You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reasons:

This IP address has been blocked from editing Wikipedia.
This does not affect your ability to read Wikipedia pages.
Most people who see this message have done nothing wrong. Some kinds of blocks restrict editing from specific service providers or telecom companies in response to recent abuse or vandalism, and can sometimes affect other users who are unrelated to that abuse. Review the information below for assistance if you do not believe that you have done anything wrong.

The IP address or range 44.201.0.0/16 has been blocked (disabled) by ‪ST47‬ for the following reason(s):

The IP address that you are currently using has been blocked because it is believed to be a web host provider. To prevent abuse, web hosts may be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
You will not be able to edit Wikipedia using a web host provider because it hides your IP address, much like a proxy or VPN.
We recommend that you attempt to use another connection to edit. For example, if you use a proxy or VPN to connect to the internet, turn it off when editing Wikipedia. If you edit using a mobile connection, try using a Wi-Fi connection, and vice versa. If you are using a corporate internet connection, switch to a different Wi-Fi network. If you have a Wikipedia account, please log in.
If you do not have any other way to edit Wikipedia, you will need to request an IP block exemption.

How to appeal if you are confident that your connection does not use a web host's IP address:
If you are confident that you are not using a web host, you may appeal this block by adding the following text on your talk page: ((unblock|reason=Caught by a web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. My IP address is _______. Place any further information here. ~~~~)). You must fill in the blank with your IP address for this block to be investigated. Your IP address can be determined here. Alternatively, if you wish to keep your IP address private you can use the unblock ticket request system. There are several reasons you might be editing using the IP address of a web host (such as if you are using VPN software or a business network); please use this method of appeal only if you think your IP address is in fact not a web host.

Administrators: The IP block exemption user right should only be applied to allow users to edit using web host in exceptional circumstances, and they should usually be directed to the functionaries team via email. If you intend to give the IPBE user right, a CheckUser needs to take a look at the account. This can be requested most easily at SPI Quick Checkuser Requests. Unblocking an IP or IP range with this template is highly discouraged without at least contacting the blocking administrator.

This block will expire on 23:54, 31 July 2024.

Even when blocked, you will usually still be able to edit your user talk page, as well as email administrators and other editors.

For information on how to proceed, please read the FAQ for blocked users and the guideline on block appeals. The guide to appealing blocks may also be helpful.

Other useful links: Blocking policy · Help:I have been blocked
Your IP address is in a range that has been blocked on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis. The block was made by ‪AntiCompositeNumber‬. The reason given is Open proxy/Webhost: Visit the FAQ if you are affected .
- Start of block: 13:55, 18 August 2022
- Expiry of block: 13:55, 18 April 2025
Your current IP address is 44.201.28.123. The blocked range is 44.201.0.0/16. Please include all above details in any queries you make. If you believe you were blocked by mistake, you can find additional information and instructions in the No open proxies global policy. Otherwise, to discuss the block please post a request for review on Meta-Wiki. You could also send an email to the stewards VRT queue at stewards@wikimedia.org including all above details.

You can view and copy the source of this page:

((Use dmy dates|date=April 2020))
((Sources|date=February 2024))
((Infobox television
| image                = Rasputin-dark-servant.gif
| image_size           =
| image_alt            = 
| caption              = ''Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny'' film poster
| genre                = [[Biographical film|Biography]]<br />[[Historical drama]]
| creator              = 
| based_on             = 
| writer               = Peter Pruce
| screenplay           = 
| story                = 
| director             = [[Uli Edel]]
| starring             = [[Alan Rickman]]<br>[[Greta Scacchi]]<br>[[Ian McKellen]]<br>[[David Warner (actor)|David Warner]]<br>[[John Wood (English actor)|John Wood]]
| narrated             = 
| theme_music_composer = [[Brad Fiedel]]
| country              = United States
| num_episodes         = 
| executive_producer   = David R. Ginsburg<br />[[David Kirkpatrick (producer)|David Kirkpatrick]]
| producer             = Nick Gillott<br />Galina Tuchinsky
| editor               = Seth Flaum<br>Dan Rae
| cinematography       = [[Elemér Ragályi]]
| location             = [[Budapest, Hungary]]<br>[[St. Petersburg, Russia]]
| runtime              = 100 min.
| company              = [[HBO Pictures]]<br />Rysher / Citadel Entertainment
| budget               = 
| network              = HBO
| first_aired          = ((Film date|TV=yes|1996|3|23)) 
))
'''''Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny''''' is a 1996 [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[historical drama]] television film which chronicles the last four years (1912&ndash;16) of [[Grigori Rasputin]]'s stint as a healer to Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia; the heir apparent to the [[Russian Empire|Russia]]n throne as well as the only son of [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar Nicholas II of Russia]] and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna; who suffered from [[hemophilia]]. The film is narrated in the first person by Alexei.

