Mystery Files - Season 1 - Eps 5: Rasputin
On December 16th 1916, Grigory Rasputin, self-styled faith healer and confident to the Tsar was fatally shot in the back of the head. His enemies fear that his hold over the Romanov family has gone too far. This is the story of how a simple peasant rose through the ranks of Russian aristocracy to win the ear of the Tsar and Tsarina and essentially become one of the most powerful men in Russia. Unfortunately for him, his influence over the family would attract the attention of many enemies, ensure his fall from grace and ultimately lead to his grisly death. Rasputin’s demise, according to history, centres around a group of Russian nobles, Vladimir Purishkevich, Felix Yusupov and Dmitri Pavlovich, who, in later years, all admitted to being involved in his assassination.
About Mystery Files
Title: Mystery Files
First Air Date: 2010-02-01
Last Air Date: 2011-06-14
Status: Ended
Rating: 1/10 (from 1 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 2
Total Episodes: 26
Network: National Geographic Smithsonian Channel Investigation Discovery
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Parthenon Entertainment
Synopsis
From the Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood to the recent events of the Russian Revolution, history is full of fascinating and evocative unsolved mysteries. They have inspired, intrigued and often confounded us – but how much do we really know about them? And can we separate fact from fiction? In Mystery Files, the dust is blown off the case files of the world’s most famous and iconic mysteries in a dynamic series that asks, what is the truth behind the greatest stories ever told?
Cast
Struan Rodger
Himself / Narrator
