Czar Nicholas and his wife Alexandra called upon Rasputin to heal their son Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia, a disorder where blood is unable to properly clot. Rasputin was supposedly able to ...

This pseudo-cleric averred that he could control the child’s illness. In fact, he did seem to have some marginal soothing effect on Alexei’s agonies. In a twinkling, Rasputin became a constant denizen ...

Rasputin came to the attention of the royal family. In April 1907, Alexandra called on him to heal her only son, the Tsarevich Alexei. He was suffering from painful bleeding as a result of an injury.

It is an inside look into the private lives of Nicholas and his wife Alexandra (Janet Suzman ... the Imperial Couple to the mystical Grigori Rasputin (Tom Baker), and the eventual execution ...

Yusupov and several other Russian aristocrats were not happy about the influence that Rasputin seemed to have over the Czar, ...