==Plot==
In 1991, the remains of Russian [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar Nicholas II]] and his family (except for Alexei and Maria) are discovered. The voice of Nicholas's young son, [[Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia|Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich]], narrates the remainder of the story.

1883 [[West Siberian plain|Western Siberia]], a young [[Grigori Rasputin]] is asked by his father and a group of men to perform magic. Rasputin has a vision and denounces one of the men as a horse thief. Although his father initially slaps him for making such an accusation, Rasputin watches as the man is chased outside and beaten.

Twenty years later, Rasputin sees a vision of the [[Virgin Mary]], prompting him to become a priest. Rasputin quickly becomes famous, with people, even a bishop, begging for his blessing.

Meanwhile, in [[St. Petersburg]], Alexei is confined to his bed suffering from severe bruising to his leg caused by [[Hemophilia B]], a disease that prevents proper blood clotting. Nicholas has so far kept Alexei's illness a secret from the Russian people. [[Eugene Botkin]], the family's court physician, has been unable to help the boy. Alexei's mother, Tsarina [[Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)|Alexandra Feodorovna]] asks to see a spiritual healer, and is recommended to call upon Rasputin.

Rasputin is summoned to the Tsar's palace and brought before Alexei. Rasputin startles Nicholas and Alexandra by asking Alexei about his leg, despite neither of them having told him of Alexei's affliction. Rasputin soothes Alexei with images of sailing whilst he places his hand on the boy's leg. Rasputin limps away, causing Alexandra to believe he has absorbed Alexei's pain into his own body. Nicholas asks Rasputin how he knew about Alexei's leg, and Rasputin responds that the Virgin Mary told him and sent him to heal Alexei; Nicholas remains skeptical.

The next morning, Alexei awakens in perfect health and proclaims that Rasputin has healed him with magic. Dr. Botkin insists that it was a treatment he started using on Alexei the week before. Alexandra visits Rasputin to thank him. Rasputin questions Alexandra's faith in God, placing the blame for Alexei's disease on her weak prayers. Alexandra asks that Rasputin move in with the family and gives him his own chamber in the palace.

Rasputin begins to become acquainted with Nicholas's daughters, [[Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia|Olga]], [[Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia|Tatiana]], [[Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia|Maria]], and [[Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia|Anastasia]]; worrying Nicholas after he hears rumors of Rasputin's womanizing and flings with prostitutes. Nicholas soon asks Rasputin to leave the palace.

Later, Alexei suffers a severe nosebleed and Alexandra begs for Rasputin to be brought back to heal her son again. Rasputin returns and heals Alexei, converting Nicholas in the process, although Dr. Botkin remains convinced that Rasputin is merely hypnotizing Alexei.

Dr. Botkin vents his suspicions to Russian Prime Minister [[Pyotr Stolypin]], who sends men to spy on Rasputin.
A woman named Princess Marisa visits Rasputin, asking to be blessed. Rasputin tells her that before one can ask for absolution one must sin, and convinces her to have sex with him. Stolypin's spies watch this happen.

Stolypin approaches Nicholas with his findings, and with news that rumors are circulating throughout Russia regarding Rasputin's stay at the palace and closeness to the Imperial Family, particularly Alexandra. That night, a drunken Rasputin makes some obscene comments about the Imperial Family and is brought before the Tsar. Nicholas banishes Rasputin from St. Petersburg, and Rasputin prophesies a terrible future for Russia and Stolypin's own assassination. A month later Nicholas is informed of the onset of [[World War I]], and Stolypin is shot and killed.

Alexei suffers another severe bleeding, prompting Alexandra and Nicholas to call Rasputin. Rasputin heals Alexei over the phone, re-confirming Nicholas's faith in the healer. Rasputin is forgiven and returns to the palace.

As millions of Russian soldiers die in World War I, citizens place the blame on Alexandra and Rasputin. Rasputin stops seeing the Virgin Mary, causing Alexandra and his fellow monks to desert him.

A group of men led by [[Prince Felix Yusupov]] decide to murder Rasputin and invite him to the [[Moika Palace|Yusupov palace]] in December 1916. Felix feeds Rasputin cakes and wine laced with lethal amounts of [[cyanide]], but is horrified when it seems to have no effect. Felix then shoots Rasputin, who still does not die. Rasputin stumbles through the courtyard to the palace gates before being shot four more times, finally collapsing and dying. His body is thrown from a bridge into the icy [[Malaya Nevka River]].
 
Alexandra reads a note left behind by Rasputin, revealing his prior knowledge that he would be murdered, and that should the murderers be nobles, the Imperial Family would die within two years.

