Danny Bird When people hear the name ‘Rasputin’, they tend to picture an almost cartoonish villain shrouded in myth and scandal. What drew you to his story and is there anything you want your readers

In January 1918, a few months after Lenin’s Bolsheviks had captured the Winter Palace in Petrograd, Rhoda Power left the house in Rostov-on-Don where she was employed as a governess and wandered throu

On the morning of 9 January 1905 (22 January on the New Style calendar Soviet Russia later adopted), a crowd of striking workers marched peacefully through Saint Petersburg towards the Winter Palace,

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He evaded justice for years, spinning an intricate web of lies, but was the truth finally going to catch up with Nicholas Rossi?

Originally shown on Channel 5 Streaming now on the Channel 5 app Queen Victoria’s 63-year reign saw Britain transform into an industrial powerhouse and the head of a global empire. But when Victoria b