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Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

60: The Real Rasputin w/ Douglas Smith - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, Education, History

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

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/ Become a Most Notorious patron: https://www.patreon.com/mostnotorious Most Notorious website: https://www.mostnotorious.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃ

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ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃ'ən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃ ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃ ən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃ

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One he's here to talk with me about.

1:01.4

Today is called Resputen, Faith, Power,

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and the Twilight of the Romanos.

1:07.3

It's a spectacular book.

1:09.1

I appreciate your time.

1:10.8

Thank you for joining me.

1:13.4

Thanks for having me.

1:14.3

It's pleasure to be here.

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So people have a lot of preconceived ideas about Resputen.

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A sorcerer, a madman, he's becoming

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an almost mythological figure in world history.

1:24.8

What did you see in Resputen that prompted you

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to write a book about him?

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And how is your book different than some of the others out there?

1:32.4

Yeah, well, that's very true.

1:34.5

The way you describe him, that's definitely

1:36.4

how he sort of lives in the popular imagination.

1:40.0

I really had no long standing intention

1:42.8

of writing about Resputen.

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It grew out of unexpectedly a previous book

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