Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you watch the 1997 classic “Anastasia” as a kid? We’re willing to bet the villain Rasputin – who sells his soul to kill the ...

Grigory Rasputin has long occupied a peculiar corner of the historical imagination. In popular culture he appears as a kind of pantomime villain: a hypnotic monk with burning eyes, drunkenly ...

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 ...

Who is Rasputin? Find out how much of the story of the Mad Monk is myth and how much is history. The myth of Rasputin, the Mad Monk, is well-known: He was a scheming sexual predator who insinuated ...

In “Rasputin,” the biographer Antony Beevor delves into the mysterious life of the last czarina’s mystic adviser. By Sophie Pinkham Sophie Pinkham is the author of “The Oak and the Larch: A Forest ...

Rasputin’s pale face, long hair and penetrating eyes gave him an almost hypnotic quality (Public Domain) What emerges is not only the story of one extraordinary individual, but also a deeply felt ...