Here she is in the picture - in the arms of her father. On the left is sister Varvara, on the right is brother Dmitry.
Varya died in Moscow of typhus in 1925, Mitya - in exile, in Salekhard. In 1930 he was exiled there together with his mother Paraskeva Fedorovna and his wife Feoktista. Mother did not reach the exile, she died on the way.
Dmitry died of dysentery on December 16, 1933, the anniversary of his father's death, outliving his wife and little daughter Lisa by three months.
Barbara Rasputin. Post-revolutionary photo, saved by a friend. Damaged intentionally, for fear of reprisals from the Soviet authorities.
Rasputin family. In the center is the widow of Grigory Rasputin Paraskeva Feodorovna, on the left is his son Dmitry, on the right is his wife Feoktista Ivanovna. In the background - Ekaterina Ivanovna Pecherkina (worker in the house).
The frozen body of G. Rasputin, found in the Malaya Nevka near the Bolshoi Petrovsky Bridge.
On the night of December 17, 1916, Rasputin was killed in the Yusupov Palace on the Moika. A note was found in his old sheepskin coat (Matryona wrote, according to her father):
“I feel like I will be gone before the first of January. I want to tell the Russian people, Dad, Mom and children what they should do. If I am killed by ordinary murderers and my fellow peasants, then, Tsar of Russia, you will not have to be afraid for your children. They will reign for many more centuries. But if the nobles destroy me, if they shed my blood, then their hands will be stained with my blood for twenty-five years and they will leave Russia. Brother will rise on brother. They will hate and kill each other, and there will be no peace in Russia for twenty-five years. King of the Russian land, if you hear the ringing of a bell that tells you that Gregory has been killed, know that one of yours arranged my death, and none of you, none of your children will live more than two years. They will be killed...
I will be killed. I am no longer among the living. Pray! Pray! Stay strong. Think of your blessed family!"
In October 1917, shortly before the uprising, Matryona married officer Boris Nikolaevich Solovyov, a participant in the attempt to free Nicholas II during his Siberian exile.
Two girls were born in the family, named after the Grand Duchesses - Tatyana and Maria. The latter was born already in exile, where Boris and Matryona fled from Russia.
Prague, Berlin, Paris… The wanderings were long. In 1926, Boris died of tuberculosis and Marochka (as her father affectionately called her) was left with two children in her arms with almost no means of subsistence. The restaurant opened by her husband went bankrupt: poor emigrants often dined there on credit.
Matryona goes to work as a dancer in a cabaret - the dance lessons that she took in Berlin from the ballerina of the Imperial Theaters Deviller finally came in handy.
During one of the performances, the manager of an English circus approached her:
- If you enter a cage with lions, I'll take you to work.
Matryona crossed herself and entered.
Posters of those years advertised it like this:
"Marie Rasputin, daughter of a mad monk who became famous for his exploits in Russia!".
It was said that one of her famous "Rasputin" look is enough to stop any predator.
Soon, American entrepreneurs became interested in the young tamer, and Matrena, having moved to the USA, began working in the circus of the Ringling brothers, Barnum and Bailey, as well as in the Gardner circus.
She left the arena only after she was once wounded by a polar bear. Then all the newspapers started talking about a mystical coincidence: the skin of the bear, on which the murdered Rasputin fell, was also white.
Later, Matryona worked as a nanny, a nurse in a hospital, gave Russian language lessons, met with journalists, wrote a large book about her father called Rasputin. Why?, which was repeatedly published in Russia.
Matrena Grigorievna died in 1977 in California from a heart attack at the age of 80. Her grandchildren still live in the West.One of the granddaughters, Laurence Io-Soloviev, lives in France, but often visits Russia.
Laurence Io-Solovieff (Laurence Huot-Solovieff) is the great-granddaughter of G. Rasputin.
I am the daughter of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin.
Baptized by Matryona, my family called me Maria.
Father - Marochka. Now I am 48 years old.
Almost as old as my father
when he was taken away from home by a terrible man - Felix Yusupov.
I remember everything and never tried to forget anything
from what happened to me or my family
(no matter how the enemies count on it).
I don't cling to memories like those do
who tend to savor their misfortunes.
I just live by them.
I love my father very much.
Just as much as the others hate him.
I can't force others to love him.
I do not aspire to this, as my father did not aspire.
Like him, I just want understanding. But I'm afraid - and this is excessive when it comes to Rasputin.
/From the book "Rasputin. Why?"/
Matrena Rasputin - the eldest daughter of Grigory Rasputin - was born in 1898. Soon after the revolution, Matryona and her husband managed to leave Russia. Matrena Grigoryevna wrote her notes about her father from 1946 to 1960.
