A scarring & scathing look at Putin's fearsome regime debuted at Sundance earlier this year & now is in the Oscar running ...

The brutal fight for Pokrovsk points to the Russian leader’s aims and the problem with peace talks.

Russia went to war in 1914 — and it destroyed the monarchy. Soldiers had no rifles, cities had no bread, and Tsar Nicholas II ...

In October 1905, Papus, a French occultist, performed a solemn ritual amid the marble and gold of the Alexander Palace. Emperor Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna, waited in silence as the ...

Just in time for Halloween, self-proclaimed “Baphometal” duo the Burned Over have channeled the spirit of Boney M. on a metallic revamp of the latter’s Seventies-era signature single, “Rasputin.” The ...

Painting, in the Wisconsin State Capitol, of 'The Signing of the American Constitution,' one of four mural paintings by Albert Herter on the west wall of the Supreme Court, Madison, Wisconsin, 1910.

Gregory Efimovich Rasputin was a country man with course manners and an immoderate passion for women and wine, a charismatic personality, a mystic with healing abilities and the scapegoat for the ...

Grigori Rasputin, often called the "Mad Monk," was a mystic and advisor to Russia’s last imperial family, the Romanovs. Rising from obscurity, he gained influence through claims of healing the ...

When Banijay Asia set out to adapt the U.K. reality format “Rise and Fall” for Indian audiences, the company made a deliberate choice to abandon the crowded field of dance competitions and celebrity ...