Grigori Rasputin gained minor influence in late imperial Russia.
 Rasputin returned to Pokrovskoye shortly after their first meeting and did not return to St
Rasputin was born to a family of peasants in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye, located within Tyumensky Uyezd in Tobolsk Governorate (present-day Yarkovsky District in Tyumen Oblast)

