他，一半是人，一半是疯子，在皇宫里，皇家的内部被疾病缠绕，直接威胁了皇位的继承和国家的安危。面临如此局面，他出现了，拥有神奇的魔法，拯救了帝国的前途，然而，他黑暗的背面，却是极度危险的深渊，勾引和破坏也随之泛滥......

Russia, 1916. Be it by craft or madness, Rasputin exercises power over the indecisive Nicholas, and the religious Czarina worships the Siberian as God. He manipulates the Czar in his relations with the Duma and influences the choice of a new premier. Rasputin assaults a baroness; her husband is jailed for defending her, and she must offer sexual favors to Rasputin to save her husband. The Czar finally orders Rasputin from St. Petersburg, but somehow he enters the palace and, in a disheveled trance, convinces the Czar to make a disastrous change in war strategy. A cadre of nobles take matters into their own hands and arrange a last dinner party for the interloping monk. Written by {[email protected]}

这是一个在很大程度上虚构的俄罗斯神秘主义者格里高利·拉斯普廷 （Grigori Rasputin） 的故事，他在俄国革命之前对沙皇产生了很大的影响，尽管导致拉斯普京被暗杀的一些事件非常松散地基于尤苏波夫王子对故事的描述。出于法律原因（电影上映时尤苏波夫还活着），尤苏波夫的角色被伊万（马修斯）取代。