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THE IDES OF APRIL
A Christmas Assassination: The Death of Rasputin
Christmas 1916.
Russia is starving. The First World War is grinding the empire into dust. Faith, monarchy, and legitimacy are collapsing in real time.
And inside a candlelit palace, a small group of aristocrats convinces itself that killing one man might still save the nation.
In this stand-alone holiday episode of The Ides of April, we examine the assassination of Grigori Rasputin—a murder born of fear, myth, and desperation, carried out just days before Christmas, and destined to change nothing.
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