Rasputin
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The legend of Rasputin's death goes that he survived poisoning, being shot in the head before being thrown through a hole in the ice in the Neva River, where he finally died by drowning. But Rasputin biographer Douglas Smith, Dan's guest today, says that isn't what happened. He's been to Russia to study the crime scene photos and the evidence and says things happened a little differently to the way the history is told...
He joins Dan to dig into the life of Grigori Rasputin, the Siberian mystique whose charisma held the Romanov Tsar and Tsarina in a vice-like grip, securing his own influence over Russia's politics and church at the turn of the 20th century.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you |
| 0:08.3 | slide by on track to your |
| 0:15.0 | there, |
| 0:20.0 | to care in the world as you simply lean back. |
| 0:17.0 | And before you know it, you're there. |
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| 0:47.8 | Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History at Gregori Ras Putin one of the most |
| 0:56.9 | fascinating the most bizarre and extraordinary characters in modern European |
| 1:01.4 | history the peasant who became a mystic, the mystic who became an essential, indispensable advisor to the Tsar of all Russia. |
| 1:11.0 | The man who almost changed the course of world history, the fate of |
| 1:15.9 | Russia and the outbreak of the First World War before his grisly assassination in |
| 1:21.1 | 1916. |
| 1:23.0 | Who was Resputin? |
| 1:25.0 | Did he have magical powers that stop the bleeding of the young Russian prince? |
| 1:28.9 | Was he the lover of the Russian Queen? |
| 1:31.2 | All your questions will be answered here by the very brilliant Douglas Smith. |
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