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| “ | You think you can banish the great Rasputin? By the unholy powers vested in me, I banish you! With a curse! Mark my words, you and your family will die within a fortnight. I WILL NOT REST I SEE THE END OF THE ROMANOV LINE FOREVER!! | „ |
| ~ Rasputin casting a curse upon Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov family. |
| “ | Now, my dark purpose will be fulfilled, and the last of the Romanovs will DIE!!! | „ |
| ~ Rasputin upon getting his reliquary back before his song "In The Dark Of The Night" starts, and his most famous quote. |
| “ | Do svidanya, Your Highness. | „ |
| ~ Rasputin to Anastasia. |
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Russian: Григорий Ефимович Распутин), or better known as his surname Rasputin the Mad Monk, is the main antagonist of Don Bluth's ninth animated feature film Anastasia. He is loosely based on the real-life Russian psychic of the same name, but in the film, he is depicted as a far more malevolent being of black magic rather than more like the real-life Rasputin, though the two share the common title of "Mad Monk". He is Anastasia and Dimitri's arch-nemesis and Bartok's former master.
He was voiced by Christopher Lloyd who also played Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Reggie Shand in Walk Like a Man, The Hacker in Cyberchase, Merlock in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Lord Imaru in The Secret Treasure of Machu Picchu by Golden Films, Mr. Clipboard in Foodfight!, Bill Crowley in I Am Not A Serial Killer, Dr. Heep in Baby Geniuses, Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Switchblade Sam in Dennis the Menace, Master Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts, Professor Plum in Clue, Stan Cruge in Santa Buddies, Helgait in The Mandalorian and Pachacamac in Knuckles, while his singing voice was provided by Jim Cummings, who also played Razoul in Disney's Aladdin, Ed the Hyena in Disney's The Lion King, Long John Silver in The Pagemaster, Steele in Balto, and was also half of the singing voice of Scar in Disney's The Lion King, Don Karnage in TaleSpin, Kaa in The Jungle Book 2, Lidong in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, the Bears in Sing, and Hondo Ohnaka in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Biography[]
First Death[]
| “ | But, I am your confidant. | „ |
| ~ Rasputin's first words. |
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin started out as a supposed confidant and advisor to the Romanovs, the royal Russian family. At some point in his life, Rasputin met the bat Bartok, whom he took in as his pet. However, despite being thought as a holy man, Rasputin was a fraud who tried to take over Russia for himself behind the family's back, so he was banished for treason by the Russian Tsar Nicholas II. One night in 1916, in the middle of a party, Rasputin visited the Russian palace to confront Nicholas, who ordered him to leave. Rasputin protested that he was his confidant, to which Nicholas responded that he was a traitor and reiterated his orders to leave. Growing angry, Rasputin threatened Nicholas for daring to banish him, putting him and his family under a spell to die within a fortnight, destroying the palace's chandelier as a warning.
Eager to get revenge for his banishment, Rasputin planned on destroying the Russian royalty. He sold his spirit to the otherworldly forces of darkness in exchange for his reliquary and for the power to kill Nicholas II and his family, becoming a lich (a type of undead creature with magical powers) in the process. He then returns to the Russian palace two weeks later and inflicts the Romanovs with his spell, sending the Bolsheviks and numerous Russian soldiers to execute Nicholas and his family, except for Nicholas' mother Marie and his young daughter Anastasia. Rasputin eventually attempts to murder Anastasia with his bare hands while chasing her across a frozen river. Jumping from the bridge above, he tackles the young girl face first onto the thin ice, losing his reliquary in the process. He viciously grabs her by the leg and thrashes her about, vowing that she'll never escape from his clutches whilst she begs for mercy. However, the ice under the evil man begins to break before he can get any closer to the young Romanov. Marie quickly rushes her away from Rasputin, who drowns and ends up being trapped in limbo due to the curse being unfulfilled, leaving Bartok with his reliquary.
