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what was Grigori Rasputin's religious conversion?
In 1897, Grigori Rasputin developed a renewed interest in religion and left Pokrovskoye to go on a pilgrimage.
where did Grigori Rasputin pilgrimage?
Grigori Rasputin had undertaken earlier pilgrimages to the Holy Znamensky Monastery at Abalak and to Tobolsk's cathedral, but his 1897 visit to the St. Nicholas Monastery at Verkhoturye was transformative.

Question: did he go with anyone?
Self-contained rewrite: did Grigori Rasputin go with anyone on his pilgrimage to the St. Nicholas Monastery at Verkhoturye ?