Rasputin

The Holy Devil “Few historians figures have been as shrouded in myth and speculation as Grigory Rasputin. At the height of his fame, he was though to be no less than a demonic figure, possessed of supernatural powers, dissolute agent of the forces of evil with an ironclad, perhaps sexual, hold on the throne of Imperial Russia.” ( Grigory Efimovich Rasputin is without a question one of the most scandalous figures in Russian history. He is …

…in his grave for long. Early in March 1917, at a time when the imperial family was prisoners in their own palace, orders were given to remove from a grave Rasputin’s body. The soldiers put the body into a packing case and burnt at the roadside from the forest of Pargolovo. His ashes were then scattered. “Rasputin, having died in water and been buried in earth, was now consigned to fire and the wind” (Rasputin, 341)