Weidenfeld & Nicolson (W&N) has acquired a new biography of Rasputin from author Antony Beevor. W&N publishing director Ed Lake acquired UK & Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights to Rasputin and the ...

Photoshot / Vostok-Photo Tsar Nicholas II's spiritual advisor and close friend Rasputin continues to intrigue historians and ordinary readers alike. Douglas Smith has completed a new biography on this ...

Was he a mad monk? A German spy? The empress’s lover? An unkillable puppetmaster? A Q&A with an author who’s shed new light on who Rasputin really was You may know him as Russia’s greatest love ...

Bridget Kendall gets to the truth of one of the most demonised figures in late Tsarist Russia, with expert guests Douglas Smith, Boris Dralyuk and Helen Rappaport. Show more Rasputin’s story is a ...

Who is Rasputin? Find out how much of the story of the Mad Monk is myth and how much is history. The myth of Rasputin, the Mad Monk, is well-known: He was a scheming sexual predator who insinuated ...