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.

On Dec. 17, 1916, Grigori Efimovich Rasputin was poisoned, shot, left for dead and then, after crawling toward one of his assassins, shot at again and finally dumped into an icy river in St ...

Poster of the movie Rasputin and the Empress. Credit: Wikimedia Commons First, he went after Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for its film Rasputin and the Empress, released in 1932, starring three members of the ...

Rasputin and the Dowager Empress’s Dream will be published in hardback in the UK by W&N in March 2026. In the book, Beevor "pierces the fog of fantasy" around Rasputin that has only grown denser ...

Rasputin and the Dowager Empress’s Dream will be published in hardback in the UK by W&N in March 2026. In the book, Beevor "pierces the fog of fantasy" around Rasputin that has only grown denser ...

The line was popularised in the 1930s after Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for its film Rasputin and the Empress. The princess believed that the character “Princess ...