In 1917, with Russia on the verge of collapse due to the war, Nicholas is forced to abdicate as Tsar and is sent into exile with his family. The Imperial Family is [[Shooting of the Romanov family|executed]] in [[Yekaterinburg]] on 17 July 1918.

==Cast==
((castlist|
* [[Alan Rickman]] as [[Grigori Rasputin]]
* [[Greta Scacchi]] as [[Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)|Tsarina Alexandra]]
* [[Ian McKellen]] as [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar Nicholas II]]
* Freddie Finlay as [[Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia|Tsarevich Alexei]]
* [[David Warner (actor)|David Warner]] as [[Eugene Botkin|Dr. Botkin]]
* [[John Wood (English actor)|John Wood]] as [[Pyotr Stolypin|Prime Minister Stolypin]]
* [[James Frain]] as [[Felix Yusupov|Prince Felix Yusupov]]
* [[Ian Hogg (actor)|Ian Hogg]] as [[Vladimir Purishkevich|Purishkevich]]
* [[Sheila Ruskin]] as Princess Marisa
* [[Peter Jeffrey]] as [[Hermogenes (Dolganyov)|Bishop Hermogones]]
* [[Julian Curry]] as Dr. Lazovert
))

==Historical accuracy==
Russian Prime Minister [[Pyotr Stolypin]] is shown to have been killed in 1913, on the occasion of the [[House of Romanov|Romanov]] dynasty's [[Romanov Tercentenary#History|Tercentenary]] celebration, and just prior to the outbreak of [[World War I]], while he was actually killed in 1911.

The Russian Orthodox Choir which sings the litany at the Tercentenary liturgy also seems to be a choir of the 1990s, since the Patriarch Alexei is mentioned by name. The Patriarchate in fact did not exist under the later Romanovs, having been abolished by [[Peter the Great]].

==Reception==
[[Caryn James]] in ''[[The New York Times]]'' praised Rickman, McKellen and Scacchi, and called the film "fascinating... a cleverly entertaining character study".<ref>((cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/22/arts/tv-weekend-sincere-but-not-saintly-the-czarina-s-mystic.html | work=[[The New York Times]] | title=Sincere but Not Saintly, the Czarina's Mystic | first=Caryn | last=James | author-link=Caryn James| date=22 March 1996 | access-date=9 February 2024))</ref>

==Awards and nominations==
''Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny'' won a [[Golden Globe]] for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for TV.<ref name="globes">((cite web |url=https://goldenglobes.com/tv-show/rasputin/ |title=Golden Globe Awards ((!)) Rasputin |accessdate=February 8, 2024|work=goldenglobes.com))</ref> [[Alan Rickman]], starring as [[Grigori Rasputin|Rasputin]], won an [[Emmy]] (along with [[Greta Scacchi]] playing [[Alix of Hesse|Tsarina Alexandra]]) and a Golden Globe for his work in this movie.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1996/outstanding-lead-actor-in-a-miniseries-or-a-movie|title=1996 - 48th Emmy Awards ((!)) Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special - 1996|website=emmys.com|access-date=2024-02-08))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1996/outstanding-supporting-actress-in-a-miniseries-or-a-movie|title=1996 - 48th Emmy Awards ((!)) Outstanding Supporting Actress for a Miniseries or Special - 1996|website=emmys.com|access-date=2024-02-08))</ref><ref name="globes" /> [[Ian McKellen]], playing [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar Nicholas II]], won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor, and was nominated an [[Emmy]] for Best Supporting Actor.<ref name="globes" /><ref>((cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1996/outstanding-supporting-actor-in-a-miniseries-or-a-movie|title=1996 - 48th Emmy Awards ((!)) Outstanding Supporting Actor for a Miniseries or a Special - 1996|website=emmys.com|access-date=2024-02-08))</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Association
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
|-
| rowspan="7"| 1996
| rowspan="2"| [[CableACE Awards]]
| [[CableACE Awards|Best Costume Design]]
| Natasha Landau 
| ((nom))
|-
| [[CableACE Awards|Best Supporting Actress in a Movie or Miniseries]]
| Greta Scacchi
| ((nom))
|-
| rowspan="5"| [[Primetime Emmy Awards]]
| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie|Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie]]
| Elemér Ragályi 
| ((won))
|-
| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special|Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special]]
| Natasha Landau 
| ((nom))
|-
| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie|Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie]]
| Alan Rickman
| ((won))
|-
| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie|Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie]]
| Ian McKellen
| ((nom))
|-
| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie]]
| Greta Scacchi
| ((won))
|-
| rowspan="8"| 1997
| rowspan="4"| [[Golden Globe Awards]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film|Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film]]
| [[Alan Rickman]]
| ((won))
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film|Best Miniseries or Television Film]]
| ''Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny''
| ((won))
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film|Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film]]
| [[Ian McKellen]]
| ((won))
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film|Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film]]
| [[Greta Scacchi]]
| ((nom))
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[Satellite Awards]]
| [[Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film|Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film]]
| Alan Rickman
| ((won))
|-
| [[Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film|Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film]]
| Ian McKellen
| ((nom))
|-
| [[Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film|Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film]]
| Greta Scacchi
| ((nom))
|-
| [[Screen Actors Guild Awards]]
| [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie|Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie]]
| Alan Rickman
| ((won))
|-
|}

