The Forbidden Love Between Lenin and Rasputin

The raw sexual tension and powerful emotional energy that stems from the relationship between Vladimir Lenin and Grigori Rasputin traverses time and space. An interesting power dynamic becomes the central focus of their budding love when Lenin hypnotizes Rasputin and forces him to breakdance in a 1989 mall.

Rasputin and Lenin first met in 1889 as young men in the bar scene in St. Petersburg. Lenin was a intensely serious and studious young Marxist radical who valued discipline and dedication and cared only for the material realities of the world. Rasputin was a bohemian mystic man, wise in the ways of the divine and the occult. All they had in common was their deep passion and in a classic case of "opposites attract," the two were instantly drawn to each other. After months of tension, Rasputin and Lenin began a torrid and all-consuming sexual affair.

The two reluctantly broke off their relationship when Lenin left town to pursue his legal career. They corresponded occasionally, but the men drifted apart. When Rasputin and Lenin reunited later around 1910 at an art gallery opening in Moscow, Rasputin hoped to rekindle the relationship. Lenin rebuffed his advances, as Lenin had become much more serious about his revolutionary policies and believed that Rasputin's position as Tsar Nicholas II's personal assistant was morally repugnant. Rasputin was shattered but out of denial of how much Lenin had meant to him and of his own great weakness, he refused to accept the pain and became consumed by a great anger. Rasputin began to make incredibly self-destructive choices that damaged his reputation and the reputation of the royal family, but slowly his friendship with Nicholas II's kindhearted young daughter Anastasia helped him begin to get his life on track even as he still yearned for Lenin. Lenin, meanwhile, was deeply ashamed that he still had feelings for Rasputin and worried that his emotions would jeopardize his revolutionary aims. The only person Lenin could confide in was Yara the Enchantress, as most everyone in Imperial Russia was very homophobic and both Trotsky and Stalin would become jealous if they knew Lenin was attracted to men but would not date either of them.

In Anastasia: Once Upon A Time, Lenin and Yara hypnotize Rasputin to travel through time and hunt down Anastasia. Yara's magic captivated Rasputin by manipulating his desire for Lenin and putting him under Lenin's thrall. While Lenin only sought to control Rasputin to use his magic and knowledge to the revolution's ends the ability to completely control Rasputin, who Lenin knew as a powerful and willful man, was intoxicating. The feeling of control over his former lover was primal and erotic, which was deeply disturbing for a man who wanted no distractions in his mission and also was conducting business relating to a missing child. Rasputin's mind was addled by the spell, so all he could feel was a great subservience to Lenin and a tantalizing humiliation over the totality of his bondage.

Eventually in 1989, Anastasia breaks the spell by reminding Rasputin what she first had long ago: that Rasputin was his own person who could live independently from his deep need for Lenin. Despite this when Rasputin and Anastasia return to the past, Rasputin decides to return to Lenin to try to begin a healthy relationship where both are open and honest about their feelings.

After the events of the movie sometime in 1920, Lenin and Rasputin eloped to the Bahamas where Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla officiated a wedding ceremony for the two men. The wedding was attended by Yara, Mark Richards, and several Raptors. A few years after the wedding, the happy couple was visited by Mark again to come to the future and join the Secret Space Program, which was in need of Lenin's great leadership ability and Rasputin's magic skill. Though Lenin did not want to abandon the new Soviet Union, he understood the fate of the universe depended on him and he and Rasputin were eager to be able to live their lives openly together instead of keeping their marriage a secret. In 1924, Lenin faked his death and he and Rasputin began the next chapter of their lives together.