Editing Colossus (character) (section)

===Background===
[[File:Piotr Saving Sister.jpg|thumb|250px|Colossus' first appearance from ''[[Giant-Size X-Men]]'' #1 (May 1975); art by [[Dave Cockrum]]]]
Piotr "Peter" Rasputin was born on a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Collective farming|collective farm]] called the [[Ust-Ordynsky]] Collective near [[Lake Baikal]] in [[Siberia]]. He lived there with his mother Alexandra, father Nikolai, and sister [[Magik (Illyana Rasputin)|Illyana]]. His older brother [[Mikhail Rasputin|Mikhail]] had been a Soviet [[Astronaut|cosmonaut]] and had apparently died in a rocket accident. The 2006 comic mini-series ''Colossus: Bloodline'' established that the family was descended from [[Grigori Rasputin]] and a [[Romani people|Romani]] woman named Elena.<ref>''X-Men: Colossus Bloodline'' #1 (November, 2005). Marvel Comics.</ref>

Peter's superhuman powers manifested during his adolescence while saving his sister from a runaway tractor. He was then contacted by [[Professor X|Professor Charles Xavier]], founder of the X-Men.<ref name="debut"/>