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and it was shaped by his Orthodox religion.
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His wife, about whom I'll have more to say,
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was a convert to Russian Orthodoxy.
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Like many converts from one religion to another,
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was absolutely fanatic in her attachment.
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He was more relaxed about religion than his wife was,
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but he often spoke about this sort of religious ecstasy
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that he felt when he went to church.
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Historians now say, "It's too easy to shape discourse
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about the Russian Revolution around the influence of Rasputin."
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But in fact,
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Rasputin in 1914 had warned