Speaker 1: You're listening to the second and final part of Unexplained,
Speaker 1: Season seven, episode fifteen, in his eyes a flaming glow.
Speaker 1: The Russian Empire was built on the notion of absolute autocracy,
Speaker 1: placing unbridled power in the hands of a single supreme
Speaker 1: ruler known as the Czar. Even as the empire was
Speaker 1: forced to gradually adapt over time, that founding principle remained.
Speaker 1: But by the mid to late nineteen hundreds, Tsar Nicholas,
Speaker 1: the second of the Romanov dynasty, whose family had ruled
Speaker 1: since the early sixteen hundreds, had become a supporting player
Speaker 1: in his own kingdom. The name on everyone's lips, the
Speaker 1: one man that nobody could stop talking about was Grigory Rasputin.
Speaker 1: Every single person in Saint Petersburg had an opinion about Rasputin,
Speaker 1: or Father Grigory, as his supporters called him. The enigmatic
Speaker 1: mystic monk arrived in the city seemingly out of thin air,
Speaker 1: and in the space of just a few years had
Speaker 1: become one of the Tsar's most trusted advisers. To some,
Speaker 1: Rasputin was a revered and inspirational figure, a financially impoverished
Speaker 1: farmer who'd used faith to pull himself up from his
Speaker 1: humble beginnings, endured many hard years as a wandering holy man,
Speaker 1: and had now earned his place in the winter Palace
Speaker 1: next to Czar Nicholas the Second. To others, Mutine was
Speaker 1: anything but holy, perhaps even demonic. His disheveled appearance and long,
Speaker 1: greasy hair suggested to some that although Rasputin no longer
Speaker 1: lived in the wilderness, evidently the wilderness still lived in him,
Speaker 1: and that was nothing compared to the apparent filthiness of
Speaker 1: his private life. Rumours abounded of Rasputin's womanizing, his regular
Speaker 1: visits to brothels, and his addiction to sin. Some believed
Speaker 1: he was a high ranking member of the Clerste, a
Speaker 1: clandestine religious sect which split from the Russian Orthodox Church
Speaker 1: during the seventeenth century. The Klerste sought religious enlightenment through
Speaker 1: what they described as ecstatic rituals orgies. According to the rumors,
Speaker 1: Rasputin was said to have adapted the Cleistay's doctrine into
Speaker 1: his own hedonistic belief system, which promoted sinful to baucherous
Speaker 1: behavior as a means of getting closer to God. It
Speaker 1: was said, too, that he'd even extended this practice to
Speaker 1: include the Czar's wife, Alexandra. Ever since Rasputin had seemingly
Speaker 1: miraculously healed the royal couple's only son, Alexey, he'd become
Speaker 1: a palace fixture. Both Nicholas and Alexandra appeared to spend
Speaker 1: more time with Rasputin than with each other, so naturally,
Speaker 1: with all the rumours about his womanizing ways, many drew
Speaker 1: their own conclusion. Regardless of whether any of these rumors
Speaker 1: were true or not, what was undoubtable was Rasputin's unusual
Speaker 1: hold over the royal couple. To some, it was as
Speaker 1: though he'd put a spell on them, Despite his general
Speaker 1: air of unkempt wildness. What made Rasputin so captivating was
Speaker 1: his gaze. His eyes were eerily pale, and his stare
Speaker 1: was penetrating, almost hypnotic. With huge sways of the city's
Speaker 1: population attending seances, having their palms read, or seeking medical
Speaker 1: help from spiritual healers, it wasn't at all hard for
Speaker 1: people to believe that Rasputin was quite literally hypnotizing the
Speaker 1: Czar and Czarina. How else to explain his unprecedented access
Speaker 1: to the couple and his unnervingly quick ascent into their
Speaker 1: inner circle. Rasputin himself did little to dispel these rumors.
