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Piotr
"Peter" Rasputin was born on a Soviet collective farm called the
Ust-Ordynski Collective near Lake Baikal in Siberia. He lived there with his
mother Alexandra, father Nikolai, and sister, Illyana. His older brother,
Mikhail, had been a Russian cosmonaut and had apparently died in a rocket
accident (the 2006 comic mini-series Colossus: Bloodline established that
the family was descended from a real-life historical figure Grigori Rasputin).
Peter's superhuman
powers manifested during his adolescence while saving his sister from a runaway
tractor. At first, Peter was content simply to use these powers to aid the other
people of the collective; however he was soon contacted by Professor Charles
Xavier, the founder of the X-Men. Xavier was recruiting a new team of X-Men to
rescue the original team, most of whom had been captured by the sentient mutant
island Krakoa.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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