The mysterious mystic, Grigori Rasputin, was beloved by the Russian royal family
but largely hated by everyone else.
However, Grigori Perelman told The New Yorker that his father
gave him Physics for Entertainment, and it inspired his interest in mathematics.
The Tsar of the land of Russia,
if you hear the sound of the bell which will tell you that Grigori has been killed,
you must know this, if it was your relations who have wrought my death, then no one in the family, that is to say, none of your children or your relations, will remain alive for more than two years.