Despite Rasputin's demise, his actions were enough to cause the downfall of the Russian monarchy (due to the deaths of the Romanov family) and the creation of the Soviet Union under the Communist and Bolshevik rule, and Marie was separated from Anastasia, who is sent to an orphanage after losing her memories.
Return from 10 years after[]
| “ | Rasputin: Anastasia, your Imperial Highness. Look what ten years has done to us; you are a beautiful young flower. And me..... a rotting corpse. Anastasia: That face... Rasputin: Last seen at a party like this one. Anastasia: A curse... Rasputin: Followed by a tragic night on the ice. REMEMBER?! (curses entire area) Anastasia: Rasputin! Rasputin: "Rasputin!" [giggles] Destroyed by your despicable family! But what goes around comes around; And around, and around, and AROUND, AND AROUND! |
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| ~ Rasputin confronting Anastasia on the bridge of Pont Alexandre III. |
10 years later in 1926, Rasputin is still trapped in limbo, fuming over his failure of the curse against the Romanov family. However, his reliquary is brought back to his hands thanks to Bartok, who informs that Anastasia (under the name Anya) is still alive and in heading to France with two con artists named Vladimir and Dimitri. Driven more by his intense and malevolent desire for revenge, Rasputin wishes to finish off what he started before he rests in peace by killing “Anya”.
Using his reliquary, Rasputin summons his army of green demons to kill Anya and complete his revenge. He has the demons sabotage the train that Anya, Dimitri and Vlad are on by separating the train with an engine and baggage car from the dining car and coaches in Poland. However, Anya, Vladimir, and Dimitri jump off the train to avoid falling to their deaths, much to Rasputin's fury.
Later, Anya, Dimitri, and Vlad arrive in from Stralsund, Germany, and board a ship to Paris. That night, as Anya sleeps, Rasputin invades her dreams and causes her to sleepwalk to the edge of the ship. Luckily, Dimitri (alerted by Anya's pet puppy Pooka) awakens and rescues Anya at the last second.
Enraged at the failure, Rasputin throws a childish tantrum. Recomposing himself, he tells Bartok that he will go to Paris himself and kill Anastasia in person. At that same time, Anya regains her memories and reunites with Marie, taking back the name Anastasia.
Ultimate Death[]
| “ | Anastasia: This is for Dimitri! Rasputin: Give it back! Anastasia: This is for my family! Rasputin: I'll tear you to pieces!! Anastasia: And this, this is for you! Rasputin: No! Anastasia: Dosvidanya! |
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| ~ Rasputin's last words as Anastasia destroys his reliquary, killing him. |
Later, Rasputin takes advantage of Pooka to lead Anastasia into a garden maze and traps her there to reveal himself. He then tries to kill her on the Alexander Bridge over an icy Seine River, mimicking the same tragic night on the ice they once shared before. Dimitri returns to save her, but is injured and knocked unconscious by a large pegasus statue that Rasputin brought to life with his reliquary.
Just when Rasputin was inches from winning, Anastasia gathers her strength and attacks Rasputin. Pooka snatches the reliquary, and it rolls to Anastasia's feet. Anastasia stomps on the reliquary, causing it to burst and for the pegasus statue to be destroyed. As payback for murdering her mom, dad, sisters & brother, for trying to hurt Dimitri and for all the anguish Rasputin had caused her when she was young, Anya furiously smashes the reliquary to pieces, causing an explosion that releases the demons.
As Rasputin looks up, he sees his demons flying towards him as they are about to collect his spirit as punishment for his failure to murder Anastasia. Rasputin screams in horror as the demons send down several bolts of their dark magic, hitting Rasputin and collecting his spirit as his skin turns to liquid and he crumples to the floor, tearing off his cloak as his skeleton violently twitches before turning to a pile of dust and being blown away by the wind.
While not stated in the film, the tie-in picture book specifies that due the reliquary's destruction and his inability to fulfill his part of the deal, Rasputin was dragged to Hell for eternity.
