yeah, he wasn't a monk either. at best he was a mystic.
He had a family before his carreer started. In English literature he is often called a monk, but that is a little mistranslation. The Russian term ,,starets" is for wise, elder monks, but also for wandering holy men travelling across the land (common in the pre-1917 Russia), Rasputin was the latter. Staretses typically did not have a family, that is true.