History UsefulNotes / RasputinTheMadMonk

* PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians / HeroesOfOlympus: [[AllInTheManualThe Manual]] suggests that he's a son of Hades. Considering that the children of Hades we meet in story tend to be dark (if not necessarily evil), brooding, and somehow subtly wrong, it checks out (for the record, his half-siblings include a voodoo queen's kid who constantly summons cursed jewels, a kid whose only friends are the dead, and Hitler).

* ''DanceInTheVampireBund'' makes him into an alias of a power hungry Vampire Lord who's willing to lie, kill and steal. He's killed some 90 years after the Russian Revolution with the help of Anastasia, who he turned and made his play thing until she escaped him.
** The worse part? [[FridgeHorror He was probably using poor Anastasia as practice to get himself ready for Mina]]

Due to his many affairs and drunkenness (his personal faith required sin, in his case alcohol and sex, followed by repentance), he became a target of anti-Romanov and anti-Tsarist groups in Russia. He was murdered in 1916, ostensibly by Prince Felix Yusupov and a band of his cronies. [[DatedHistory Yusupov's story]] (as embroidered and added to through the years) was that Rasputin was lured to a meeting with Yusupov where he was fed cakes and wine laced with cyanide; when that failed to kill him, he was beaten, shot, stabbed, and thrown into the Neva River, where he died of hypothermia after trying to claw through the ice. In reality, [[BoomHeadshot he was shot in the head with a .455 Webley which killed him instantly]]. No cakes (he had a bad stomach and wouldn't have eaten them even if the cyanide could have survived the baking process), sipped a very small amount of wine, the first shots fired by Yusupov's trembling hand either missed [[OnlyAFleshWound or did not hit vital organs]], no beating, no freezing. Possibly came back to life as Creator/AlanMoore.

'''Grigoriy Yefimovich Rasputin''' (1869-1916) was a Russian mystic and preacher. Born of peasant parents[[note]]his father was a former postman fired for [[VodkaDrunkenski alcoholism]][[/note]], he arrived in Saint Petersburg in the early 20th century, where he had some success in treating Tsarevich Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia. He managed to turn this, and the fascination in upper-class Russian circles with religious mysticism, healing, and sex, into becoming a close associate of the Tsar family and an important figure in pre-revolution Russia. Rasputin also never was an ordained cleric or monk in the Orthodox Church (and had quite a lot of enemies among those), his official status in Orthodox Christianity was that of a lay preacher. However, authors tend to forget that and call him a "mad monk", which was the source of this page's name.

* When Karl Kesel homaged elements of ''{{Kamandi}}'' in ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' he introduced a ''Rat''sputin as the EvilChancellor of Great Caesar.

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* ''Literature/TheLastAmericanVampire'' has protagonist Henry, along with NikolaTesla, involved in killing off Rasputin, who was just a bit much for humans to handle, being a vampire himself.

Due to his many affairs and drunkenness (his personal faith required sin, in his case alcohol and sex, followed by repentance), he became a target of anti-Romanov and anti-Tsarist groups in Russia. He was murdered in 1916, ostensibly by Prince Felix Yusupov and a band of his cronies. [[HistoryMarchesOn Yusupov's story]] (as embroidered and added to through the years) was that Rasputin was lured to a meeting with Yusupov where he was fed cakes and wine laced with cyanide; when that failed to kill him, he was beaten, shot, stabbed, and thrown into the Neva River, where he died of hypothermia after trying to claw through the ice. In reality, [[BoomHeadshot he was shot in the head with a .455 Webley which killed him instantly]]. No cakes (he had a bad stomach and wouldn't have eaten them even if the cyanide could have survived the baking process), sipped a very small amount of wine, the first shots fired by Yusupov's trembling hand either missed [[OnlyAFleshWound or did not hit vital organs]], no beating, no freezing. Possibly came back to life as Creator/AlanMoore.

* Appears in a cameo towards the end of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' as a spirit manifesting from some ectoplasm Mandy has sucked out of Grims' skull, alongside UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun and UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. Mandy immediately asks Attila and Rasputin to tutor her, and for Lincoln to bring them snacks.

* [[GeorgeClinton Funkadelic]] put a photograph of him on the back cover of their album ''One Nation Under a Groove'' with the caption "Rasputin raps" and a word balloon of him saying, "Ahhh - dese Funkadelic ist very good for America!"

* [[HammerHorror Hammer]] did a movie about him called ''Rasputin the Mad Monk'', with Creator/ChristopherLee in the title role.

* ''Literature/TheLastAmericanVampire'' has protagonist Henry, along with Nikola Tesla, involved in killing off Rasputin, who was just a bit much for humans to handle, being a vampire himself.

