| Added to this cocktail were rumours that the tsarina, Alexandra, and her favourite, the infamous Rasputin, were German spies. |
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| Alexandra blamed herself for her son's illness, and in seeking answers to alleviate her guilt, came under the baleful influence of Siberian monk and mystic Rasputin. |
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| Solzhenitsyn also has publicly expressed admiration for some notorious anti-Semites, such as the Slavophile writers Vladimir Soloukhin, Valentin Rasputin, and Vasily Belov. |
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| She should have been has-beened ages ago, what with the forgettable flopped movies and all, but she's like some kind of freaky zombie Rasputin, unkillable. |
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| Last time I saw him he was doing some mystical Rasputin gobbledegoo in Hyde Park. Pathetic. |
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| Russian writer Valentin Rasputin laments the lack of information that we have about Yermak considering the vast scope of his contributions to Russian society. |
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| On the basis of cui prodest, the British and French might have helped kill Rasputin, but the presence of agents from both countries seems unlikely. |
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