{"id":2175,"date":"2015-07-12T07:56:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T05:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tacotichelaar.nl\/wordpress\/?page_id=2175"},"modified":"2025-12-27T09:52:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:52:37","slug":"maria-rasputin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tacotichelaar.nl\/wordpress\/biographies-english\/grigorii-rasputin\/maria-rasputin\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Rasputin, tiger trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maria Rasputin<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>(baptized as\u00a0<\/span>Matryona Grigorievna Rasputina<\/b>) 26 March 1898 \u2013 September 27, 1977 was the daughter of the\u00a0<\/span>Russian peasant<\/a>, mystical healer\u00a0<\/span>Grigori Rasputin<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>and his wife Praskovia Fyodorovna Dubrovina.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0<\/span>Felix Yussupov<\/a>, one of the assassins of Grigori Rasputin, published his memoir in 1928 she wrote two memoirs about her father, dealing with\u00a0<\/span>Tsar Nicholas II<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna<\/a>, several politicians, the scandals, the attack by\u00a0<\/span>Khionia Guseva<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>and the murder. A third one,\u00a0<\/span>The Man Behind the Myth<\/i>, was published in 1977 in association with Patte Barham. In her three memoirs, whose reliabilities are questionable,[5]<\/a><\/sup>[6]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>she painted an almost saintly picture of her father, insisting that most of the negative stories were based on\u00a0<\/span>slander<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>and the misinterpretation of facts by his enemies.<\/p>\n

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