Original Air Date: 3/18/2017
There are many myths surrounding Grigori Rasputin, known in popular history as the “Mad Monk” and the “Holy Devil”. His influence on Tsar Nicholas II and his family in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Russia is well known, but my guest, Douglas Smith, author of “Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs” sheds new light on his life, his motives and where the legends end and the actual man begins.
The author’s website: https://douglassmith.info/
