The Dinner To Kill Rasputin
March, 1978
A slight meal, this one (cupcakes and wine) but one of consequence--since it caused, or rather helped cause, the death of the most feared man in Russia. The victim was the "gigantic monk," Gregory Elimovitch Rasputin, a quack whose supposed supernatural powers had gained him control over the Czarina Alexandra and the Czarist household. The Czarina could not resist him. In her dispatches to the Czar she always referred to him as "Our Friend," and she had such an exalted opinio...
