REVIEW: Was he a demonic master manipulator who seduced half the Russian aristocracy or a misunderstood mystic? Guy Walters picks up Antony Beevor’s new biography and discovers a powerful new reading ...

Here, we take a look at five myths and truths about the legendary Siberian holy man: Born to peasants in a small village in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Douglas Smith, the author of a substantial, meticulously researched and fluently written new life of Rasputin, calls it “possibly the most recognised name in Russian history”. Everyone knows the story ...

Grigory Rasputin was a Siberian peasant turned holy man with incredible charisma, bad teeth, questionable hygiene (he claimed that he once went six months without changing his underwear), and a strong ...

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 261st installment in the series. One of the most hated men in Russia, the malign holy man Rasputin met a ...

Some saw him as a charlatan, others a “saint”, who foretold the fall of the Russian Empire shortly before his own death. His descendants had had to live in the shadow of the ‘tsarist monk’ for years ...

Grandma, it’s me—your newest immersive theater obsession, The Death of Rasputin. If you’re an immersive theater nerd, an occult/witchy nerd, a history nerd, or just a lover of a cool story told in a ...