Grigori Rasputin was a mystic who was originally only a peasant, so how did he become entangled with the Emperor of Russia, ...

In her desperation for help from any quarter, she fell victim to the wiles of the Russian mystic and faith healer Rasputin. This pseudo-cleric averred that he could control the child’s illness.

(JTA) — Grigory Kanovich, a Lithuanian-born Jew and award winning author who endeavored to tell the story of his people despite Soviet pressure, died on Friday at 93 in his home in Tel Aviv.

I wish they’d held off on this even for one more arc, because the relationship between these two was the single best part of “Rasputin: The Voice of the Dragon,” and I would’ve liked to see it develop ...