister Varya died in 1925 in Moscow from typhus. Brother Mitya was sent into exile in 1930 as a "malicious element". Paraskeva Feodorovna's mother and Feoktist's wife went to Salekhard with him. Paraskeva Fyodorovna disappeared on the way. Dmitry himself, his wife and daughter Lisa contracted dysentery and died in 1933, Dmitry was the last, almost on the day of his father's death, December 16.

Matryona in October 1917, just a few days before the October uprising, married a Russian officer Boris Nikolaevich Solovyov. They had two daughters - Tatyana and Maria. Even before the birth of the second family emigrated to Romania, then the Czech Republic, Germany. France…

Boris Nikolayevich opened a restaurant in Paris, but went bankrupt because his compatriot emigrants came to dine without money. In 1926, Boris Nikolaevich died of tuberculosis, and Matryona had to earn a living for herself and her two children herself.

Remembering that she once studied at the dance school of the ballerina of the Imperial Theaters Deviller in Berlin, she became a cabaret actress.

Her number was noticed by the manager of one of the English circuses and offered: "If you enter a cage with lions, I'll take it to work." Came in, what to do. She changed her name - on the posters of that time she was recommended as "Marie Rasputin, the daughter of a mad monk." Her formidable "Rasputin" look could make any predator jump into a burning ring.

She was a success - entrepreneurs from America soon drew attention to her, invited the Ringling brothers, Barnum and Bailey to perform at the circus, then at the Gardner circus. Once, during a performance, a polar bear attacked her. The tamer career had to be abandoned. A mystical coincidence - once in the Yusupov Palace, her father, mortally wounded, collapsed on the skin of a polar bear - all the newspapers discussed.