Speaker 1: At parts, he would brag about his influence over the
Speaker 1: couple and openly claim that he had the supreme ruler
Speaker 1: under his command. Despite Rasputin's apparent lack of tact when
Speaker 1: he was out on the town, it seemed the Royal
Speaker 1: couple were either oblivious to how all of this looked
Speaker 1: or simply didn't care to addict it to the validation
Speaker 1: he offered them. Ever since the First Russian Revolution in
Speaker 1: nineteen oh five, Nicholas's power had been steadily waning. He'd
Speaker 1: managed to stave off an all out revolt by passing
Speaker 1: the October Manifesto, which granted civil liberties to citizens and
Speaker 1: vastly weakened his autocratic rule. At the time, he'd felt
Speaker 1: he had no other choice, and the decision had haunted
Speaker 1: him ever since. Within only a few years, political unrest
Speaker 1: was made again. By the early nineteen tens, Russia was
Speaker 1: once again overwhelmed by strikes and protests as more and
Speaker 1: more of its citizens began to question the system, but
Speaker 1: Resputin encouraged the Tsar to ignore it. He should have
Speaker 1: confidence in himself and in his authority. He told him.
Speaker 1: He also reminded him that the will of the people
Speaker 1: was inconsequential, he had been chosen by God for this position.
Speaker 1: The Russian Orthodox Church was also emphatic on this point.
Speaker 1: Its doctrine stated that the tsar was appointed by God,
Speaker 1: so any challenge to the czar was in effect an
Speaker 1: insult to the Lord. Nicholas was emboldened by Resputin's unwavering conviction,
Speaker 1: trusting no one else, He began to consult him directly
Speaker 1: on political matters, asking for his guidance on what ministers
Speaker 1: to appoint to his inner circle. Rasputin's rise to power
Speaker 1: seemed as unstoppable as it was inexplicable. Effectively, he seemed
Speaker 1: to be secretly running the country. To everyone outside, Nicholas
Speaker 1: was seen increasingly as a weak and indecisive leader whose
Speaker 1: every move was being orchestrated by a dangerous Charlatan puppet master.
Speaker 1: Something had to be done about it. In June of
Speaker 1: nineteen fourteen, Rasputin traveled back to his home village of
Speaker 1: Boklovskoy to visit his wife and children, where he received
Speaker 1: a hero's welcome. After all, it wasn't common for people
Speaker 1: to ever leave this remote Siberian village, let alone make
Speaker 1: it all the way into the royal court. Meanwhile, hundreds
Speaker 1: of miles away, one young farmer wasn't so pleased. Thirty
Speaker 1: three year old Keyonya Guseva met Rasputin several years before
Speaker 1: during his traveling pilgrim days, and had been impressed by him.
Speaker 1: Keonya's face was striking, not least of all because her
Speaker 1: nose had been almost entirely eaten away by disease. But
Speaker 1: unlike so many others, Father Grigory seemed not to notice it.
Speaker 1: It was all the proof she needed that he was
Speaker 1: indeed blessed with religious powers. That was until another priest,
Speaker 1: a rival of Rasputin called Iliodore, took Keyonya under his
Speaker 1: wing and opened her eyes to the truth. Rasputin was
Speaker 1: a false prophet, he said, a sinner and a violator
Speaker 1: of women. She'd been hearing stories about him ever since,
Speaker 1: about its womanizing, his debauched parties, is occult powers. Over time,
Speaker 1: she became fixated on Rasputin in a different way. One night,
Speaker 1: in a small wooden shack hundreds of biles from Pukroskoy,
Speaker 1: Keanya sat reading a familiar passage in her Bible under
Speaker 1: the dim light of a solitary candle. Then fire from
Speaker 1: the Lord came down and burned the sacrifice. When all
Speaker 1: the people saw it, they fell down to the ground, crying,
Speaker 1: the Lord is God, The Lord is God. Then Elijah said,
Speaker 1: capture the prophets of Bar. Don't let any of them
Speaker 1: run away. When the false prophets were captured, Elijah led
Speaker 1: them down to the Kishon Valley, where he slaughtered them all.
