Rasputin (Don Bluth)

Undead traits granted via selling his soul to darkness (or even The Devil himself)
Reliquary
High intelligence
Intimidation
Singing

### Hobby

Performing magic and sorcery.
Abusing Bartok.

### Goals

Take control of all of Russia.Kill the last of the Romanov family to have revenge on them for banishment as a fraud.
Murder Anastasia.
Complete his curse (all failed).

### Moral Event Horizon

Cursing the entire Romanov family.
Sabotaging a train that Anastasia was on, resulting in dozens to hundreds of deaths and severe injuries of others.
Invading Anastasia's dreams and attempting to make her commit suicide.

### Crimes

Malefic
Mass murder (including child murder)
Regicide
Treason
Abuse
Assault
Terrorism
Brainwashing
Conspiracy
Attempted takeover
Mass destruction
Stalking
Vandalism
Attempted suicide inducement
Invasion
Public endangerment
Mass corruption
Fearmongering
Kidnapping
Sabotage
Usurpation
Animal cruelty

### Type of Villain

Vengeful Lich

**Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin** (Russian: **Григорий Ефимович Распутин**), better known by his surname **Rasputin**, is the main antagonist of the Don Bluth's 9th animated movie *Anastasia*.

He is loosely based on the real-life Russian man of the same name. However, in the film, he is depicted as a far more malevolent and heinous being of black magic than the real-life Rasputin. He is Anastasia and Dimitri's arch-nemesis and Bartok's former master.

He was voiced by Christopher Lloyd. His singing voice was provided by Jim Cummings.

## Personality

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 fulfil 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.

## 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; it follows that on numerous occasions Rasputin loses one or more pieces of his body, though can still put himself back together.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

* Instead of just getting revenge on the Tsar, the one who banished him, he takes it to the extreme and curses his entire family, causing the Russian Revolution and getting most of them killed.
* He attempts to murder Anastasia (who at the time was only a child) on the frozen surface of the Neva River as she is escaping by jumping her and trying to drag her into the icy waters with him, but is unsuccessful.
* He abuses his minion Bartok constantly.
* He becomes obsessed with the idea of completing his revenge, planning to kill Anastasia at all costs.
* He sabotages the train that Anastasia is on and only Anya, Pooka, Vladimir, and Dimitri survive when it crashes.
* He invades Anastasia's dreams and nearly makes her commit suicide.
* Even after Anya is reunited with her grandmother, Empress Marie, at long last, he still wants to go full throttle with his plan to kill her, despite what Bartok (who can almost be said to have somehow taken a liking to Anya, and is even looking forward to attending her return celebration in Paris) says. By this point and time, it’s clear that the two are not really on the same page with one another, and Bartok gives up on his master (without doing anything to try to protect Anya) when the latter begins his final confrontation with the Grand Duchess.
* He takes advantage of Anya’s dog, Pooka, to lead Anya into a garden maze and lures Anya out onto the Pont Alexandre III with his eerie voice.
* Now face to face with Anya for the first time since her childhood, and once she remembers him, he destroys parts of her dress.
* Believing that he now has her right where he wants her, he destroys a large chunk of the bridge Anya is standing on, which will send her plummeting into the icy Seine River below. As he shouts that no one can save her, if one looks closely, he raises up his reliquary, and it’s seen through this that he is about to deliver the final blow and send her to her final resting place, and he would have if Dimitri (who originally planned to return to Russia, but rethought his decision and decided to go back to her after smelling a rose Anya gave him) hadn’t returned to come to her rescue.
* During the climax, he enchants a nearby Pegasus statue to hold off Dimitri while he still attempts to kill Anya.
* While his body parts falling off provides some comedy to the audience, in-universe, he is still treated as a very horrifying threat.