Grigory Rasputin News from United Press International. The Soviet Union, which is no more, was created on this date in 1922. It happened at the first Soviet Congress when Russia, Ukraine and two ...

Rasputin was born Grigori Yefimovich Novykh, a Siberian peasant who would later acquire the surname Rasputin because of his sexual promiscuity and heavy drinking. In Russian, “Rasputin ...

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was born in Pokrovskoye in Western Siberia on Jan. 9, 1869. He was baptized the following day, which was the Feast day of St. Gregory of Nyssa, for whom he was named.

"Rasputin," the 1978 Euro-disco hit by Boney M., has gone viral on TikTok. The song was famously a part of the Just Dance game franchise. Its rise to fame on TikTok began in the fall of 2020, and ...