SHADOWED BY A WOMAN.
MONK FATALLY STABBED. i .By Electric Telegraph—( ’opteight] [United Press Association.] < - (Received 11 a.ra.) St. Petersburg, July 13. A woman shadowed a monk named Rasputin for a fortnight and fatally stabbed him in the village of Pokrovsky 1 , Tobolsk. Rasputin was an illiterate Siberian peasant, who gained great influence with the Czar as a miracle-worker. He rose to power in Court circles, because he was the agent for various political cliques and exercised influence in the Beilis case. A monk named Iliodor was imprisoned for thrashing arid denouncing Rasputin as a false prophet.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 70, 14 July 1914, Page 6
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97SHADOWED BY A WOMAN. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 70, 14 July 1914, Page 6
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