In Popular Culture
Numerous film and stage productions have been based on the life of Rasputin, and he has appeared as a fictionalized version of himself in numerous other media, as well as having several beverages named after him.
The 1978 disco single "Rasputin" by the Germany-based pop and disco group Boney M references Grigori Rasputin's alleged healing of hemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, and how this endeared him to the boy's mother, the Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna (former Princess Alix of Hesse). Bobby Farrell, who was the band's frontman, passed away in 2010, in the same city and on the same day as the real-life Rasputin.
Rasputin is now the focus of a major new musical theatre work by Peter Karrie.
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