How Rasputin Destroyed the 300-Year-Old Romanov Dynasty | Dan Snow's History Hit
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Pornographic cartoons on the frozen streets of Petrograd. Whispers of a German-born empress cuckolding the Tsar.
In the middle of the First World War, the 300-year-old Romanov dynasty was unravelling from the inside out. And at the centre of it all was the shadowy figure of Grigori Rasputin - the court's ultimate pariah, and the people’s chief villain.
Dan Snow is joined by renowned historian Sir Antony Beevor to expose the lethal cocktail of corruption and hubris that brought down the Romanov dynasty.
Anthony is the author of ‘Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs'.
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