1. Maria Rasputin wrote three memoirs about her father, dealing with Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna, the attack by Khionia Guseva, and his 1916 murder.
24 Facts About Maria Rasputin
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Matryona Rasputin was born in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk Governorate, on 26 March 1898, and baptized the next day.
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Seven weeks later, Maria Rasputin left the hospital and returned to St Petersburg.
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Maria Rasputin liked to visit the opera and the Ciniselli Circus.
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On 17 December 1916, Maria Rasputin was lured to the Moika Palace for a house warming party organized by Felix Yusupov, whom Maria Rasputin called "The Little One".
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Maria Rasputin asserts that after the attack by Guseva, her father developed hyperacidity and avoided anything with sugar.
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Rasputin had persuaded Maria to marry Boris Soloviev, the charismatic son of Nikolai Soloviev, the Treasurer of the Holy Synod, and one of her father's admirers.
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Boris, who had studied Madame Blavatsky's theosophy, and hypnotism, attended meetings at which Maria Rasputin's followers attempted to communicate with the dead through prayer meetings and seances.
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Maria Rasputin attended the meetings, but later wrote in her diary that she could not understand why her father kept telling her to "love Boris" when the group spoke to him at the seances.
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Boris and Maria Rasputin escaped to Vladivostok, where they lived for almost a year.
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Maria Rasputin took dancing lessons in Berlin and stayed with Aron Simanovich, her father's former "bookkeeper".
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Maria Rasputin died of tuberculosis in July 1926 in Hopital Cochin.
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Maria Rasputin was offered a job as a cabaret dancer because of her name.
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Maria Rasputin took more dancing lessons to support their two young daughters and invited her sister Varvara to come to Paris, but in 1925 Varvara died in Moscow of typhus.
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Maria Rasputin condemned both men as murderers and said any decent person would be disgusted by the ferocity of Rasputin's killing.
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Maria Rasputin was ordered to leave the country within 90 days, but then, in March 1940, she married Gregory Bernadsky, a childhood friend and former White Russian Army officer, in Miami.
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In 1947 her younger daughter Maria Rasputin married in Paris to Gideon Walrave Boissevain, minister plenipotentiary in Greece, Chile, Israel, then Dutch ambassador to Cuba.
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Maria Rasputin began work as a riveter, either in Miami or in a San Pedro, Los Angeles, California shipyard during World War II.
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Maria Rasputin worked in defense plants until 1955 when she was forced to retire because of her age.
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In 1968, Maria Rasputin claimed to be psychic and said Pat Nixon had come to her in a dream.
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Maria Rasputin had two pet dogs, whom she called Youssou and Pov after Felix Yussupov.
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Maria Rasputin's home was in Silver Lake, an area of east-central Los Angeles with a large Russian-American community.
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Maria Rasputin told her grandchildren that her father taught her to be generous, even in times when she was in need herself.
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Maria Rasputin said she should never leave home with empty pockets, but should always have something to give to the poor.