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Mystic, healer, sinner, saint—Grigori Rasputin has been called many things. But who was the Mad Monk of Russia, really? From his rise in the royal court to his mysterious influence over the Romanovs, this episode explores how one man became a symbol of everything wrong in a crumbling empire—and how myth and reality collided in the final days of Tsarist Russia.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 – Intro to Grigori Rasputin
01:16 – Chapter 1: The Mad Monk
09:33 – Chapter 2: Royal Blood
18:30 – Chapter 3: The Dark One
27:38 – Chapter 4: An Infamous Murder
38:10 – Too Dang Funky!
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Artist: Scott DeWitt & Nick DeWitt | Writer: Robert Rath | Showrunner & Narrator: Matthew Krol | Video Editor: Devon House Creative | Audio Editor: Clean Waves | Studio Director: Geoffrey Zatkin | Social Media: Kat Rider | ♪ “Mad Monk” by Tiffany Roman
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Jesus Christ this whole video is full of “ayo?”’s.
I see you Dionysus XXX bottle. Someones been playing Hades.
16:52 This literally says in russian "Extra Extra Credit"
Rasputin just gave the royal family hope.. and this was the ‘magic’ people were eager to figure out
Hey, I would love if you could do a video about the history of the Soviet Union. For a country that didn’t make it to 70 years, it sure had a lot of rich history.
If only Nicholas fired Rasputin when it was best… Maybe it would of stopped the Cold war and the vietnam war
Ah the juice folk of course
I thought he was Russia's greatest love machine. Did Bony M lie to me?
The sheer number of failed attempts to assassinate Rasputin is legendary. It makes you wonder: was the entire sensationalized death story a deliberate political narrative to justify the murder and hide the real motive behind it?
O gosh! The pictures of killing of Rusputin… the bridge and Usupov's palace are so not like in real life in Saint Petersburg… like at all… shows the author did not even google the locations.