Grigory Rasputin, holy man and intimate of the Russian royal family, was murdered in the basement of a St. Petersburg palace in 1916. To his many enemies he was the incarnation of evil genius; he died because they held him to be the real power behind a throne that his malign influence was destroying.
Biography of Siberian-born mystic Grigori Rasputin, discussing his religious visions and conversion, disagreements with the Russian Orthodox church, relationships and influence upon the Romanovs, and murder at the hands of a nobleman.
Chronicles twentieth-century Great Britain in pictures, from the height of the British Empire to its current incarnation as a leader in world literature, fashion, theater, and global popular culture.
William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the writing of the English Bible--a story of martyrdom and betrayal
Moynahan, Brian
2003
Chronicles the life of William Tyndale, discussing his childhood in England, his translation of God's word into the English Bible in 1524, his exile, and his capture and death.
