On the morning of December 29, 1916, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was startled by a phone call that turned out to be yet another death threat. His daughter, Maria, later remembered that it put him ...

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Rasputin is of peasant stock and a Siberian. In the summer of 1914 he was reported to have been mortally wounded at Pokrovsky by a woman who accused him of blasphemy. He recovered.

The Rasputin tragedy passed at the time behind closed doors, except for Rasputin's own entire indifference to public scandal. By now almost every one of the persons who could give valuable first-hand ...

The Death of Rasputin Through May 31 at the Arts Center at Governors Island, Manhattan; deathofrasputin.com. Running time: 1 hour 15 minutes. Alexis Soloski has written for The Times since 2006.