What are the notes of Matryona Rasputina?
This, if you try to define it in one phrase, is an explanation with those who consider Grigory Rasputin to be the culprit of almost all the troubles that have befallen Russia. The book is built as an interpretation of the father's life - from birth in the village of Pokrovsky to death in the waters of the Neva in Petrograd. And it is precisely in the unexpected (but always absolutely logical psychologically) interpretation of the actions of Grigory Rasputin that the charm of Matryona's notes lies. At the same time, it is natural that, answering the question “why?”, Matryona conveys a lot of details that eluded other, as she writes, “memories”.
What is the connection between the deaths of the brothers - Mikhail and Grigory Rasputin, which happened with an almost forty-year gap; between Elizabeth of England and Anna Vyrubova; between Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich's passion for hunting and Russia's entry into the war in 1414; between religiosity and eroticism in Rasputin himself, etc.? Matryona Rasputina knows all this.
How accurate is her knowledge? Just enough so that what she says "was quite possible." The beauty of the notes of Matryona Rasputina is that each reader himself will be able, if he wants, to determine the distance from the possible to the actual.
From the publisher
Matrena Rasputina - the eldest daughter of Grigory Rasputin - was born in 1898. On October 5, 1917, she married officer Boris Solovyov. Soon after the revolution, Matryona and her husband managed to leave Russia. The family settled in Paris. In 1924, her husband died. Matryona was left with two daughters in her arms, practically without funds. By that time, she began her career as a (rather successful) dancer. Later, already in America, Matrena mastered a profession, perhaps more in line with her temperament - a tiger tamer.
She died in Los Angeles (California, USA) in 1977 from a heart attack.
Her notes about her father - she called them in a foreign way "Rasputin. Why?" - Matrena Grigorievna (however, in America she was known as Maria) wrote from 1946 to 1960. For unknown reasons, she herself did not publish them, although she tried - she even agreed to their use by her American neighbor in a nursing home (see below).
I purchased this manuscript in 1999 from its last owner, who for some reason did not allow me to reveal her name. I'll call her Mrs X.
Ms X herself was born and lives in Paraguay. Her maternal grandfather was one of those Cossacks who, having fled the Crimea in 1920, decided to try their luck in South America- then hundreds of them were lured by fertile lands and the ability to quickly get back on their feet.
Matryona Rasputin
Rasputin. Why?
I am the daughter of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin.
Baptized by Matryona, my family called me Maria.
Father - Marochka.
Now I am 48 years old.
Almost as much as my father was when he was taken away from home by a terrible man - Felix Yusupov.
Of the entire family of Grigory Rasputin, only she survived. Here she is in the picture - in the arms of her father. On the left is sister Varvara, on the right is brother Dmitry. Varya died in Moscow from ...
Of the entire family of Grigory Rasputin, only she survived.
Here she is in the picture - in the arms of her father. On the left is sister Varvara, on the right is brother Dmitry.
Varya died in Moscow of typhus in 1925, Mitya died in exile in Salekhard. In 1930 he was exiled there together with his mother Paraskeva Fedorovna and his wife Feoktista. Mother did not reach the exile, she died on the way.
Dmitry died of dysentery on December 16, 1933, the anniversary of his father's death, outliving his wife and little daughter Lisa by three months.
Barbara Rasputin. Post-revolutionary photo, saved by a friend. Damaged intentionally, for fear of reprisals from the Soviet authorities.
Rasputin family. In the center is the widow of Grigory Rasputin Paraskeva Feodorovna, on the left is his son Dmitry, on the right is his wife Feoktista Ivanovna. In the background - Ekaterina Ivanovna Pecherkina (worker in the house).
The frozen body of G. Rasputin, found in the Malaya Nevka near the Bolshoi Petrovsky Bridge.
On the night of December 17, 1916, Rasputin was killed in the Yusupov Palace on the Moika. A note was found in his old sheepskin coat (Matryona wrote, according to her father):
“I feel like I will be gone before the first of January. I want to tell the Russian people, Dad, Mom and children what they should do. If I am killed by ordinary murderers and my fellow peasants, then, Tsar of Russia, you will not have to be afraid for your children. They will reign for many more centuries. But if the nobles destroy me, if they shed my blood, then their hands will be stained with my blood for twenty-five years and they will leave Russia. Brother will rise on brother. They will hate and kill each other, and there will be no peace in Russia for twenty-five years. King of the Russian land, if you hear the ringing of a bell that tells you that Gregory has been killed, know that one of yours arranged my death, and none of you, none of your children will live more than two years. They will be killed...
