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by Andy Is Wicked Married to Penal Colony on January 23rd, 2005
UPDATED:
Picky! Picky! I answered the question which was simply what kind of monk was Rasputin. NOT why was he called the "Mad Monk"? The answer was 100% correct because as I stated, he was not (not) a monk at all.
He was not literally a monk. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputin
Rasputin was a Russian mystic with an influence in the later days of Russia's Romanov dynasty. Rasputin was also known as the "Mad Monk", although he was not actually a monk, but a starets, or religious pilgrim.
ALSO UPDATED:
World Book (no reason given, "Mad Monk" not even mentioned)
http://www.aolsvc.worldbook.aol.com/wb/Article?id=ar459990&st=Rasputin
http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa020801a.htm
. . .Rasputin underwent a religious transformation around the age of 18 and spent three months in the Verkhoturye Monastery. . . (perhaps this is where the idea he was a "monk" came from?)
When he returned to Pokrovskoye he was a changed man. Though he married Proskovia Fyodorovna and had three children with her (two girls and a boy), he began to wander as a strannik ("pilgrim" or "wanderer"). During his wanderings, Rasputin traveled to Greece and Jerusalem. Though he often traveled back to Pokrovskoye, he found himself in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in 1903. By then he was proclaiming himself a starets, a holy man, who had healing powers and could predict the future.
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Comments
OK...So why is he known as a 'monk'?
by Lemongrass on January 26th, 2005
Ha ha, that's funny, you did indeed answer the question. Some people are never satisfied!
by mister_c on March 7th, 2005
thanks for that..always good to find some interresting infos!
by Zzzola on March 26th, 2005