For more than a century, historians have claimed Tsarist nobles murdered the power-mad peasant-turned-mystic. Now a sensational new book claims it was actually an Englishman who finished the mad monk off with a bullet to the head.
Within days of the mystic s death in 1916, rumours were swirling that Britain – terrified by the prospect of Russia unilaterally quitting the First World War – was behind the brutal killing. Douglas Smith investigates a century-old murder mystery.
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