Encore Drama

Imagine being granted exclusive access to the workings of an extraordinary, charismatic and deeply sinister mind.

On December 19, 1916, the body of Grigory Rasputin was dragged from a frozen river in St Petersburg, his bound hands clenched in fury as if he’d been scraping at the ice from below – despite being beaten, shot and hounded into his freezing, watery grave.

But what if the body was not Rasputin’s? What if the notorious Mad Monk somehow lived on as a prisoner of the Communists, destined to watch the rise of Stalin and the collapse of his beloved Romanov dynasty? What would he say to his captors – and the world?