He drank poisoned wine. He ate cyanide-laced cakes. He was shot three times. And yet the autopsy report tells a story nobody expected.
Grigori Rasputin rose from an illiterate Siberian peasant to become the most trusted — and most feared — man in the Russian royal court. He healed a dying prince, seduced an empire's aristocracy, and warned the Tsar of a war that would destroy his entire dynasty. He was right.
In this video, we uncover the true story behind the myth: how a wandering "holy man" gained access to the Romanov family, the scandal that nearly got him killed years before his assassination, and the real reason his daughter says the poisoning legend never happened.
The fall of Rasputin wasn't just his own — it was the beginning of the end for the last Tsar of Russia.