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 ...

Narrative history is Antony Beevor’s great strength. Stalingrad, a landmark study of the Second World War’s bloodiest battle, ...

Grigori Rasputin, often called the "Mad Monk," was a mystic and advisor to Russia’s last imperial family, the Romanovs. Rising from obscurity, he gained influence through claims of healing the ...

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 ...

What emerges is not only the story of one extraordinary individual, but also a deeply felt portrait of a ruling dynasty so frightened, isolated and dysfunctional that it placed its faith in a ...

That hypnotic stare haunts historical photographs. Rasputin's unlikely path led straight through the heart of Russian history and somehow landed in nightclubs worldwide. His strange legacy connects ...