Antony Beevor in Conversation – UEA Lecture Theatre 1

Join Sir Antony Beevor, renowned author and historian of war, as he discusses his career and latest book Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs as part of the Norwich History Festival.

His latest book explores the life of Grigori Rasputin, a barely literate peasant from Siberia who contributed more than any other individual to the fall of the Romanov dynasty. Rasputin’s legend bewitched historians, and more than a century later, we still fail to comprehend fully the collapse of the greatest autocracy on Earth. Was there any truth to the wild tales that brought down the empire? Or was his true legacy an unsettling lesson on the potency of myth?

Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad, searches for the truth about the great seducer of the Romanovs, the wild mystic who laid the ground for the Russian Revolution.

3pm