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Did you watch the 1997 classic “Anastasia” as a kid? We’re willing to bet the villain Rasputin – who sells his soul to kill the Romanov family in the movie – showed up in your nightmares.
Evidence seems to suggest that Destiny 2 may be on its way to a Rasputin-focused season next year, which would be almost two years after the AI Warmind was evacuated from Mars and shoved in an engram.
Rasputin was killed by a group of Russian nobles, including Prince Felix Youssupov (Czar Nicholas’ niece’s husband) and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich (Nicholas’ cousin) in December 1916.
On Dec. 16, 1916, Prince Felix Youssoupov, a delicate young man who had inherited a fortune estimated at $300,000,000, invited Rasputin to his palace after dinner to meet some women.
The Death of Rasputin Through May 31 at the Arts Center at Governors Island, Manhattan; deathofrasputin.com. Running time: 1 hour 15 minutes. Alexis Soloski has written for The Times since 2006.