Grigori Rasputin in Popular Culture - Other Media

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  • Collectible card game Magic: the Gathering includes a card titled Rasputin Dreamweaver.
  • Todd McFarlane's toy company, McFarlane Toys, made a Rasputin action figure.
  • Skaters Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin performed an ice dance program titled Rasputin in 1991. Choreographed to tell the story of the Romanovs, Bukin as Rasputin "died" four times at the beginning of the program. Rasputin is considered one of the most over-the-top routines ever seen in the melodramatic world of ice dancing, and led to an IOC rule that skaters must not "die" as a part of their routine.
  • North Coast Brewing Company's Old Rasputin Imperial stout bears his name. According to its website, the stout is brewed in the tradition of 18th Century English brewers that supplied the court of Catherine the Great.
  • Rasputin and The Mad Monk appear as playable collectable figures in the Horrorclix game produced by Wizkids Games.
  • In the book Our Dumb Century produced by The Onion, one of the articles for the March 16, 1923 edition is "Russians Continuing to Kill Rasputin", in which Rasputin not only is poisoned, shot, stabbed, and drowned, but is also run over by a freight train, shot from a cannon, set on fire, and decapitated twice (among many other things), yet still refuses to die.

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