The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 82

THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1995 J4 LAKE PLACID If QDDDCG Golf Getaway Rasputin is fondly remembered Russia's mad monk is Uncle Grigoty in Pokrovskoye mM- I Hi rit'iM I in s99 Room Rates Starting at $45 Midweek lit-, LAKE PLACID GOLF PACKAGES 3 Day2 MgAfs. GounMf Omtr. 2 Full Bnkttars, 2 Days Uninnifd Qorf DAVE CARPENTER ASSOCIATED PRESS Lake Placid ii ii in-1 1 1 I wtwnw m. Braaktast MO wiium Hoimn Dinim 518-523-2130 TGntuitit Acrosi from Crilj Wood Soil Couria 3 Resort healer in St. Petersburg, he somehow stopped the hemophiliac hemorrhaging of the czar's young son Alexei, heir to the throne.

Czarina Alexandra, convinced thut Rasputin was an emissary from God, brought him into the royu! family's inner circle. Ignoring reports of Rasputin's debauchery, Nicholas allowed the healer to appoint unscrupulous allies to high posts and gain undue political influence. Historians say his disastrous decisions doomed the monarchy and helped set the stage for the Bolsheviks to seize power in 1917. Golden Arrow ON MAIN ST. MIRROR LAKE Lakeview Dining Live Entertainment Indoor A Outdoor Pools Exercise Room OUTSTANDING PACKAGE VALUES European Style Hotel and Ambience.

AH Amenities. 75, Starting at Oddly, it was rock'n'roll that re the farming village of 2,000 people, there is a a small Rasputin museum. It's in a green-shuttered log house across the broad dirt road -Soviet St. from where Rasputin's home stood until 1980. Rasputin held religious gatherings in the cabin, which was his brother-in-law's house.

Now it contains such memorabilia as photographs, his birth certificate, an icon from his church, his old table and a chair that locals swear cures the impotence of men who sit in it. The village also has a Rasputin look-alike. Viktor Prolubshikov, a handyman who says his great-grandmother was Rasputin's maid, bears a startling resemblance to the mystic in his rough cotton tunic and tall black boots, with slicked-down hair parted in the middle. The 45-year-old Prolubshikov is eager to improve Rasputin's battered historical reputation. "There was no evil in him," Prolubshikov said.

"My grandfather told me he was a kind man who loved working on the land. And everyone agreed he had special powers." Rasputin's strange powers, real or imagined, propelled the semi-literate peasant from hard-drinking petty criminal to adviser to Czar Nicholas II. After acquiring a reputation as a vived Rasputin's name throughout the Soviet Union. A catchy song. Rasputin, by the Western group POKROVSKOYE, Russia He was one of this century's most bizarre characters a wild-eyed, wilder-living mystic who started out as a horse thief and became a royal adviser blamed for the downfall of Russia's last czar.

But in the dusty Siberian village where he was born, Grigory Rasputin is still remembered fondly as Uncle Grigory. "This image as an evil fool is not at all the way he was described to us," said Raisa Zaborovets, a pensioner in Pokrovskoye. "He may have been a strange person, but he was clever and he sympathized with the common people." The last village resident to have known Rasputin died two years ago. But just as he proved difficult to kill off in 1916, when nobles poisoned, shot, beat and mutilated him in St. Petersburg before dumping his body in a river, Rasputin's legend survived a decades-long Soviet campaign to erase his memory.

The Communists exiled his relatives, levelled his house in Pokrovskoye, 2,000 kilometres east of Moscow, and even destroyed the small dacha down by the Tura River where Rasputin reputedly entertained female admirers. But for the occasional tourists to Boney was allowed air time in the late 1970s and became a huge aarpm.aarda4UKCii:UitHftJon. GOLF PACKAGES starting at $105 per person, per day, US funds. Great Midweek Savings! Hilton VACATION STATION FOR FAMILIES Kids stay FREE In parents" room Kids eat Package meals FREE MtcttMper a For reservaUora and information cat! your professional travel agent, or call direct: 800-755-5598 or HUton's Resort Do at 800-22 1 -2424 Fat 518-523-1120 The only thing we overtook Is the lake. PAR FOR PAR GOLF hit with silly lyrics like "Rah rah Rah-spoo-teen, Russia's greatest love machine.

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immmmi historian. Smirnov, who opened the museum in Pokrovskoye last year, said of Rasputin: "He gave money to build a school, he built a IjUl il, i 1 I Hi', -til (. -IL jjHl church, he helped people in need -that's what he'll always be remembered for here." i L. IN i A Rales are pet-person, per-niqht, dbl.occupancy. Stand, room, i ax tips aoqi.suu), ro avail.

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