Speaker 1: Then Elijah said to Ahab, now go go eat and drink,
Speaker 1: because a heavy rain is coming. Key read the story
Speaker 1: over and over again. With each reading, the words seemed
Speaker 1: to burn brighter and brighter on the page. It was
Speaker 1: all becoming clear to her. She knew exactly what she
Speaker 1: had to do. On June twenty ninth, nineteen fourteen, the
Speaker 1: day after he arrived in Pokrovskoy, Rasputin left his family's
Speaker 1: home and walked out into the afternoon sunshine. As the
Speaker 1: gate closed behind him, he turned his head to see
Speaker 1: a woman in black walking quickly towards him. The woman's
Speaker 1: face was hidden behind a white cloth, so that only
Speaker 1: her eyes were visible. Assuming the woman wanted some kind
Speaker 1: of blessing, Rasputin stopped and locked eyes with her. The
Speaker 1: woman stopped too, seeming suddenly a little hesitant. Then she
Speaker 1: bowed to him. For a brief moment, Rasputin saw the
Speaker 1: cloth fall from the woman's face to reveal a shocking
Speaker 1: wound where her nose should have been. Something glinted in
Speaker 1: the sun. Then Rasputin felt a cold, sharp pain in
Speaker 1: his stomach. He looked down to see the woman's hand
Speaker 1: against his cassock and what was clearly a dagger disappearing
Speaker 1: into his body. Rasputin screamed in pain as the woman
Speaker 1: withdrew a fifteen inch blade. In terror, he turned and
Speaker 1: ran as the woman chased him with the bloody dagger.
Speaker 1: Within seconds, a crowd had descended on the scene. As
Speaker 1: several onlookers tackled the woman, now revealed to be Keyonya Gusiva.
Speaker 1: Rasputin collapsed to the ground from blood loss. That night,
Speaker 1: as Rasputin continued to lie unconscious, a doctor performed emergency surgery.
Speaker 1: Keyanya's blade had damaged several of his internal organs, and
Speaker 1: although the surgery was a success, the doctor warned Rasputin's
Speaker 1: family that he would be lucky to survive the night.
Speaker 1: Rasputin spent the next few days dipping in and out
Speaker 1: of consciousness, barely breathing. Whenever he did come too, he
Speaker 1: was completely delirious. A priest arrived to administer his last rites.
Speaker 1: Newspapers across the nation ran headlines announcing the assassination attempt.
Speaker 1: They said Rasputin was on his deathbed with no hope
Speaker 1: of survival. But then one morning, Rasputin opened his eyes
Speaker 1: and sat up in bed. The following day he was
Speaker 1: deemed well enough to be transferred to a hospital in Tumin,
Speaker 1: the nearest major city. In the end, despite immense blood
Speaker 1: loss and internal injuries, Resputin made a full recovery. He
Speaker 1: had survived a mortal wound. As words spread of his
Speaker 1: remarkable recovery, more rumors began to fly that the legendary
Speaker 1: healer had healed himself. Resputin was unkillable. Some weeks later,
Speaker 1: he returned to Saint Petersburg, a legend, where he was
Speaker 1: greeted with open arms by the Czar and Czarina. They
Speaker 1: couldn't have been happier to see him return. They needed
Speaker 1: him now more than ever, because war was on the horizon.
Speaker 1: That summer of nineteen fourteen, the mood in Saint Petersburg
Speaker 1: was restless. The city ground to a halt amid hundreds
Speaker 1: of workers strikes. Another uprising seemed inevitable, or, as one
Speaker 1: newspaper put it, we are living on a volcano. But
Speaker 1: Czar Nicholas was distracted from the domestic chaos by an
Speaker 1: even larger looming threat. The longstanding tensions between Russia and
Speaker 1: its neighboring empire Germany were at boiling point. The German
Speaker 1: and Kaiser Wilhelm, the second was Nicholas's cousin, and they'd
Speaker 1: always maintained a relatively friendly relationship, now though it seemed
Speaker 1: family ties were no longer enough. In June, the assassination
Speaker 1: of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked the outbreak of war.
Speaker 1: As nations mobilized their militaries all across Europe, Russia found
Speaker 1: itself caught between its close ally Serbia, and the hostile
Speaker 1: empires of Germany and Austria Hungary. By August, the German
Speaker 1: government had declared war on Russia. But first this proved
Speaker 1: to be a political win for the Czar. War as
Speaker 1: a way of stoking up patriotism even among those previously
Speaker 1: indifferent to such things when your immediate survival is suddenly
Speaker 1: all that matters. And so for the most part, the
Speaker 1: Russian people forgot about revolution as they rushed to defend
Speaker 1: their borders. Shortly after the declaration of war, Czar Nicholas
Speaker 1: and Czarina Alexandra made an appearance on the balcony of
Speaker 1: the Winter Palace. There they were greeted by a huge
Speaker 1: exuberant crowd, who chanted God save the King. Together. After
Speaker 1: years of mounting resentment from the public, the Czar felt
Speaker 1: beloved and powerful again. War had reinvigorated him, but not
Speaker 1: everybody shared the public's enthusiasm. Britain's King George the Fifth,
Speaker 1: another cousin of the Czar, sent a letter pleading with
Speaker 1: Nicholas to demobilize the Russian army in the hope of
Speaker 1: de escalating the conflict and avoiding an all out world war. He,
Speaker 1: like many other allies, was concerned that the Tsar's judgment
Speaker 1: was compromised, he had become dangerously over confident in his
Speaker 1: and Russia's capabilities, and that the malign influence of Rasputin
Speaker 1: was to blame. But the Tsar refused to take heed.
