Are There Any Rasputins Left?

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SOURCES & FURTHER READING

PHOTO SOURCES
Classroom: Terri Heisele
Ice: Bethany Carlson
Road: Brad Harrison
Vodka: Iehel Mor
Horse: John Evans

"Spellbound"
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[NameExplain]

And that's not one of those affiliate links, I'm too lazy and computer illiterate to understand how to do that.

[Ghipoli]

Well considering his sexual life I'm assuming there are like a billion by now.

[ARTexplains]

"After being attacked by a bear, however..." Well, that's an unexpected twist!

[MegaMementoMori]

There is a rumour that Rasputin's son did indeed survive long enough to have a son of his own named Vladimir, who dropped that ridiculous "Ras" part of his surname.

[KING-bttm]

Rasputin never died.

He just took ‘Ras’ out of his name.

[iKrivetko]

Russian language will never recover from this butchery. Great vid as always though!

[MartyFox]

Ra ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen? There is a name that really is gone.

[mchobbit]

Him being known as Gregori Efenovich has nothing to do with his last name being "considered a burden". It's very common to call Russians by their first name and patronymic.

[floppacultist]

Rasputin is still alive and today he works as the president of the Russian federation after a name change

[sheacorduroy]

To quote Nikolai,


“Who are you, Rasputin? Stay dead this time!”

[drperson]

Next you should either make "Are There Any Lenins Left?" or "Are There Any Mussolinis Left?"

[mcgelloe]

In Russian, the letter 'o' is very often pronounced 'a', especially when it's the first vowel of the word. So it's no surprise that Rosputin turned into Rasputin because that's very likely how it was always pronounced

[fernandopaiva]

That smooth rendition of Rasputin at the beginning tho...

[calebc]

Suggestion- are there any Bismarcks left as in Otto Von Bismarck

[youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan]

Why Netherlands call their people as Dutch instead of Netherlanders?
THIS IS MY 51ST PETITION!!!

[jovanweismiller]

Surely you know that Efimovich was his patronymic, and that all Russians have them, even if their father's name is not typically Russian. An example would be the author Valentin Arnoldevich Tomberg.

[TheAnubis]

Who would ever thunk that one of the daughters of Rasputin would live out her life in California !

[treefrog]

"...Is taught in classes throughout the world."
As an American, I can say we don't even mumble the word "Russia" in school. All about 'Murica, you know?

[scythal]

Fun fact: The word "Ras" sounds similar to "Raz", which is the spelling for "One". If you split the name "Rasputin" into "Ras" and "Putin", you could likely call "Rasputin" as "One Putin"

[figeon]

Could you do a video like this about the Romanov Tsar dynasty? They were executed in 1918 after being exiled (as most of you know). But what some don't know is that a lot of the Romanov's extended family fled to Crimea. Are there any descendants of the Romanov alive today? Being a relative of the dynasty that ruled Russia for 300 years should be pretty cool.