I will be killed. I am no longer among the living. Pray! Pray! Stay strong. Think of your blessed family!"
Among the Russian emigrants of the first wave there were many interesting and bright personalities. But one woman attracted Special attention even though she didn't always want to. She herself called herself Maria, although her parents called her Matryona. She was the daughter of the famous royal favorite Grigory Rasputin, and the shadow of her father's ambiguous and loud glory accompanied her from childhood to last days her more than difficult life.
“I am the daughter of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin. Baptized by Matryona, my family called me Maria. Father - Marochka. Now I am 48 years old. Almost the same as my father was when he was taken away from home by a terrible man - Felix Yusupov. I remember everything and never tried to forget anything that happened to me or my family (no matter how the enemies counted on it). I do not cling to memories, as do those who tend to savor their misfortunes. I just live by them. I love my father very much. Just as much as the others hate him. I can't force others to love him. I do not aspire to this, as my father did not aspire. Like him, I just want understanding. But I'm afraid - and this is excessive when it comes to Rasputin., - these are the words from the book “Rasputin. Why?” written by his daughter Matryona. The very one whose hand had once written his last letter under the dictation of his father.
By the mid-1930s, only Martron survived from the whole family. Sister Varya died in 1925 in Moscow from typhus. Brother Mitya was sent into exile in 1930 as a "malicious element". Paraskeva Feodorovna's mother and Feoktist's wife went to Salekhard with him. Paraskeva Fyodorovna disappeared on the way. Dmitry himself, his wife and daughter Lisa contracted dysentery and died in 1933, Dmitry was the last, almost on the day of his father's death, December 16.
Matrena in October 1917, just a few days before the October uprising, married a Russian officer Boris Nikolaevich Solovyov. They had two daughters - Tatyana and Maria. Even before the birth of the second family emigrated to Romania, then the Czech Republic, Germany. France…
Boris Nikolayevich opened a restaurant in Paris, but went bankrupt because his compatriot emigrants came to dine without money. In 1926, Boris Nikolaevich died of tuberculosis, and Matryona had to earn a living for herself and her two children herself.
Remembering that she once studied at the dance school of the ballerina of the Imperial Theaters Deviller in Berlin, she became a cabaret actress.
Her number was noticed by the manager of one of the English circuses and offered: “If you enter a cage with lions, I’ll take it to work.” Came in, what to do. She changed her name - on the posters of that time she was recommended as "Marie Rasputin, the daughter of a mad monk." Her formidable "Rasputin" look could make any predator jump into a burning ring.
She was a success - entrepreneurs from America soon drew attention to her, invited the Ringling brothers, Barnum and Bailey to perform at the circus, then at the Gardner circus. Once, during a performance, a polar bear attacked her. The tamer career had to be abandoned. A mystical coincidence - once in the Yusupov Palace, her father, mortally wounded, collapsed on the skin polar bear- discussed all the newspapers.
To the 97th anniversary of the assassination of the Tsar's Friend...
Grigory Efimovich Rasputin-New was born on January 9 (21), 1869 in the village of Pokrovsky in the family of a peasant Efim Yakovlevich Rasputin (12/24/1841-autumn 1916) and Anna Vasilievna, nee Parshukova (1839 / 40-01/30/1906). It was an ordinary, unremarkable family among several dozen other families in the settlement of Pokrovskaya. It must be said that the ancestors of Grigory Efimovich settled here from the middle of the 17th century. and were already indigenous Siberians. By that time, Gregory was already the fifth child in this family. After the marriage of his parents, which took place on January 21, 1862, the following were born in succession:
Evdokia (11.02.1863-26.06.1863)
Evdokia (??.08.1864-until 1887)
Glyceria (05/08/1866-until 1887)
Andrei (08/14/1867-December 1867)
Grigory (01/09/1869-12/17/1916)
Andrei (11/25/1871-until 1887)
Tikhon (06/16/1874-06/17/1874)
Agrippina (06/16/1874-06/21/1874)
Feodosia (05/25/1875-after 1900)
Anna (?-?)
another baby (?-?)
Efim Yakovlevich Rasputin. 1914
As you can see, out of nine children born, only two survived to adolescence - Grigory himself and his sister Theodosia. The latter married a peasant, Daniil Pavlovich Orlov, from the village of Kosmakov. There were children in this marriage, whose godfather was Grigory Efimovich.
