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Encyclopedia > Chionya Gusyeva

Khioniya Kozmishna Guseva (her first name has alternatively been spelt as Khionia or Jina or Chionya and her surname has been alternatively spelt as Gusyeva) was a former prostitute and a disciple of the monk Iliodor during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... A disciple (from the Latin discipulus, a pupil) is one who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher, and implies that the pupil is under the discipline of, and understands, his teacher... Tsar Nicholas II (18 May 1868 to 17 July 1918)1 was the last crowned Emperor of Russia. ...


She was said to be horribly disfigured and was lacking a nose.


On June 29th 1914, Grigori Rasputin, adviser to the Russian Royal Family, was visiting his wife and children in his hometown, Pokrovskoye, along the Tura River, in Siberia. He had either just received a telegram, or was just exiting church, when he was attacked by Guseva who drove a knife into his abdomen. Supposedly his entrails hung out of what seemed like a mortal wound. Guseva purportedly screamed "I have killed the antichrist!" after the attack. June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Grigori Rasputin Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Russian: ) (22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1869 – 29 December [O.S. 16 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic with an influence in the later days of Russias Romanov dynasty. ... The House of Romanov (Рома́нов, pronounced Ro-MAH-nof), the second and last royal dynasty of Russia, which ruled Muscovy and the Russian Empire for five generations from 1613 to 1762. ... Tura (Тура́), river in Russia, left tributary of Tobol. ... Siberia is also an album by Echo & The Bunnymen. ... In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist has come to mean a person, image of a person, or other entity that is the embodiment of evil and utterly opposed to truth, while convincingly disguised as wholly good and a bringer of truth. ...


It was believed that Guseva had been sent by the monk Iliodor to kill Rasputin as he despised him and his Khlysty inspired beliefs. Khlysts or Khlysty (Хлысты in Russian), a distorted name, which comes from the word хлыст (khlyst), meaning a whip; the original name was a made-up word Христы (Khristy), or Christians), an underground sect in the late 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th century that split off from the Russian...


After 10 days Rasputin recovered. It was said about his survival; "the soul of this cursed muzhik was sewn on his body." Muzhik is an untranslatable Russian word; at base an informal reference to a man, similar to dude or chap. ...


The dates of Khioniya Guseva's birth and death are unknown.


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