During early Mardi Gras celebrations hundreds of years ago, masks were a way for their wearers to escape class constraints and social demands. Mask wearers could mingle with people of all different classes and could be whomever they desired, at least for a few days.
Rasputin (song) - Composition.  1 Rasputin references the hope held by Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna that Grigori Rasputin would heal her hemophiliac son, Tsarevich Alexei of Russia. It also claims that Rasputin was Alexandra's paramour: Ra Ra Rasputin: lover of the Russian queen â there was a cat that really was gone.
1 Like the equally evil Jack the Ripper, Mad Monk Rasputin has a bit role in the anime Soul Eater. 2  In a dream sequence, no less! 3  Master Of Mosquiton has him as an arguably Necessarily Evil mastermind trying to prevent the return to Earth of evil Star-Gods.