RASPUTIN'S DAUGHTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 168, 17 July 1924, Page 8

RASPUTIN'S DAUGHTER.

One of the daughters of Rasputin, "the mysterious monk," is in Paris, and to a representative of the "Intransigeant" she has told her life story, her plans, and her ambftions. It 13 a mistake, she says, to suppose that her father was a monk. He had been a peasant, a true mojik, all his life, and was keenly interested in religious questions. It was true that lie was subject to mystical crises and that he made long pilgrimages on foot. The Rasputin -family lived in a small flat at Petrograd. The monk received a great deal of money, but, according to his daughter, Marie Gregorievna, he gave it all away. After his death only 3000 roubles were found in the house. Every week it was Rasputin's custom to take his family to the apartments of the Tsaritsa. The Empress made much of his children and loaded them up with sweets. On the fatal evening of 16th December, 1910, he kissed his children, telling their mother that he was going to Prince Yusupoff's, but that he did not want anyone to know. After his tragic death the family returned to their native village in Siberia, where they were troubled by the Monarchists and the Bolsheviks. Imprisoned and released, they became fugitives and exiles, wandering through the world. Two of the children died. Marie Gregorievna, who tells this story, is married and a mother.