NEW YORK — It’s not uncommon for a 12-year-old girl to have an imaginary friend, but even so, young Addison’s confidant is a little out of the ordinary: Rasputin, the Russian pseudo-monk who became ...

Thrown out of his monastery for licentious and drunken behaviour, Rasputin travels to St Petersburg to try his luck. Through a dalliance with one of the czarina's ladies in waiting he soon gains ...

Alain Goldman’s Legende, producer of “La Vie en rose,” Martin Scorsese’s “Casino” and Ridley Scott’s “1492,” will produce the $25 million “Rasputin — the Healer.” The English-language “Rasputin” is ...

When Walt Disney was building Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion ride in the 1960s, he rejected a proposed portrait of the almost unkillable Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin. How come? He was afraid of ...

A London courtroom. On the bench, pale and dignified in a black gown and white wig, last week sat 82-year-old Justice Sir Horace Avory. Before him, also gowned and wigged, were two of the greatest ...