Speaker 1: After all, was it King George who'd survived certain death,
Speaker 1: or Father Grigory, who better to trust than a clear
Speaker 1: vessel of the Lord himself. But now that Russia had
Speaker 1: entered the war, the stakes had never been higher, and
Speaker 1: the rumors about the mysterious mystic monk, as Rasputin came
Speaker 1: to be known, grew ever wilder. Soon, an allegation began
Speaker 1: to circulate that he had in fact been planted inside
Speaker 1: the royal court as a double agent and was leaking
Speaker 1: secrets to Germany. These rumors spread like wildfire among the
Speaker 1: Russian nobility, the church, and the general public. Over the years,
Speaker 1: Several of the Tsar's allies tried to make him see
Speaker 1: what a mistake he was making. They told him that
Speaker 1: his dependence on Rasputin was affecting his reputation, that giving
Speaker 1: the mystic monk so much influence over policies and appointments
Speaker 1: was eroding the public's trust in him. The French magician Papus,
Speaker 1: another of the Czar and Czarina's trusted confidants, was unequivocal,
Speaker 1: writing to the Czarina at the end of nineteen fifteen.
Speaker 1: Rasputin is a vessel like Pandora's box and contains all
Speaker 1: the vices, crimes, and lusts of the Russian people. Should
Speaker 1: this vessel break, we shall immediately see these horrible contents
Speaker 1: spilled all over Russia. When Rasputin was informed of the
Speaker 1: letter by the Tzarina, he concurred, why I've told you
Speaker 1: that many a time, When I die, Russia will perish.
Speaker 1: Tzar Nicholas ignored all the warnings to him. The benefits
Speaker 1: of Rasputin vastly outweighed the costs, and not only because
Speaker 1: he told him exactly what he wanted to hear. Rasputin
Speaker 1: also had a calming influence on Alexandra, who was prone
Speaker 1: to anxiety. Better ten Rasputins than one of the Empress's
Speaker 1: hysterical fits, as he once put it to Russia's Prime minister.
Speaker 1: But what Nicholas dismissed as hysteria was, in actuality, an
Speaker 1: entirely rational response to an increasingly dangerous reality. If Alexandra
Speaker 1: felt a sense of impending doom, an unshakable fear that
Speaker 1: everything was about to fall apart, she was right. In
Speaker 1: the spring and summer of nineteen fifteen, a wofully under
Speaker 1: equipped Russian army suffered a series of devastating losses, with
Speaker 1: thousands of Russian soldiers killed or taken prisoner by German forces.
Speaker 1: With few other options, commanders ordered a retreat and withdrew
Speaker 1: the Russian Army from much of the Eastern front. Sir
Speaker 1: Nicholas was furious. Withdrawal was a sign of weakness, precisely
Speaker 1: the thing he'd been working so hard to avoid. But
Speaker 1: when officials tried to persuade him that the Russian army
Speaker 1: had bitten off more than it could chew, he dismissed
Speaker 1: them angrily. In August nineteen fifteen, Nicholas made a fateful decision.
Speaker 1: Encouraged by both the silver tongued Rasputin and by the Czarina,
Speaker 1: he fired his uncle, Grand Duke Nicholas, the commander in
Speaker 1: chief of the Russian armies, and so the Tsar took
Speaker 1: control of them instead and departed immediately for the front lines.
Speaker 1: In his absence, the Tzarina Alexandra became the de facto
Speaker 1: reigning monarch, with Rasputin by her side. As always, to
Speaker 1: many onlookers, it seemed the so called mystic Monk had
Speaker 1: finally achieved exactly what he wanted. He was now effectively
Speaker 1: ruling the entire country through Alexandra. All along the Eastern Front,
Speaker 1: freezing and starving, Russian soldiers swapped stories about the many
Speaker 1: things they'd heard about Rasputin. Soon word was spreading that
Speaker 1: he'd recently tried to start a cholera epidemic in Saint
Speaker 1: Petersburg using a shipment of poisoned apples secretly imported from Canada.
