To understand why Rasputin haunts our screens, we must first separate the man from the monster. Grigori Rasputin was born in 1869 in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye. He was not a monk (the "Mad Monk" label was a media invention). He was a strannik —a religious pilgrim who believed that sinning (including heavy drinking and sexual encounters) was necessary before one could achieve true repentance and closeness to God.
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Historically, the film is a West German production that uses the life of Grigori Rasputin as a loose framework for its plot. To understand why Rasputin haunts our screens, we
20th Century Fox’s animated musical Anastasia is the definitive text for the Rasputin as entertainment content thesis. Here, Rasputin is not a historical figure. He is a full-blown sorcerer with green glowing skin, a batlike familiar (Bartok), and a reliquary full of dark magic. He sells his soul to demonic forces for revenge. He was a strannik —a religious pilgrim who