Guest:
Doug Smith is an award-winning historian and translator. He is the author of five books on Russia. His last book Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy won the Pushkin House Russian Prize in 2013. His new book is Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs published by Macmillian.
Music:
Boney M., “Rasputin,” Nightflight to Venus, 1978.