Editing Grigori Rasputin (section)

==Failed assassination attempt==
On {{OldStyleDate|12 July|1914|29 June}}, a 33-year-old peasant woman named [[Khioniya Guseva]] attempted to assassinate Rasputin by stabbing him in the stomach outside his home in Pokrovskoye.{{sfn|Fuhrmann|1990|pp=106–107}} Rasputin was seriously wounded, and for a time it was not clear if he would survive.{{sfn|Fuhrmann|1990|p=108}} After surgery{{sfn|Smith|2016|p=332}} and some time in a hospital in Tyumen,{{sfn|Smith|2016|pp=360–361}} he recovered.

Guseva was a follower of [[Iliodor]], a former priest who had supported Rasputin before denouncing his sexual escapades and self-aggrandizement in December 1911.{{sfn|Smith|2017}}{{sfn|Fuhrmann|1990|p=82}} A radical conservative and [[antisemitism|anti-semite]], Iliodor had been part of a group of establishment figures who had attempted to drive a wedge between Rasputin and the imperial family in 1911. When this effort failed, Iliodor was banished from Saint Petersburg and was ultimately [[defrocking|defrocked]].{{sfn|Smith|2017}}{{sfn|Fuhrmann|1990|pp=82–84}} Guseva claimed to have acted alone, having read about Rasputin in the newspapers and believing him to be a "false prophet and even an [[Antichrist]]".{{sfn|Radzinsky|2010|p=256}} Both the police and Rasputin, however, believed that Iliodor had instigated the assassination attempt.{{sfn|Smith|2017}} Iliodor fled the country before he could be questioned, and Guseva was found to be not responsible for her actions [[insanity defense|by reason of insanity]].{{sfn|Smith|2017}}