Speaker 1: The soldiers wondered, why should they die in the mud
Speaker 1: while such a man reigned supreme at the Winter Palace.
Speaker 1: It was all just more fuel to the growing public
Speaker 1: resentment of the royal family and the wider ruling classes.
Speaker 1: It was clear to a growing number of the Russian
Speaker 1: nobility that if the monarchy had any chance of surviving,
Speaker 1: Rasputin had to be stopped by any means necessary. In
Speaker 1: mid December nineteen sixteen, Prince Felix Usupov, the wealthiest man
Speaker 1: in Russia at the time, invited Rasputin to dinner at
Speaker 1: his home, the Usupov Palace in Saint Petersburg. Rasputin arrived
Speaker 1: a few nights later, the sound of a party in
Speaker 1: full swing coming from upstairs, indistinct chatter and the distant
Speaker 1: strains of Yankee Doodle Dandy being played on a gramophone.
Speaker 1: After greeting Rasputin at the door, Usupov led him to
Speaker 1: the cellar and served him a glass of Madeira wine
Speaker 1: and a slice of cake. Unknown to Rasputin, there was
Speaker 1: no party upstairs, and both the wine and the cake
Speaker 1: were laced with a lethal dose of cyanide Yusupov watched
Speaker 1: on eagerly as Rasputin ate the cake and drank the wine,
Speaker 1: and when he'd finished, he simply asked for another glass
Speaker 1: of the wine. Usupov was stunned. Trying his best to
Speaker 1: hide its confusion, he poured Rasputin a second glass. Surely
Speaker 1: this would see him off, he thought, but Rasputin continued
Speaker 1: to drink, seemingly completely unaffected by the poison. With no
Speaker 1: other choice, Prince Yusupov was forced to lead Rasputin upstairs
Speaker 1: to the supposed party. Rasputin was then led into a
Speaker 1: room full of men, not party guests, but coke conspirators
Speaker 1: of Usupov. As the large, hulking frame of Rasputin stepped
Speaker 1: into the room, the men tried their best to hide
Speaker 1: their dismay. This dismay soon turned to fear. They'd always
Speaker 1: dismissed the stories about Rasputin's mystical powers, especially his supposed infallibility,
Speaker 1: And yet here he was, two glasses of cyanide down,
Speaker 1: and not a hint of discomfort on his face. The
Speaker 1: men greeted him warmly and invited him to join them.
Speaker 1: After some time talking, Rasputin finally complained of a burning
Speaker 1: sensation in his stomach and a heavy head Yusupov offered
Speaker 1: him another glass of the poisoned wine. Perhaps that might help,
Speaker 1: he said. Rasputin gladly accepted it. The men watched on
Speaker 1: again with barely concealed horror as the mystic monk finished
Speaker 1: off his third glass without any complaint. Slowly, As a
Speaker 1: few of the would be assassins continued to engage Rasputin
Speaker 1: in colmonsation, a small group of them quietly excused themselves
Speaker 1: from the room. Moments later, the men who'd left met
Speaker 1: in a neighboring room to discuss what on earth they
Speaker 1: should do next. The conversation descended into angry chaos. Finally,
Speaker 1: one man hit his breaking point. He strode back into
Speaker 1: the dining room, pulled out a pistol, and shot Rasputin
Speaker 1: at close range. The bullet landed close to his heart.
