Rasputin Part 1: How to Catch a Tsarina | 16

Even The Royals

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.4 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Pop culture has painted Grigori Rasputin as a power-mad mystic who rose from the dead and destroyed the Russian dynasty. But the truth about Rasputin is a lot more complex. In this two-part series, we follow the story of a peasant who dreams of rising to the top of society and a Russian Tsarina desperate for a miracle. But the higher Rasputin climbs, the more his enemies want him gone – for good.

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0:00.0	Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to Even the Royals early and ad-free right now.
0:04.1	Join Wonderly Plus in the Wonderry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:07.7	A quick note about our show.
0:09.8	We do a lot of research for our stories, but we also aren't your boring high school history class.
0:14.9	So some details and scenes are dramatized.
0:17.1	And today's episode contains content that is unsuitable for aristocratic ears.
0:22.0	Please be advised.
0:28.8	All right, Brookie.
0:30.2	Let's take it back to 1999.
0:32.8	Oh.
0:33.1	It's a Friday night.
0:34.7	Wow, so recent.
0:42.4	Well, hold your horses. Okay. Okay, it's a Friday night. Wow, so recent. Well, hold your horses. Okay. Okay, it's a Friday night. You've just returned home from a tanning session at your friends in-home tanning bed. And you're ready to kick
0:48.8	back and let those sweet, sweet cancer rays do their work. Uh-huh. So you go to your VHS collection
0:53.8	and pick out an animated movie, one that has an amazing villain.
0:58.5	What's it going to be?
0:59.7	I mean, I got to go Beauty and the Beast.
1:02.9	It's my favorite animated Disney movie, so.
1:06.7	Okay, important question.
1:08.5	Is the Beast hotter as the Beast or as the Prince?
1:10.6	The beast.
1:11.8	Right?
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