Biography
Matrena Grigorievna Rasputin, who later changed the name to Maria Rasputin, - the daughter of the well-known Russian elder Grigory Rasputin. After the killing of his father, she left abroad, where she became famous thanks to speeches on a circus arena as a trainer, as well as a writer. Matrena Rasputina wrote several books, including the memories "Rasputin. Why?" About the Father, Emperor Nicholas II and the patroness of Gregory Rasputin, Empress Alexander Fedorovna, and most importantly - his own view on the history of murder.
Matrena Rasputin was born in the small village of Pokrovskoe, which is located on the territory of the modern Tyumen region. She became the youngest of three children in the family of Gregory Rasputin and his wife Praskovia Fedorovna. Matrena had Brother Dmitry and Barbara's sister. When the Father received a high appointment in St. Petersburg, her daughter moved to the capital with him, and her son stayed with her mother in Siberia. It should be noted that, according to eyewitnesses, Matrena was a beloved daughter Grigory Rasputin. The girl studied at the Stebalino-Kamensky private preparatory school, and then in the gymnasium, where he lived at the boarding house.
It was there that, they began to call the new name Maria Rasputin. On holidays and weekends, she together with his sister visited the house of the famous Father. From him, the girl learned to be generous to people, even when the "on the mel" itself. Since childhood, Grigory Rasputin Matrena did not teach not to leave the house with empty pockets, and take something that she could give the poor. It was the daughters that reported to the police on the disappearance of the elder, the day after him brought Prince Felix Yusupov to his house. And according to the legend, the Mattress was noticed by the Father's Kalosh, which were floating from the river. So the body of the Dead Grigory Rasputin was found.
Emigration
After the revolution, Matrena Rasputina left his family to the capital Romania and settled there a dancer in the cabarer. Later, she moved to Paris, where she worked as a governess and again actress Cabaret. On one of the speeches, she was noticed by the Barnum brothers and Bailey Ringling, known in their time the hosts of the circus. They offered her high payment if a woman can enter a cage with lions. Matrain gathered all his bravery, used the "heavy Rasputa view" and fulfilled the task. So she became a trainer of large predators.
Throughout the first half of the 1930s, Matraine Grigorievna tours with the circus ringings, and then goes into a more expensive circus of the Gardner brothers. Her performances were advertised as "the tamer of Lviv and Tigers, the daughter of a famous insane monk, whose feats in Russia surprised the world." With the Gardner troupe, Rasputin traveled almost all the world, but on one of the American ideas on a woman attacked a white bear, after which her career of the circus artist ended.
Matrena continued to drive with a circus, no longer speaking, until he was in Florida, where it settled at the US Department of Defense. In the position of the rivest, she worked the whole second world war, and in 1945 he received the citizenship of the United States. About 10 years old Rasputin gave to the defense enterprises of America, and when he retired by age, he began to work as a nurse in hospitals, nanny in families, a teacher of the Russian language.
Books Matrena Rasputina
The daughter of Gregory Rasputina turned to literary activities after the book of Felix Yusupov was published, in which he described the murder of her father. It was still in the French life. At first, Matrena filed to Yusupov and Grand Dmitry Dmitry Pavlovich Romanova, requested great financial compensation for the moral damage. But this lawsuit was rejected by the Parisian judicial body, since in French law he had no right to consider cases that took place in another state.
Then the book of Matrena Rasputina - memories "Rasputin was written and published. Why? ", Behind who followed two more printed editions in the form of Memoirs daughter Rasputin, Matrena. In addition, a much later woman printed a culinary book, which contained Russian cuisine recipes, which included Favorite dishes Grigory Rasputin.
Personal life
The personal life of Matrena Rasputina developed in October 1917, literally a few days before the October Revolution. She married a Russian officer Boris Nikolayevich Solovyov. Soon the spouses were born the eldest daughter Tatiana, and the younger Maria appeared on the light of emigration. It is noteworthy that one of the girls after many years will be the close friend of Irina Yusupova, the daughter of Felix Yusupov.
Matcher Rasputina's husband opened its own restaurant in Paris, but quickly broke, as Russian immigrants were often unable to pay their orders, but Boris Nikolayevich could not refuse them. By closing a culinary institution, he settled on a car factory, where he fell ill with tuberculosis and died in 1926. Later in America Matraine Grigorievna Rasputina again marries. In 1940, she met an old acquaintance in the pre-revolutionary life in Russia, the White officer Grigory Bernadsky, with whom he lived just over five years.
Death
The last years of life, daughter Rasputin lived in Los Angeles, not far from the legendary Hollywood. She received a solid social security allowance and survived almost 80 years old, almost half a century surviving his brother and sister.
Matraine Rasputin died from a heart attack in the fall of 1977 and was buried at the Cemetery Angel-Roseale. The grandchildren of the daughter of the infamous elder still live in France and the United States, some of them regularly visit Russia.