St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humble peasant who became the most influential adviser to czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of the last czar, Nicholas II Romanov.
Mechthild Großmann
Herself - Narrator (voice)
Laurence Huot-Solovieff
Herself - Descendant
Boris Kolonitsky
Himself - Historian
Sergei Mironenko
Olga Utotschkina
Herself - Historian
Marie Turquois-Bowman
Herself - Writer
Florian Langer
Himself - Physician
Alexei Larionov
Himself - Art Historian
Yulia Pashkovskaya
Herself - Hotel Manager
Natalia Saizeva
Czar Nicholas II of Russia
Himself (archive footage)
Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna
Herself (archive footage)
Czarevitch Alexei Nikolaevich
Vladimir Lenin
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