Let's Analyze This Picture of Rasputin and Friends

I spy with my wonky eye the Empress' confidante, Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova, next to the chick with the mustache and arched eyebrows on the left!

Wtf is going on with that women's nose? The one standing in the doorway?

I spy two cookie smellers in the corner, lol.

There is no one even remotely good-looking at that party, so I would have left long before the photo was taken.

[quote] Wtf is going on with that women's nose?

That's a man, baby!

Now this is what I call music - and you LEARN something as well!

R2, knowing the Deluge is just around the corner, she's into the vodka by 9 each morning!

Who would make a better Rasputin: Jared Leto or Shia LaBeouf?

Jared Leto definitely, R8. Not only is there a physical resemblance, but he is also a better actor.

"Wtf is going on with that women's nose? The one standing in the doorway?"

Ees colt dere, vhat you tink? Ees vhy I go Florida now.

I see inbreeding.

[quote]It's the 1914 Romanov version of the 1925 Shorpy Christmas Party

I think I even see DL diva Svetlata, way over in her accustomed spot on the left! I wonder if she imagined that in barely a decade she'd be celebrating with a very different crew ....

Did they not have razors then! The women, the hair on their face! To quote our beloved baby-gays: Ewwwww!

R8 Actors who could play Rasputin: Michael Shannon, Christian Bale, Joaquin Phoenix, or Jeremy Sisto

Obvious Leto is a natural for Rasputin. The eyes and the monster cock.

*Svetlana*, not Svetlata.

R4 I agree, and only followed the link to say that there ain't a looker in the bunch. Can you imagine what that room smelled like?

LOL, R17, and the one woman has her face disturbingly close to the fiend's nether regions.

R15 but Jared Leto is a shit actor.

Whatever. Now who would be perfectly cast as Prince Yusupov, Rasputin's noble, cross-dressing assassin?

[quote] Now who would be perfectly cast as Prince Yusupov, Rasputin's noble, cross-dressing assassin?

Matthew Goode.

All the women look like they need to be stabled with some of Catherine's horses. Just to relax them.

"Killing Rasputin

Killing Rasputin The Old Fire Station Theatre, Oxford (1996) and The Bridewell Theatre, London (2002)

Written with Kit Hesketh-Harvey, and under the tutelage of Stephen Sondheim, this is the story of Prince Felix Yusupov, the man who planned – then carried out – the murder of the self-styled ‘holy man’ Grigor Rasputin in early 20th century Russia. Rasputin’s extraordinary ‘power’ to alleviate the symptoms of the haemophiliac heir to the Russian throne – Crown Prince Alexis – made him indispensable to the Tsar and Tsarina. However, with Rasputin’s increasing political power leading to a series of disastrous decisions, Yusupov decided to act. A Further production is planned for 2017"

Possible actors for Yusupov, who was 29 in 1916: Keir Gilchrist, Logan Lerman, Douglas Booth, Olly Alexander, Bill Skarsgård

Not one member of Imperial Family in the picture. Anna Virubova is there as mentioned before. Anna was a simpleton who understood very little of politics. She was very close and devoted to the Empress because she was simple and had no hidden motives.

Bill Skarsgård maybe.

Nicholas Hoult might be a good Prince Yusupov.

Perhaps, we should analyze this photo of Yegorov's Baths in St. Petersburg:

R4 I doubt it. Those people were probably part of high society. Rasputin was it guy because his close relations to the Imperial Family.

The guy on the far left looks evil. I just get a sense about him. Those eyes.

The only actor good and strong enough to play Rasputin is Daniel Day-Lewis.

R31 yes he'd be perfect.

The chick with the nose probably had advanced syphilis and lost her original one.

Haha, I was going to mention the cookie-smeller behind f mustache lady.

"The only actor good and strong enough to play Rasputin is Daniel Day-Lewis."

Well, he's a bit old now and getting older all the time, he's 63 and Rasputin died at 47.

Pity he didn't find a way to play the role when he was younger.

You can’t spell Rasputin without Putin.

New Year’s Eve in Times Square, 1942

Like my fedora?

[quote][R15] but Jared Leto is a shit actor.

Actually, he's a talented actor, which makes his behavior such a shame.

The only movie I really liked Jared Leto in was 'Alexander.'

Rasputin was hung. He was the original BDF.

Yes, Rasputin was legendarily hung, but during the 20th century that was rarely mentioned in the popular press.

I smell borscht!

Nothing says mystic like being surrounded by the bourgeoisie.

Why so many Rasputin threads lately?

Because he was hung, R44.

And interesting.