Politics
Grigori Rasputin
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Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Lived here · 1916
Yusupov Palace on Moika
Murdered in the Yusupov Palace on the Moika on 17 Dec 1916 (place of death).
Lived here
Alexander Palace
Summoned to pray for Tsarevich Alexei and received by Nicholas and Alexandra at the Alexander Palace; later audiences were rarer and often routed via Vyrubova.
Lived here
Anna Vyrubova’s House
From c.1908 regularly met the Empress and imperial circle at Vyrubova’s Tsarskoye Selo house near the Alexander Palace — principal unofficial channel to the family.
Lived here
Rasputin’s Apartment
Rasputin lived here with his daughters from 1914 until his murder in December 1916.
Commemorated here
Yelagin Island
After the Yusupov murder his body was weighted and pushed under the ice of the Malaya Nevka near the Yelagin Bridge; recovered days later.
Lived here
Александро-Невская лавра
On first arrival in Petersburg (c.1903) stayed as a pilgrim guest of Archimandrite Theophan in the monastery hostel of Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
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