

Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humble peasant who became the most influential adviser to czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of the last czar, Nicholas II Romanov.
Cast

Mechthild Großmann
Herself - Narrator (voice)
Laurence Huot-Solovieff
Herself - Descendant
Boris Kolonitsky
Himself - Historian
Sergei Mironenko
Himself - Historian
Olga Utotschkina
Herself - Historian
Marie Turquois-Bowman
Herself - Writer
Florian Langer
Himself - Physician
Alexei Larionov
Himself - Art Historian
Yulia Pashkovskaya
Herself - Hotel Manager
Natalia Saizeva
Herself - Historian

Czar Nicholas II of Russia
Himself (archive footage)
Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna
Herself (archive footage)
Czarevitch Alexei Nikolaevich
Himself (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin
Himself (archive footage)
Storyline
St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humble peasant who became the most influential adviser to czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of the last czar, Nicholas II Romanov.
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