GREGORY RASPUTIN (1869-1916) Postcard «GE Rasputin with his libertines». Moscow: Photogr . Enterprise « Ideal » (stamped on the back). 1914-1916. 8,5 x13 cm.

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Reproduction of a rare snapshot, after its appearance made a lot of noise in high society. From the memoirs of A.A. Vyrubova : «There is a photograph that was reproduced in Russia, as well as in Europe and America. This photograph represents Rasputin sitting in the shape of an oracle among the aristocratic ladies of his harem and confirms, as it were, the enormous influence that he had had in court circles . [...] I can give an explanation of this picture, since I myself am depicted on it. In the first days, only those people who, like Their Majesties, sought clarification on various religious issues, came to Grigory Efimovich; monastery, pr and the Holy Mysteries, the pilgrims gathered around him, listening to his conversations, and I, always «looking for » reli-gious mood and consolation after eternal intrigues and evil of the court situation, listened with interest to the extraordinary conversations of a person who was not at all a scientist, but said that even scholars professors and priests found it interesting to listen. «(Taneyeva ( Vyrubova ) A.A. Pages of my life. M., 2000. P. 141-142).