Pāhonoa te oro

They poisoned him. They shot him. They beat him… and left him for dead in the freezing dark. But somehow… he kept coming back. This is not a myth. This is not a legend. This is the story of the man who refused to die… and almost didn’t. In the early 1900s, deep inside the collapsing empire of Russia, a mysterious figure rose from nothing. His name was Grigori Rasputin. A peasant. A wanderer. A man with no formal education… and yet, an unsettling presence. He claimed to be a holy man. A he