Grigori Rasputin arrives in St. Petersburg as an unschooled Siberian peasant claiming healing powers, and within a few years he is a fixture inside the Romanov court. The film traces how he wins the trust of Empress Alexandra by easing the suffering of her hemophiliac son Alexei, and how that private access turns into political weight once Tsar Nicholas II leaves the capital in 1915 to command troops at the front. It lays out the contradictions that made him impossible to categorize: a self-proclaimed holy man who drank heavily and pursued women, an advisor whom ministers loathed but the imperial family protected. The film weighs the gap between the legend, built on rumor and self-serving memoirs, and what historians can actually confirm about his influence on state affairs during the war. His murder in December 1916, orchestrated by nobles who saw him as the source of Russia's wartime despair, closes the account, with the monarchy itself collapsing within months of his death.