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 ...
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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, ...
On the morning of December 29, 1916, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was startled by a phone call that turned out to be yet another death threat. His daughter, Maria, later remembered that it put him in a ...
Grigori Rasputin, often called the "Mad Monk," was a mystic and advisor to Russia’s last imperial family, the Romanovs. Rising from obscurity, he gained influence through claims of healing the ...