We’re willing to bet the villain Rasputin – who sells his soul to kill the Romanov family in the movie – showed up in your nightmares. Or maybe you know Rasputin from the 1978 hit ...

Grigori Rasputin had a powerful influence over Russia's imperial family, in the years before ... aristocratic officers were scandalised by the Romanovs' association with this disreputable Siberian ...

When other prominent Romanovs pointed to the damage Rasputin was causing the family, Nicholas exiled them from the capital. The tsar refused to recognize that when all power is placed in the hands of ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917. They ascended the throne at the end of one of the most critical periods of Russian history, known as the Time of Troubles (1589 Ü 1613).

The Romanov family rose to imperial power in Russia in the early 1600s ... The book also brings to life the bumbling Nicholas, his spiteful wife and the family’s faith healer, Rasputin, as it ...

Learn about the downfall of the Romanov dynasty and the evolution of Lenin's Ulyanov family, the Bolsheviks, communism, the notorious Rasputin, rumors of cannibalism and acute poverty during the ...