Rasputin
2/2/202657 min
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, Russia was a nation on the brink. Strikes, protests, and brutal uprisings were shaking the empire. Public faith in the monarchy was hanging by a thread. It was into this fragile world that Grigori Rasputin stepped. Whether he was truly a holy man, blessed...
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In a corridor of the imperial family’s summer dacha, a young footman stands guard at the door to the nursery. Inside, the life of the three-year-old heir to the Russian throne, Tsarevich Alexei, hangs in the balance. He is suffering from an internal hemorrhage brought on by his hemophilia, a rare genetic disorder that stops the blood from clotting properly, meaning even small injuries can be life-threatening. Listening at his post, the footman hears anxious, clipped voices from within. None of the doctors have known what to do, and the child is in a desperate state. His mother, Tsarina Alexandra, fears the worst.