Grigori Rasputin
Two separate Church investigations, in 1903 and 1912, examined whether he belonged to a banned mystical sect and both closed without finding him one. Almost every occult claim now attached to his name — prophetic powers, near-magical resilience — is first documented only after his death, not during his life.
The 1903 and 1912 Tobolsk consistory investigations into Rasputin
A Russian peasant mystic whose influence at the imperial court and violent death in 1916 made him a subject of enduring occult legend.