As Rasputin’s influence grew, so did public outrage. Few understood the real reason the Romanovs protected him: his apparent ability to ease the suffering of the heir, Alexei. Instead, rumors of ...

Discover the bizarre and legendary accounts surrounding the death of Grigori Rasputin, a man whose survival instincts seemed ...

A Tsar whose officer corps were so demoralised by rumour — of debauchery, of a peasant controlling the Empress, of treason in ...