Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny is a biographical 1996 TV film which chronicles the last four years (1912–16) of Grigori Rasputin's stint as a healer to Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich–the heir apparent to the Russian throne as well as the only son of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna–who suffered from haemophilia. The film is narrated in the first person by Alexei.
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