Khioniya Kozmishna Guseva

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Khioniya Kuzminichna Guseva (her first name has alternatively been spelt as Khionia or Jina or Chionya and her surname has been alternatively spelt as Gusyeva; Russian: Хиония Кузьминична Гусева) was a former prostitute and a disciple of the monk, Iliodor, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

She was said to be horribly disfigured and was lacking a nose.

On June 29th 1914, Grigori Rasputin, adviser to the Russian Royal Family, was visiting his wife and children in his hometown, Pokrovskoye, along the Tura River, in Siberia. He had either just received a telegram, or was just exiting church, when he was attacked by Guseva who drove a knife into his abdomen. Supposedly his entrails hung out of what seemed like a mortal wound. Guseva purportedly screamed "I have killed the antichrist!" after the attack.

It was believed that Guseva had been sent by the monk, Iliodor, to kill Rasputin as he despised him and his Khlysty inspired beliefs.

After 10 days Rasputin recovered. It was said about his survival; "the soul of this cursed peasant was sewn on his body."

The dates of Khioniya Guseva's birth and death are unknown.