But, back then, the Rasputin family were peasants, and Maria ultimately changed her name in an attempt to climb Russia's social ladder. During her early childhood, her father was a starets ...

Hardly anyone recognizes the name Felix Yusupov. He was a Russian aristocrat and a member of the imperial family, whose place ...

starring in dance performances in roles including the mystic Grigory Rasputin. In 2019 he posed for AFP with a large tattoo of Putin on his chest which he later supplemented with two Putin faces ...

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There is no truth. There are alternative truths.” 2. He rose from nowhere to become the power behind the throne in Putin’s Russia He invented 'Sovereign Democracy', a system in which the ...

it led inevitably to disaster for the monarchy and for Russia. The imperial family was brought into disrepute as the Tsarina fell under the influence of Grigori Rasputin. Rasputin was a monk from ...