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Find the full, uncensored versions of my essays and more at: https://horses.land/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/horses.ig/ Special thanks to my friend and Russian tutor Polina! If you want to learn Russian, reach out to her on facebook or Italki: https://tinyurl.com/POLINAITALKI https://tinyurl.com/PolinaFB Paintings: Ivan Shishkin - Morning in a Pine Forest Ivan Shishkin - Rye Mikhail Nesterov - Venerable Sergius of Radonezh Mikhail Nesterov - Vision of Youth Bartholomew Jose Guadalupe Posada - Horroroso Asesinato Ilya Repin - Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan Ilya Repin - The Zaporozhian Cossacks Music: Magnus Ludvigsson - Le Vieux Chien de Marseille String Quartet No. 19 In C Major, K. 465 I. Adagio Allegro Medite - Once We Had It All Jon Algar - Buried by Time Howard Harper-Barnes - Subtle Differences Fabien Tell - Maroon Megan Wofford - Ballad in D Minor Johannes Bornlof - Salvation Franz Gordon - The Autumn Manus Ludvigsson - Valse Triste Nicoise String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op 41_ Adagio, Part 2 SOURCES: Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs, by Douglas Smith Rasputin, by the BBC (1994) Interviews with author/historian Douglas Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xtCyQuMf2Q&ab_channel=RanchoMirageLibrary%26Observatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwRJ1MwwDDY&t=2s&ab_channel=EllisonCenter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1GI2f6zHfo&ab_channel=MostNotorious%21