5x15:
Antony Beevor on Rasputin

A special event with Britain’s foremost historian of war and no.1 bestselling author of Stalingrad. We’re excited to bring back 5×15 Specials: solo evenings with remarkable voices who change how we see the world.

Join 5×15 in March to hear Antony Beevor live at Conway Hall, where he will deliver a thrilling and insightful talk about one of history’s most destructive masterminds.

Grigori Rasputin, the wild mystic who seduced the Romanovs and laid the ground for the Russian revolution, has been a figure of endless fascination. Was he a visionary, a fraud, or a victim of history?

In his extraordinary new work, Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs, Antony Beevor pierces through the fog of fantasy to discover the real Rasputin. The result is a masterful account of how a barely literate moujhik from Siberia, with no official position, contributed more than any other individual to the collapse of the greatest autocracy in the world.

Antony Beevor is the author of thirteen works of non-fiction, including Crete (1991), which was awarded a Runciman Prize; Stalingrad (1998), which won the first Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature; and D-Day (2009), which received the Prix Henry Malherbe in France and the Westminster Medal, and was a no.1 bestseller in seven countries. He has received honorary doctorates and fellowships from five universities and was knighted in 2017.

5×15. Where great stories are told live.

Age Recommendation:

16+

Price:

*A £2 venue levy is applied to each ticket purchased. This levy helps to support us in covering the costs of keeping our grade II listed building running and our doors open.*

Early Bird £30 • Early Bird + Book £45   (+£2 venue levy)
Standard £40 • Standard + Book £55  (+£2 venue levy)

Access Information

This event is in the Main Hall, which is located on the ground floor.

All the ground-floor rooms are fully accessible by wheelchair. Main Hall (street access, step-free), Brockway Room (street access, step-free), Bertrand Russell Room (street access, shallow ramp), Cafe (street access, step-free). There is also an accessible toilet on the ground floor opposite the Brockway Room.