The Last Tsar's Court: Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs

In 1916, as World War I bled Russia dry, Tsar Nicholas II retreated to military headquarters at Mogilev, leaving the government in the hands of his wife Alexandra and the mysterious Siberian mystic Grigory Rasputin. This episode explores how Rasputin's influence at court—his ability to stop the Tsarevich's hemophilia bleeding, his manipulation of ministerial appointments, and his scandalous behavior—eroded the monarchy's remaining legitimacy. We follow Rasputin's rise from a peasant in Pokrovskoye to the inner sanctum of the Romanovs, through the conspiracy that ended with his murder in the Yusupov Palace on December 17, 1916. Along the way, we examine the mystical Orthodox sect known as the Khlysty, the role of the Tsarina's German heritage, and the dark prophecy Rasputin left behind. This is the story of how one man's influence became a symbol of everything wrong with imperial Russia—and why the revolution that followed was almost inevitable.

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