Appearance[]
Rasputin is a tall, scary-looking man. He wears a brown robe (however, in the books it has a gold interior) with black shoes which appear to be high heeled. He wears some sort of purple clothing beneath his robe, but the only part of this that is shown is the sleeves. His robe trails along the ground. He has black hair that is tied back into a ponytail and has a black mustache that connects to his long black beard going below his waist. His skin is a rotting, pale green color, and he has skeletal long fingers and fingernails. He has a hood that hangs off of the back of the neck of his robe. Around his waist is a gold rope sash with three beads. The rope is tied around his Reliquary which hang at his shins. His sleeves go as long as his waist. Another noticeable feature is that he appears to be wearing nothing under his robe, yet he has a strange purple clothing at the neck and sleeves.
After selling his soul, Rasputin is thus transformed into an undead being with supernatural powers (especially skillful evocation of strange green demons), resulting from a Reliquary made of glass, which he is linked to. Being undead for almost 10 years, his body is now rotten and unstable, though it still looks generally the same: it follows that on numerous occasions Rasputin loses one or more pieces of his body, though he can still put himself back together.
Personality[]
| “ | His name was Rasputin. We thought he was a holy man, but he was a fraud. Power-mad and dangerous. | „ |
| ~ A description of Rasputin by the narrator (voiced by the late Angela Lansbury) who also voiced Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. |
Throughout the film, Rasputin was portrayed as a very manipulative, diabolical, arrogant and wicked man, to the point of killing an entire family without any remorse. He is the type of man who is capable of giving everything to fulfill their promises, bequeathing to the point of selling his soul to dark forces just to have the power to destroy the Romanov family. He is also seen to be somewhat reckless, obsessive, spontaneous and impulsive with his objectives when they are not achieved, such as the case of Anastasia. He is a man of crude and abusive nature, as shown by him constantly hitting his assistant Bartok.
Quotes[]
| “ | Go... fulfill your dark purpose. Seal the fate of the Czar and his family once and for all. | „ |
| ~ Rasputin after selling his soul to gain the power to manipulate the Bolsheviks and the Russian military into turning against and murder the Romanov family |
| “ | You'll never escape me, child! Never! | „ |
| ~ Rasputin attempt to attack Anastasia in the icy lake, right before his initial death. |
| “ | Rasputin: Who dares intrude on my solitude?! Get out! GET OUT!! GET OU- Bartok! Is that you? Bartok: Master, you're alive? Rasputin: Yes! In a manner of speaking! Bartok: Whoa! That fell right out there, sir. |
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| ~ Rasputin meeting Bartok in limbo. |
| “ | I knew it! I could feel the dark forces stirring! | „ |
| ~ Rasputin |
| “ | Bartok: I'm not surprised, Sir. Because I saw her. Anastasia! Rasputin: Anastasia is alive?! |
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| ~ Rasputin being surprised to see Anastasia is still alive. |
| “ | That's why I am stuck here in Limbo! My curse is unfulfilled! | „ |
| ~ Rasputin realizing his fate in limbo after learning that Anastasia is still alive |
| “ | Look at me! I'm falling apart! I'm a wreck! | „ |
| ~ Rasputin complaining about his body parts falling apart due to his curse being unfulfilled |
| “ | Bartok: C'mon, for a minute there, you had your own spark back. Rasputin: If only I hadn't lost the gift from the dark forces, and the key to my powers! Bartok: What, ya mean this reliquary? Rasputin: Where'd you get that? Bartok: Oh, I found it! Rasputin: GIVE IT TO ME! Bartok: Alright, alright! Don't get so grabby! Rasputin: My old friend! Together again! |
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| ~ Rasputin to Bartok's gift from reliquary. |
| “ | Bartok: You're right, it's very upsetting, sir. Well, I guess this reliquary is broken! Rasputin: YOU IDIOT!! I sold my soul for this. My life are very existence depends on it. And you almost destroyed it! Bartok: I get it! I get it! Ya break it, ya bought it! Rasputin: See that, you remember? You miserable rodent! |
