March 26 is the birthday of Maria Rasputina (1898-1977), a woman at the center of one of the most entertaining tales of all the White Russians. The daughter of the famous Mad Monk Svengali to the Romanovs, after Rasputin's murder she married his designated successor Boris Soloviev, a mesmerist, Theosophist, and conductor of seances. In […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:26AM on March 26, 2019