According to the records of the Extraordinary Investigative Commission of the Provisional Government (ru), Khioniya Guseva was a peasant of Syzransky Uyezd of the Simbirsk Governorate.

The dates of Guseva's birth and death are unknown, but the police report indicates that she was 33 years old when she tried to assassinate Rasputin.

[4][5] In 1914 she attempted to assassinate Grigori Rasputin in his home village of Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk Governorate, where she may have arrived on 16 June of that year.

[2] Grigori Rasputin, a friend of the czar Nicholas II of Russia and his family, was visiting his wife and children in his village, along the Tura River, in Siberia.

He had just received a telegram, and left his home to reply to it when he was attacked by Guseva, who drove a knife into his abdomen.