Born in 1869 in the remote village of Pokrovskoye, Siberia, Grigori Efimovich wasn’t born a mystic. In fact, his early life was unremarkably scandalous: he drank, womanized, and was rumored to be a horse thief. But around age 30, he experienced a religious conversion after a supposed vision of the Virgin Mary.
Born in 1869 in the remote village of Pokrovskoye, Siberia, Grigori Efimovich wasn’t born a mystic. In fact, his early life was unremarkably scandalous: he drank, womanized, and was rumored to be a horse thief. But around age 30, he experienced a religious conversion after a supposed vision of the Virgin Mary.