5x15 Special: Antony Beevor on Rasputin

We’re excited to bring back 5x15 Specials: solo evenings with remarkable voices who change how we see the world.

Join 5x15 in March to hear Antony Beevor live at Conway Hall, where he will deliver a thrilling and insightful talk about one of history's most destructive masterminds.

Grigori Rasputin, the wild mystic who seduced the Romanovs and laid the ground for the Russian revolution, has been a figure of endless fascination. Was he a visionary, a fraud, or a victim of history?

In his extraordinary new work, Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs, Antony Beevor pierces through the fog of fantasy to discover the real Rasputin. The result is a masterful account of how a barely literate moujhik from Siberia, with no official position, contributed more than any other individual to the collapse of the greatest autocracy in the world.

Antony Beevor is the author of thirteen works of non-fiction, including Crete (1991), which was awarded a Runciman Prize; Stalingrad (1998), which won the first Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature; and D-Day (2009), which received the Prix Henry Malherbe in France and the Westminster Medal, and was a no.1 bestseller in seven countries. He has received honorary doctorates and fellowships from five universities and was knighted in 2017.

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