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On a freezing night in December 1916, a group of powerful nobles gathered in a palace on the banks of the Neva River. They had one goal… to kill a man who would not die.” “They poisoned him. He lived.” “They shot him. He rose.” “They beat him, bound him, and threw him into an icy river.” “And eve…

On a freezing night in December 1916, a group of powerful nobles gathered in a palace on the banks of the Neva River. They had one goal… to kill a man who would not die.” “They poisoned him. He lived.” “They shot him. He rose.” “They beat him, bound him, and threw him into an icy river.” “And even then… some believed he was still alive.” “His name was Grigori Rasputin — the peasant who infiltrated an empire, bewitched a royal family, and became the most feared man in Russia.”