He featured in your favorite non-Disney animated princess movie, and now you can learn all about the real man behind the creepy cartoon villain (spoiler: it's not far off!) This week, Hannah tells Katy about Grigori Rasputin, the peasant-turned-holy-man who became a close confidant of the Russian Imperial Family in the early 1900's. From Katy's bloody mandolin accident, to security blankets (real and metaphorical), to dirty genitalia, this episode details the wild life of a man who convinced the Tsarina (and himself) that he was imbued with God-given powers, and was the only hope for her dying child; and it ultimately led to his completely unhinged (and likely exaggerated) assassination. You won't want to miss this disaster of a biography.

So pour your drinks, put down the Aspirin, and join us for this macabre tale from one of the darker corners of history.

Sources:
https://archive.org/details/rasputin0000shuk/page/22/mode/2up?view=theater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Nikolaevich,_Tsarevich_of_Russia
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-really-happened-during-murder-rasputin-russia-mad-monk-180961572/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-many-lives-of-maria-rasputin-daughter-of-the-mad-monk

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