The death of the ‘notoriously evil’ monk was reported in the Manchester Guardian on 3 January 1917, while the following day, amidst all the news about the war in Europe, it was noted that Russia could ...

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 ...

From botched reforms and disastrous wars to Rasputin’s influence and growing social unrest, this episode reveals how Nicholas ...

This book gets rid of the many myths about Rasputin. Secondarily it explains Rasputin’s small but important role in the Russian Revolution. Douglas Smith retells each myth, not revealing at first that ...

In the volumes of Russian history there are a great many famous names. In the arts we read of Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky, on the battlefield there was Peter the Great and Zhukov and in the sciences, ...