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 ...

In a country full of Cossacks and bear hunters, the most critical assassination in Russian history fell to Prince Felix Yusupov — a slight, hash-smoking rich kid You can save this article by ...

On the morning of December 29, 1916, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was startled by a phone call that turned out to be yet another death threat. His daughter, Maria, later remembered that it put him in a ...

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 ...

POKROVSKOYE, Russia -- "Rasputin? Sure, just a few doors down. He's in the house with the smoking chimney." It had been the shakiest of leads, but the women in the little grocery store in Pokrovskoye ...

While the Empress's letters wipe clean away all the scandalous charges made against her personal character, while they show that up to Rasputin's death she was a fervent Russian patriot who had no ...

Some saw him as a charlatan, others a “saint”, who foretold the fall of the Russian Empire shortly before his own death. His descendants had had to live in the shadow of the ‘tsarist monk’ for years ...

If Teffi hadn’t existed, no one could have invented her. Read and admired by Nicholas II and Lenin, scornful of the Whites and the Bolsheviks, pursued in vain by Rasputin, constitutionally incapable ...

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 Romanov family in the movie – showed up in your nightmares. Or maybe you ...