To this day, the death of Grigori Rasputin remains one of the most widely mythologized stories in modern history. On the night of December 29, 1916, a group of nobles who feared the powerful holy ...

Alan Rickman turned in his best performance in 1996 with the title role in 'Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny.' ...

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, the Russian mystic and faith healer, has been the subject of much fascination and speculation. His life and death have become the stuff of legend, with many regarding ...

LONDON -- For the third time in two years the death of Monk Gregory Rasputin was reported today. Special dispatches from Petrograd asserted today that the monk, who is supposed to wield such ...

In 1916, Rasputin had already predicted his death in a letter he left behind before January 1. He also foretold that if the people killed him, there would be no issue, but if he were killed by the ...

in degrees of humiliation or even death, as their determination to influence statecraft met resistance or ridicule from those supporting conventional politics. Take, for example, Grigory Rasputin ...

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, the Russian mystic and faith healer, has been the subject of much fascination and speculation. His life and death have become ...

Police have arrested a suspect in the unsolved murder of a Honolulu teenager, whose death rocked the high school where her body was discovered almost five decades ago. They said the man arrested ...

This article appears in the February 2025 print edition with the headline “The New Rasputins.” ...

A drunken fist-fight, childhood tragedy and an all-star producer all helped Mastodon channel their melodic tendencies on ...