At the beginning of the 20th century, Tsar Nicholas II was visited by a strange figure, the prophet Rasputin. The man ...

The Russian Revolution happened over 100 years ago, at the tail end of World War I. After centuries of being ruled by a ...

In October 1916 Yusupov inveigled his friend (and Tsar Nicholas’s ... over a few months after Rasputin’s death. After the revolution of 1917, Nicholas II abdicated, ending three centuries ...

The five children of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in a 1910 photo ... they fell for him completely. Grigory Rasputin, born in western Siberia, was a self-proclaimed holy man. He had a mixed ...

the Tsar and his wife simply transferred their mystical allegiances to Rasputin's acolytes--including a mentally unstable occultist named Alexander Protopopov, whom Nicholas propped up as Interior ...

Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were executed in ... his uxorious dependence on Alexandra gave outsized influence to the mystical monk Rasputin, whom she adored because, after conventional ...

“The Last Tsar” is filled with revelations and fresh insights. Nicholas II was, as Mr. Hasegawa puts ... She was notoriously advised by Grigori Rasputin, the peasant faith healer first invited ...

They soon found Rasputin crawling into the snow-covered courtyard ... do we want someone senile or stupid in office? The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs, by ...

In his newly released book, “The Last Tsar: the Abdication of Nicholas II and the End of the Romanovs” (Basic ... his spiteful wife and the family’s faith healer, Rasputin, as it untangles the ...