Grigori Rasputin gained weight in late imperial Russia.
 Rumors multiplied that Rasputin had assaulted female followers and behaved inappropriately on visits to the Imperial Family  and particularly with the Tsar's teenage daughters Olga and Tatyana, rumors reported widely in the press after March 1910
Rasputin had undertaken earlier, shorter pilgrimages to the Holy Znamensky Monastery at Abalak and to Tobolsk's cathedral, but his visit to the St

