Rasputin

Rasputin
/ra spyooh"tin, -tn/; Russ. /rddu spooh"tyin/, n.
1. Grigori Efimovich /gri gawr"ee i fee"meuh vich/; Russ. /grddyi gaw"rddyee yi fyee"meuh vyich/, 1871-1916, Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.
2. any person who exercises great but insidious influence.

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