Or maybe you know Rasputin from the 1978 hit “Rasputin” which called him “lover of the Russian queen.” Whether you’re a history buff and know the facts about Rasputin’s relationship ...

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

Take, for example, Grigory Rasputin, the Russian priest who exerted huge influence over Alexandra, the last Tsarina of Russia, and thence over the Tsar and, in an autocracy, the government of Russia.

In a moment of prophecy, Rasputin had warned that “with the war will come the end of Russia and yourselves.” ...

Excuses were always made for his excessive and antisocial behaviour. To the Russian people, Rasputin symbolised everything that was wrong with imperial government. The court and the royal family ...

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At the end of World War II, Nazi officers Karl Ruprecht Kroenen and Ilsa Haupstein start an experiment to raise the forces of Hell through Russian dark mystic Rasputin on a Scottish island ...