Grigori Rasputin was a mystic and renegade monk who entranced the Romanovs — and ended up being assassinated in December 1916 for it.
All That's Interesting | 13.05.2026 08:00
For almost the entirety of Russia’s 370 years of tsarist rule, the country was sparsely populated and yielded virtually no industrial output. Serfdom was only abolished in 1861. And near the end of the empire, revolutionary ferment could be felt in the streets all over the country. Enter Grigori Rasputin, who was born into this turbulent world in 1869.