Speaker 1: A deadly blow, Rasputin crumpled to the ground, unconscious and
Speaker 1: bleeding profusely. His breath grew labored and ragged, until finally
Speaker 1: it stopped. The men watched on with a mix of
Speaker 1: shock and relief, the smoke from the gun tailing off
Speaker 1: into the air. One of the men took tentative, stepped
Speaker 1: forward and stood over the body, then leapt back in
Speaker 1: horror as Rasputin's eyes shot open. As the men looked
Speaker 1: on numbly, a wild eyed Rasputin staggered to his feet
Speaker 1: and launched himself at Prince Yusupov. It was as though
Speaker 1: the devil himself had entered him. He grabbed for Yusupov,
Speaker 1: but was pulled away by the other men. However, despite
Speaker 1: having just been shot in the heart, Rasputin was too
Speaker 1: strong for them. He broke from their grasp, stumbled out
Speaker 1: of the room, and disappeared down the darkened hallway. He
Speaker 1: made it into the courtyard outside before the group finally
Speaker 1: caught up with him. Outside in the freezing winter air,
Speaker 1: under the pale light of a waning moon, Prince Yusupov
Speaker 1: and his men charged into the courtyard to find a
Speaker 1: man with lank, black hair in a long black cassock,
Speaker 1: stumbling away from them. His hand was clutched to his
Speaker 1: chest and a line of blood trailed behind him on
Speaker 1: the icy ground. Stop. They yelled, but the man, seemingly possessed,
Speaker 1: continued to stagger forward. A volley of gunfire rang out
Speaker 1: as a hail of bullets flew into Rasputin's back. Finally,
Speaker 1: he collapsed again, and this time he did not get
Speaker 1: back up. But Prince Yusupov was leaving nothing to chance.
Speaker 1: They bound Rasputin's hands and feet with thick rope and
Speaker 1: wrapped his body in a sheet of linen. They bundled
Speaker 1: him into a car and drove out to Petrovsky Island
Speaker 1: in the west of the city. Together, the assassins threw
Speaker 1: Rasputin's body into the freezing waters of the Neva River.
Speaker 1: They watched somberly as it slipped beneath the surface and
Speaker 1: into the black waters below, until the ripples gradually receded
Speaker 1: and the body could no longer be seen. Finally, having
Speaker 1: survived a stabbing, a poisoning, and a seemingly fatal gunshot wound,
Speaker 1: Grigory Rasputin was dead. The temperature dropped below zero that night,
Speaker 1: and the river froze almost solid as a result. It
Speaker 1: took many days for the police to find Rasputin's body.
Speaker 1: When the icy corpse was finally recovered, an autopsy was
Speaker 1: conducted soon after, where in water was found in Rasputin's lungs,
Speaker 1: after all that he'd still been breathing when he hit
Speaker 1: the water. When news of Rasputin's death reached the public,
Speaker 1: people celebrated in the streets among their compatriots. Prince Yusupov
Speaker 1: and his fellow assassins were held up as patriotic heroes
Speaker 1: who'd done what had to be done to save the
Speaker 1: Russian Empire. For a while, the ruling classes hoped that
Speaker 1: getting rid of Rasputin would mean the Czar began listening
Speaker 1: to their advice again, but the damage had already been done.
Speaker 1: In fact, Rasputin's murder only added to the sense of
Speaker 1: chaos and decline that had surrounded the palace for years
Speaker 1: and fueled the public's anger. By then, the war had
Speaker 1: been raging for more than two years and had taken
Speaker 1: a devastating toll on Russia's economy and infrastructure. The nation's
Speaker 1: morale was obliterated, and with hundreds of thousands living in
Speaker 1: poverty and starvation. Anti monarchy sentiment came roaring back. In
Speaker 1: March of nineteen seventeen, the Russian Revolution began. The streets
Speaker 1: of Saint Petersburg were consumed by violent riots, and Czar
Speaker 1: Nicholas was forced to abdicate his throne. At long last,
Speaker 1: the Romanov dynasty had fallen, and with it the Russian Empire.
Speaker 1: It was seemingly just as Rasputin had predicted, when I die,
Speaker 1: Russia will perish. As furious hordes closed in on the
Speaker 1: winter Alice, Nicholas, Alexandra, and the rest of their family
Speaker 1: made a desperate attempt to flee the city, but they
Speaker 1: were captured by the revolutionary forces and held prisoner in Siberia.
Speaker 1: On July seventeenth, nineteen eighteen, Nicholas, Alexandra, their five children,
Speaker 1: and several members of the Imperial Entourach who had been
Speaker 1: imprisoned alongside them were executed On the night they were slaughtered.
Speaker 1: Each member of the family had an ambulet around their necks.
Speaker 1: When they were removed from the bodies later that day,
Speaker 1: each were found to contain a small prayer and a
Speaker 1: photograph of Grigory Rasputin. This episode was written by Emma
Speaker 1: Dibden and Richard mcla Unexplained as an AV Club Productions
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