Tag: RASPUTIN

Rasputin: Lover of the Russian queen

Grigori Rasputin, born in 1869, was a Russian mystic who gained significant influence within the Russian imperial court of the last Romanov monarch, Tsar...

Why cyanide alone may have failed to kill Rasputin

The end of December marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Rasputin, the “mad monk of Russia”, or “lover of the Russian queen”...

Daughter of S.Korea’s ‘Rasputin’ arrested in Denmark

The daughter of Choi Soon-Sil, the woman at the centre of a corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of South Korea's President, has...

S. Korea’s detained ‘Rasputin’ snubs lawmakers from jail cell

The woman at the heart of the impeachment crisis surrounding South Korean President Park Geun-Hye refused to leave her jail cell Monday for questioning...