92. Killing Rasputin

Empire: World History

Goalhanger

History

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Born in Siberia to a peasant family, Rasputin was an incredibly charismatic, physically striking, and politically savvy figure. He was a holy man, a mystic, who found his way to the centre of Imperial Russian power. Once he met Nicholas and Alexandra, he gained a central place in the court as the only man who could stop the tsarevich, Alexei, from bleeding. As his influence grew, his reputation among the Russian aristocracy declined. In the end, they felt they had to act. And so, on the night of the 29th December, 1916, he was lured to the Yusopov basement... Listen as William and Anita are joined by Simon Sebag Montefiore to discuss Alexandra, Nicholas, and the life and death of their favourite adviser, Rasputin. Twitter: @Empirepoduk Email: empirepoduk@gmail.com Goalhangerpodcasts.com Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Jack Davenport + Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.1	W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me, Empire with me Anita Arnan and me William
0:34.7	Durump. Now before we introduce our very special guest today and you know
0:39.1	him you know him he has been before. I mean he's fast becoming a firm favorite of this
0:46.4	podcast. I should really explain what we're doing because you will have had the
0:50.6	excellent Anthony Beaver talking about the Russian Revolution in the last couple of podcasts.
0:56.0	And we did it, didn't we, William, in sort of macro political terms, the really big chunky issues of the day.
1:03.2	Adity Beaver likes a good battle.
1:05.2	He likes a chunky.
1:06.2	We have plenty of those.
1:07.2	Does.
1:08.2	Yes.
1:09.2	And he does it and he does it exceptionally well.
1:11.0	No one does a battle better than beaver has been said.
1:14.0	Try and say that after a few drinks.
1:16.0	That's very good.
1:18.0	Oh, okay.
1:19.0	Well, look, the thing is there is a flesh and blood, pretty tragic, painful, deeply personal story in the middle of all of this.
1:27.0	It's the story of a family that gets wiped out.
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