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Message:: [QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 6899635, member: 78949"]Me neither. He does not look like Rasputin. Rasputin had lower forehead, he also looked more fierce. This guy is calm and peaceful, I don't see anything fierce in his look, IMO. The face and outfit are typical for an Orthodox priest, it can be anybody. Rasputin was a favourite of tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna (the wife of Nikolay II). The reason was that she was sure he was the only person to help her son, tsarevich Aleksey, who suffered from haemophilia and was often in pain. Tsaritsa claimed that only Rasputin could bring relief to her son. Nikolay II was very much in love with his wife and accepted all her quirks. Rasputin was known for his lust and had many relations with women from the high society. Actually, this is how he was lured into the trap by his assassins - with a promise to see a high society woman in the house of knyaz Yusupov, one of the culprits. Yusupov has written memoirs, very interesting book where he explained a lot about Rasputin and his murder. Yusupov managed to escape the revolution and spent his life in Paris. I have the book in Russian, no idea if it was translated to English. [/QUOTE]