Antony Beevor: Rasputin. An evening at St Ann's Church, Manchester

Antony Beevor’s masterly accounts of traumatic twentieth century events – in books such as Stalingrad and Berlin- have made him easily one of the UK’s most esteemed historians. Now he turns his attention to the collapse of the three century- old Romanov dynasty through the lens of a figure who still exerts a macabre fascination: Grigory Rasputin. Beevor’s compelling account asks: how could this largely illiterate self-styled holy man and healer have risen to such a position and diverted the course of twentieth century Russian history? In this special event Antony Beevor discusses his new, revelatory work.