History tells us the monk Rasputin appeared in St. Petersburg in 1905 and appeared to be able to alleviate Alexei’s suffering. The family knew him as “our friend.” However, those in royal circles and ...

History tells us the monk Rasputin appeared in St. Petersburg in 1905 and appeared to be able to alleviate Alexei’s suffering. The family knew him as “our friend.” ...

So Rasputin came to personify the vast peasantry, the enormous body of the country. If he respected them, if he loved them, if he served them, then clearly, so too must all Russians.

Did you watch the 1997 classic “Anastasia” as a kid? We’re willing to bet the villain Rasputin – who sells his soul to kill the Romanov family in the movie – showed up in your nightmares. Or maybe you ...

In structure and style, “The Death of Rasputin” doesn’t diverge too much from recent immersive offerings. There are drawers to poke through, letters to read, eldritch items to caress, a ...

He was a mystic, supposedly possessed of incredible powers of seduction and persuasion within the Tsarist court of Russia's Romanov monarchy. Gregory Rasputin was the eccentric monk who emerged ...