How Rasputin Destroyed the Romanovs with Anthony Beevor

How did a Siberian mystic catalyse the downfall of the 300-year-old Russian Empire?

In an era defined by brutal industrialisation and the butchery of World War I, Russia's isolated autocracy was collapsing from the inside out. Bound to the royal family by the agonising secret of Tsarevich Alexei’s illness, the mysterious monk Grigori Rasputin became the court's ultimate pariah and the people’s chief villain.

Dan Snow is joined by renowned historian Sir Antony Beevor, author of 'Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs', to investigate Rasputin and the scandalous twilight of the House of Romanov.

Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Matthew Wilson and Dougal Patmore.

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