In Antony Beevor’s new biography, the ‘mad monk’ emerges as a pungent, foolish quack who helped to speed Tsarist Russia to its grave ...

Rasputin rose from an illiterate Russian peasant to one of the most powerful men in the Romanov Empire, and he did it by means that still stump historians today. Loved by an ardent, powerful few and ...

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 ...

The mystic peasant Rasputin was a trusted adviser of the Russian royal family but made deadly enemies. His violent 1916 assassination is the stuff of legend, leaving historians to piece together what ...