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| ~ Rasputin berating Bartok for almost destroying the reliquary. |
| “ | No! I have something else in mind. Something more enticing. Something really.. cruel! | „ |
| ~ Rasputin's grinning evilly as he plans his next move to kill Anastasia. |
| “ | Pleasant dreams to you, Princess. I'll get inside your mind, where you can't escape me. | „ |
| ~ Rasputin invading Anastasia's dreamscape |
| “ | Rasputin: NOOOOOOO!!! Bartok: Easy, master. Wow! This is no time for lose your head! Rasputin: You're right. I'm chan. I am highless. I have no felling what so ever. |
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| ~ Rasputin's breakdown after his second failure to kill Ananstasia. |
| “ | I feel a sudden onset of clarity, Bartok. I'll have to kill her myself in person. | „ |
| ~ Rasputin realizing that he will have to leave limbo to personally kill Anastasia. |
| “ | Rasputin: I have so many fond memories of Paris. And killing the last of the Romanovs with my own hands will be so delicious! Well, time to go. Bartok: But you're dead! You're falling apart, sir! How do you expect to get to Paris in one piece? Rasputin: I thought we'd take the train. |
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| ~ Rasputin before leaving with Bartok to Paris. |
| “ | Rasputin: Bartok! Get me a comb! Find some cologne! I want to look my best tonight! Bartok: That might take some work, sir. Rasputin: Then snap to it! We're going to a party! Bartok: Did you say a party in Paris? Rasputin: That's right! |
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| ~ Rasputin to Bartok about a party following Anastasia and Marie's reunion. |
| “ | Rasputin: We'll let the grand duchess Anastasia have her moment! Bartok: What who cares? Rasputin: And then, we'll kill her! Bartok: What? Kill her?! Sir, what happened to the party idea?! Rasputin: That's where we'll kill her! Crush her at the height of her glory! Bartok: And we're back to the crushing. Sir, I'm begging you. Please! Please, forget the girl and get a life! Rasputin: Oh, I'll get a life, Bartok. HERS! |
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| ~ Rasputin still desiring to kill Anastasia despite Bartok’s objections. |
| “ | Anastasia: Rasputin? Rasputin: Rasputin? Hahah! Destroyed by your despicable family! But what goes around comes around, and around, and around, and around! |
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| ~ Rasputin using his reliquary to attack Anastasia and ruin her dress. |
| “ | I can fix that! Care for a little swim under the ICE?! Say your prayers, Anastasia! No one can save you! | „ |
| ~ Rasputin intending to send Anastasia to drown in the Seine river. |
| “ | How enchanting! Together again.... for the last time! You'll get a kick out of THIS!! | „ |
| ~ Rasputin preventing Dimitri from rescuing Anastasia by bringing a giant pegasus statue to life. |
| “ | Finally, the last Romanov death! | „ |
| ~ Rasputin about to send Anastasia to drown in the Seine river. |
| “ | LONG LIVE THE ROMANOVS!! | „ |
| ~ Rasputin after supposedly making Anastasia fall to her doom. |
Trivia[]
- The real-life Rasputin (while very unpopular with the Russian people) was actually very close with the family of Tsar Nicholas, particularly the Tsarina and her daughters. Contrary to his reputation, he was not an evil sorcerer, and instead, he was an eccentric monk, mystic and healer. Neither was Rasputin the cause of the Romanov family's death. He had been killed more than a year and a half before the Bolsheviks overthrew the government and executed the Romanovs.
- It was because of Rasputin that Anastasia almost received a PG rating from the MPAA.
- Rasputin in Anastasia is one of several fictionalized versions of Rasputin being portrayed as an antagonist.
- If he was forty-seven at 1916, he would have been fifty-seven at the time of his defeat ten years later.
- This version of Rasputin draws a bit of inspiration from the Russian folkloric figure Koschei.
External Links[]
- Rasputin on the Pure Evil Wiki
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