==References==
((reflist))

==External links==
((wikiquote))
* ((IMDb title|0117442))

((Grigori Rasputin in popular culture))
((Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film 1971–1999))
((Uli Edel))

[[Category:American television films]]
[[Category:American biographical films]]
[[Category:1996 television films]]
[[Category:1996 films]]
[[Category:1990s biographical films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Uli Edel]]
[[Category:Films set in 19th-century Russian Empire]]
[[Category:Films set in 20th-century Russian Empire]]
[[Category:Films shot in Hungary]]
[[Category:Best Miniseries or Television Movie Golden Globe winners]]
[[Category:Films about Grigori Rasputin]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Nicholas II of Russia]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia]]
[[Category:1990s American films]]

Pages transcluded onto the current version of this page (help):

Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (edit)
Template:Ambox (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Cast listing (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Castlist (view source) (extended confirmed protected)
Template:Cite news (view source) (protected)
Template:Cite web (view source) (protected)
Template:Country2nationality (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:DMCA (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Dated maintenance category (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Dated maintenance category (articles) (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Div col (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Div col/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:EditAtWikidata (view source) (protected)
Template:FULLROOTPAGENAME (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Film date (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Find sources mainspace (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film (edit)
Template:Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film 1971–1999 (edit)
Template:Grigori Rasputin in popular culture (edit)
Template:Has short description (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Hlist/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Template:IMDb title (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:ISO 3166 code (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:If both (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:If empty (view source) (protected)
Template:If preview (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Infobox (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Infobox television (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Infobox television/Short description (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Iso2nationality (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:MONTHNAME (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:MONTHNUMBER (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Main other (view source) (protected)
Template:More citations needed (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Navbox (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Nom (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Ns has subpages (view source) (protected)
Template:PAGENAMEBASE (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Pagetype (view source) (protected)
Template:Plainlist (view source) (protected)
Template:Plainlist/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Template:Pluralize from text (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Reflist (view source) (protected)
Template:Reflist/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Template:SDcat (view source) (protected)
Template:Short description (view source) (protected)
Template:Short description/lowercasecheck (view source) (protected)
Template:Side box (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Sister project (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Small (view source) (protected)
Template:Sources (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Start date (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Template other (view source) (protected)
Template:Trim (view source) (protected)
Template:Uli Edel (edit)
Template:Use dmy dates (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Wikidata (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:WikidataCheck (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Wikiquote (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Won (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Arguments (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/blacklist (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/config (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/data (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/shared (view source) (protected)
Module:Check for unknown parameters (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1 (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/COinS (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Date validation (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Whitelist (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Module:Detect singular (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Disambiguation/templates (view source) (protected)
Module:EditAtWikidata (view source) (protected)
Module:Find sources (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Find sources/config (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Find sources/links (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Find sources/templates/Find sources mainspace (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:GetParameters (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:ISO 3166 (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:ISO 3166/data/National (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:If empty (view source) (protected)
Module:If preview (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:If preview/configuration (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:If preview/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Infobox (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Infobox/dates (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Infobox/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:InfoboxImage (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Infobox television (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Infobox television disambiguation check (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Italic title (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Message box (view source) (protected)
Module:Message box/ambox.css (view source) (protected)
Module:Message box/configuration (view source) (protected)
Module:Namespace detect/config (view source) (protected)
Module:Namespace detect/data (view source) (protected)
Module:Navbar (view source) (protected)
Module:Navbar/configuration (view source) (protected)
Module:Navbar/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Module:Navbox (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Navbox/configuration (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Navbox/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Ns has subpages (view source) (protected)
Module:Pagetype (view source) (protected)
Module:Pagetype/config (view source) (protected)
Module:Pagetype/disambiguation (view source) (protected)
Module:Pagetype/setindex (view source) (protected)
Module:Pagetype/softredirect (view source) (protected)
Module:SDcat (view source) (protected)
Module:Side box (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Side box/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:String (view source) (protected)
Module:String2 (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Television infoboxes disambiguation check (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Text (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Unsubst (view source) (protected)
Module:Ustring (view source) (protected)
Module:Wd (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Wd/i18n (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:WikidataCheck (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Wikitext Parsing (view source) (protected)
Module:Yesno (view source) (protected)

Return to Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputin:_Dark_Servant_of_Destiny"