The Assassination of Russia’s “Mad Monk”

Episode 1281,   Dec 30, 2025, 08:00 AM

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December 30, 1916. Grigori Rasputin, the mystic confidant of the Russian royals, is assassinated in St. Petersburg, accelerating the fall of the Romanov dynasty.

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