G. E. Rasputin with his sister Theodosia
Grigory Efimovich himself married at the age of eighteen a peasant woman Paraskeva Fedorovna Dubrovina (10/25/1865-1930). The wedding was on February 2, 1887, and a year and a half later they had their first child. In total, Grigory Efimovich and Paraskeva Feodorovna had seven children:
Mikhail (09/29/1888-04/16/1893)
Anna (01/29/1892-05/03/1896)
George (25.05.1894-13.09.1894)
Dmitry (10/25/1895-12/16/1933)
Matryona (aka Maria) (03/26/1898-09/27/1977)
Varvara (28.11.1900-1925)
Paraskeva (10/11/1903-12/20/1903)
Grigory with his wife Paraskeva Fedorovna
Children: Matryona, Varvara (in the arms of her father) and Dmitry
After approaching Gr. Rasputin with the Royal Family, daughters Matryona and Varvara moved first to Kazan, and then to St. Petersburg, where they studied at school. The son, Dmitry, remained on the farm in Pokrovsky.
Matryona and Varvara in St. Petersburg
After the revolution, the fate of those children who remain in Russia will be rather sad.
Varvara will never marry anyone, and after all the ordeals she will die in Moscow in 1925 from typhus and tuberculosis.
Barbara after the revolution
Dmitry on February 21, 1918 marries Feoktista Ivanovna Pecherkina (1897/98-09/05/1933). Until 1930, he lived with his wife and mother in Pokrovsky, and then the order came and they were dispossessed of kulaks and sent into exile in Obdorsk (Salekhard). On the way, the widow of Grigory Efimovich dies, three years later Feoktista Ivanovna dies of tuberculosis, and after her, three months later, Dmitry himself dies of dysentery. After that, there are no direct descendants of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin in Russia.
Family of Grigory Rasputin in 1927.
From left to right: son Dmitry Grigorievich, widow Paraskeva Fedorovna,
Elizaveta Ivanovna Pecherkina (worker in the house and relative of Dmitry's wife),
wife of Dmitry Feoktista Ivanovna
The fate of Matryona was different. The people's blogger of Russia recently told about this story sadalskij DAUGHTER OF RASPUTIN. It remains to add only a few touches.
In September 1917, she marries Boris Nikolaevich Solovyov (1893-1926), the son of a close friend of G. E. Rasputin, an official of the Holy Synod Nikolai Vasilyevich Solovyov (1863-1916). In 1920, their daughter Tatyana (1920-2009) was born, and two years later, already in exile, the second daughter, Maria (03/13/1922-04/19/1976).
The first husband of the daughter of Gr. Rasputin Matryona Boris Nikolaevich Solovyov
After the death of her husband, Matryona toured the world with a circus, until in the late 1930s. does not permanently move to the United States.
Matryona performs at the circus
Here she marries for the second time, for a Russian emigrant, a certain Grigory Grigorievich Bernadsky, whom she knew back in Russia. The marriage lasted from February 1940 to 1945.
Matryona Rasputina with her second husband Grigory Bernadsky in 1940
Matrena (right) with her friend Pat Barham (left) and famous
American actress Phyllis Diller (center). 1970s
Two granddaughters Gr. Rasputin completely settled abroad and both got married.
In Verkhoturye in 1909.
From left to right: Hieromonk Ioanniky (Malkov), Bishop Feofan (Bystrov),
monk Macarius (Polikarpov), Grigory Efimovich Rasputin-New
Tatyana Borisovna (presumably her last name in marriage was Frerjean) gave birth to three children: Serge (b. 07/29/1939), Michel (b. 08/06/1942) and Laurens (b. 11/30/1943). Her last daughter - Laurence Io-Soloviev - repeatedly visited Russia, including the village of Pokrovskoye. Serge has children: Valerie (b. 1963) and Alexandra (b. 1968); Basil was born to Valerie in 1992. Michel had a son, Jean-Francois (1968-1985). Laurence herself has two children: Maude (b. 1967) and Carol (b. 1966).
Matryona Rasputin-Soloviev with her daughters Tatyana and Maria in 1928
Great granddaughter Gr. Rasputin Laurence Io-Soloviev
Maria Borisovna married the Dutch diplomat Gideon Walrave Boissevain (1897-1985), from whom she gave birth to a son, Serge (07/10/1947-01/03/2011) and had two granddaughters: Katya (b. 1970) and Embre (b. 1978). Interestingly, being in Greece with her husband in the late 1940s. Maria met and became friends with the daughter of Felix Yusupov, Irina (1915-1983), and their children, Serge and Ksenia (b. 1942), played children's games together.
Maria Borisovna Solovieva (married Boissevain)
Portrait of G. E. Rasputin by the artist Theodora Krarup.
Finished four days before the assassination - December 13, 1916
Group about Grigory Efimovich Rasputin VKontakte.
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