Feared by the Russian elite and shrouded in myth Grigori Rasputin rose from obscurity to become one of the most powerful and controversial figures in the last days of the empire His life and death blu ...

Grigori Rasputin, often called the "Mad Monk," was a mystic and advisor to Russia’s last imperial family, the Romanovs.

As the story goes, Grigori Rasputin’s assassins poisoned the “Mad Monk,” shot him at close range, beat him and threw him into ...