Khioniya Guseva
Russian assassin
Khioniya Kuzminichna Guseva (c. 1880/81 – after 1919; her first name has alternatively been spelled as Khionia or Jina or Chionya, and her surname has been alternatively spelled as Gusyeva) was a Russian townswoman (meshchanka) of Syzran (near Simbirsk) who attempted to kill Grigori Rasputin in 1914.
Biography
In 1899, she is recorded as having resided in Tsaritsyn, known presently as Volgograd. Until 1912, she was a devotee of the monk Iliodor.
According to the records of the Extraordinary Investigative Commission of the Provisional Government (ru), Khioniya Guseva was a peasant of Syzransky Uyezd of the Simbirsk Governorate. The dates of Guseva's birth and death are unknown, but the police report indicates that she was 33 years old when she tried to assassinate Rasputin.
Her most noticeable feature was her lack of a nose. During her testimony, she indicated that she never suffered from syphilis, but rather was "damaged by medicines" since she was 13 years old.
Assassination attempt on Rasputin
Around 21 June she arrived in the village of Pokrovskoye and on 29 June (or 17 June [O.S. 4 June] 1914) she attempted to assassinate Grigori Rasputin. (According to historian Oleg Platonov, the assassination attempt was made on Sunday, June 29 [O.S].)
Grigori Rasputin, a friend of the Tsar Nicholos II and his family, was visiting his wife and children in Siberia. In the afternoon of Monday, around 3 o'clock, he went out from the house.
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