* The 2007 Russian film ''Conspiracy'' stars Ivan Okhlobystin as Rasputin and blames his death on a complex British conspiracy to keep Russia in the war. The Russian Orthodox Church gave its stamp of approval to the sympathetic portrayal of Rasputin.

* The 2007 Russian film ''Conspiracy'' stars Ivan Okhlobystin as Rasputin and blames his death on a complex British conspiracy to keep Russia in the war.

* Music/Funkadelic put a photograph of him on the back cover of their album ''One Nation Under a Groove'' with the caption "Rasputin raps" and a word balloon of him saying, "Ahhh - dese Funkadelic ist very good for America!"

* Appears as the BigBad of part 5 of ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'s'' ''Reign of Winter'' adventure path. In the ''Pathfiner'' mythos, he is the estranged son of BabaYaga, who abandoned him on Earth. His magic allowed him to communicate with his sister Elvanna on Golarion to conspire against Baba Yaga, kicking off the adventure path's plot. [[spoiler: He also took the time to have an affair with the Tzarina and father Anastasia.]]

* Creator/TomBaker played a darkly charismatic Rasputin in the historical biopic ''Nicholas and Alexandra''.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' Literature/PastDoctorAdventures novel ''Wages of Sin'' is set in pre-Revolution Russia and has Rasputin as a character. It's a historically-straight portrayal mostly, although his famous hard-to-kill-ness does turn out to be due to a time traveller trying to keep him alive.
** He gets [[GambitPileup far more hilarious]] in FactionParadox. To start with, the Faction recruited him a few days before his death, took him to the [[EldritchLocation Eleven-Day Empire]], and replaced him with an exact duplicate. Then the Celestis came along, didn't realise the Faction had made the switch, and offered him their standard deal that includes resurrection. The duplicate had been briefed not to argue with any War-era powers it met, and so accepted the deal. By the time of the assassination attempt, the Great Houses noticed something was going on, assumed the Faction would try to take him to the Empire at the point of death, and so implanted a device that would replace the Faction duplicate with a Great House duplicate. House constructs are by default immune to poisoning. As such, when the poison failed, he was shot. Then the Celesti protocols resurrected him, producing a creature whose mind was struggling between Great Houses, Celesti, and Faction protocols which had to be shot repeatedly and beaten to death simply to get it to lie down long enough to be thrown ino the river, where it finally froze to death. As a result, none of the three powers involved like to talk about it and everyone in the War agreed to leave celebrities well alone. The real Rasputin, meanwhile, persuaded Anastasia (who was also a Faction recruit) to set up a rival state, then went mad and died under mysterious circumstances. Anastasia's Thirteen-Day Republic was shortly afterwards annihilated.

* Like the equally evil JackTheRipper, Mad Monk Rasputin has a bit role in the anime ''Manga/SoulEater''. In a dream sequence, no less!

* [[HammerHorror Hammer]] did a movie about him called ''Rasputin the Mad Monk'', with ChristopherLee in the title role.

* Gert Frobe played Rasputin in ''I Killed Rasputin'', a 1967 French movie.

* A Cahill from the Tomas branch in ''The39Clues''.

* He was the subject of an episode of ''TheCrowStairwayToHeaven''.
* Creator/LeonardNimoy played a Rasputin-like character in "The Choice", an episode of ''MissionImpossible'', indestructibility and all.

* Rasputin shows up among the army of wax droids in an episode of ''Series/RedDwarf'', serving mainly as EmperorCaligula's lackey.

* Announced as the BigBad of part 5 of ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'s'' ''Reign of Winter'' adventure path. Apparently in the ''Pathfinder'' mythos, he is BabaYaga's estranged son. This is the Earth version, not a Galoran equivalent.

* Rasputin raps against JosefStalin [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT2z0nrsQ8o in the Season 2 finale]] of ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory''.

* Appears in a cameo towards the end of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' as a spirit manifesting from some ectoplasm Mandy has sucked out of Grims' skull, alongside AttilaTheHun and UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. Mandy immediately asks Attila and Rasputin to tutor her, and for Lincoln to bring them snacks.

* Appears in a cameo towards the end of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' as a spirit manifesting from some ectoplasm Mandy has sucked out of Grims' skull, alongside AttilaTheHun and AbrahamLincoln. Mandy immediately asks Attila and Rasputin to tutor her, and for Lincoln to bring them snacks.

* Lee's own favourite screen Rasputin was ConradVeidt, who played Rasputin in a 1932 German film. Veidt's performance was noted for being considerably understated in contrast to [[LargeHam some others]], and the film itself reads more like a documentary than a drama--Rasputin isn't portrayed as particularily demonic but as a sympathetic, if lumbering peasant.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOPO8K69u1A "Rasputin"]] by Polish band Kontrust seems to take a satirical look at his relationship with the Tsars.