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RASPUTIN: DARK SERVANT OF DESTINY (1996)

Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny is a historical film about the last four years of Grigori Rasputin’s life from 1912 to 1916 and is narrated by the character Alexei.

            It stars Alan Rickman (Grigori Rasputin), Greta Scacchi (Tsarina Alexandra), Ian McKellen (Tsar Nicholas II), and Freddie Finlay (Tsarevich Alexei).

            Rasputin was a Russian mystic, holy man and a fraud. He befriended the Russian royal family when Tsar Nicholas II was emperor. He met Nicholas II and Alexandra in 1905, in 1906 the couple trusted him to be the healer for the son Alexandra who suffered from haemophilia. Rasputin of course never healed him and it only appeared at times that Alexandra health was improving. Rasputin was a controversial figure at court, and as the royal family became unpopular, Rasputin was seen as being a bad influence. On 30 December 1916, Rasputin was famously assassinated by Russian nobles. Not long after his death the Russian Revolution took place and the Romanov royal family were assassinated by the communist Bolsheviks who held power.  

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