Author: Feliks Feliksovich I︠U︡supov (kni︠a︡zʹ)
Publisher: Helen Marx Books
ISBN: 9781885586582
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Rasputin's is one of the most famous deaths in history. Now, his assassin's thrilling memoir is finally back in print. Born to great riches in the days before the Russian Revolution, and married to the niece of Czar Nicholas II, Prince Felix Youssoupoff observed at close range the rampant corruption and intrigues of the imperial court, which culminated in the rise to power of the sinister monk Rasputin. In 1916, Prince Felix and several aristocratic cohorts killed Rasputin, which more than any other single event brought about the cataclysmic upheaval of Tsarist Russia.
Lost Splendor
Author: Feliks Feliksovich I︠U︡supov (kni︠a︡zʹ)
Publisher: Helen Marx Books
ISBN: 9781885586582
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Rasputin's is one of the most famous deaths in history. Now, his assassin's thrilling memoir is finally back in print. Born to great riches in the days before the Russian Revolution, and married to the niece of Czar Nicholas II, Prince Felix Youssoupoff observed at close range the rampant corruption and intrigues of the imperial court, which culminated in the rise to power of the sinister monk Rasputin. In 1916, Prince Felix and several aristocratic cohorts killed Rasputin, which more than any other single event brought about the cataclysmic upheaval of Tsarist Russia.
Publisher: Helen Marx Books
ISBN: 9781885586582
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Rasputin's is one of the most famous deaths in history. Now, his assassin's thrilling memoir is finally back in print. Born to great riches in the days before the Russian Revolution, and married to the niece of Czar Nicholas II, Prince Felix Youssoupoff observed at close range the rampant corruption and intrigues of the imperial court, which culminated in the rise to power of the sinister monk Rasputin. In 1916, Prince Felix and several aristocratic cohorts killed Rasputin, which more than any other single event brought about the cataclysmic upheaval of Tsarist Russia.
Prince Felix Yusupov
Author: Christopher Dobson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Biografi om prins Feliks Jusupov (1887-1967), der i 1916 myrdede Rasputin i St. Petersborg, og senere under revolutionen flygtede til Paris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Biografi om prins Feliks Jusupov (1887-1967), der i 1916 myrdede Rasputin i St. Petersborg, og senere under revolutionen flygtede til Paris
Lost Splendour and the Death of Rasputin
Author: Felix Yusupov
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956238757
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In this extraordinary memoir Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov recounts the early, heady days of the 20th century and his plot to kill the 'mad monk' Rasputin in gruesome, thrilling prose. After a glamorous life in England, partying with the rich and famous at Oxford and London he eventually returned to Russia where he married Princess Irina of Russia, the Tsar's only niece, only to realise that his beloved Russia was on the verge of catastrophe, blaming Rasputin for his disastrous influence on the Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina. On the night of 30th December 1916, Yusupov murdered Rasputin, an event relayed in chilling detail in these memoirs.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956238757
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In this extraordinary memoir Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov recounts the early, heady days of the 20th century and his plot to kill the 'mad monk' Rasputin in gruesome, thrilling prose. After a glamorous life in England, partying with the rich and famous at Oxford and London he eventually returned to Russia where he married Princess Irina of Russia, the Tsar's only niece, only to realise that his beloved Russia was on the verge of catastrophe, blaming Rasputin for his disastrous influence on the Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina. On the night of 30th December 1916, Yusupov murdered Rasputin, an event relayed in chilling detail in these memoirs.
Rasputin
Author: Feliks Feliksovich I︠U︡supov (kni︠a︡zʹ)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Man Who Killed Rasputin
Author: Greg King
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806519715
Category : Rasputin, Grigorii Efimovich, Ca. 1871-1916
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author of The Last Empress retraces the lives of the mysterious monk who ruled the royal family, and the second richest man in Imperial Russia that led to the winter night in 1916 when the latter murdered the former. He provides details of the crime pieced together, or at least proposed, from recently released information in the St. Petersburg police files. He also follows the young prince and princess in exile, social lions of the western capitals until the 1960s. Among the newly published photographs is one of the corpse. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806519715
Category : Rasputin, Grigorii Efimovich, Ca. 1871-1916
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author of The Last Empress retraces the lives of the mysterious monk who ruled the royal family, and the second richest man in Imperial Russia that led to the winter night in 1916 when the latter murdered the former. He provides details of the crime pieced together, or at least proposed, from recently released information in the St. Petersburg police files. He also follows the young prince and princess in exile, social lions of the western capitals until the 1960s. Among the newly published photographs is one of the corpse. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Rasputin
Author: Douglas Smith
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374711232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 849
Book Description
On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and the guardian of the sickly heir to the Russian throne. His debauchery and sinister political influence are the stuff of legend, and the downfall of the Romanov dynasty was laid at his feet. But as the prizewinning historian Douglas Smith shows, the true story of Rasputin's life and death has remained shrouded in myth. A major new work that combines probing scholarship and powerful storytelling, Rasputin separates fact from fiction to reveal the real life of one of history's most alluring figures. Drawing on a wealth of forgotten documents from archives in seven countries, Smith presents Rasputin in all his complexity--man of God, voice of peace, loyal subject, adulterer, drunkard. Rasputin is not just a definitive biography of an extraordinary and legendary man but a fascinating portrait of the twilight of imperial Russia as it lurched toward catastrophe.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374711232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 849
Book Description
On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and the guardian of the sickly heir to the Russian throne. His debauchery and sinister political influence are the stuff of legend, and the downfall of the Romanov dynasty was laid at his feet. But as the prizewinning historian Douglas Smith shows, the true story of Rasputin's life and death has remained shrouded in myth. A major new work that combines probing scholarship and powerful storytelling, Rasputin separates fact from fiction to reveal the real life of one of history's most alluring figures. Drawing on a wealth of forgotten documents from archives in seven countries, Smith presents Rasputin in all his complexity--man of God, voice of peace, loyal subject, adulterer, drunkard. Rasputin is not just a definitive biography of an extraordinary and legendary man but a fascinating portrait of the twilight of imperial Russia as it lurched toward catastrophe.
To Kill Rasputin
Author: Andrew Cook
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752472488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The murder of Rasputin on the night of 17 December 1916 has always seemed extraordinary: first he was poisoned, then shot and finally drowned in a frozen river by Russian aristocrats fearful of his influence on Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752472488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The murder of Rasputin on the night of 17 December 1916 has always seemed extraordinary: first he was poisoned, then shot and finally drowned in a frozen river by Russian aristocrats fearful of his influence on Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.
The Murder of Rasputin
Author: Greg King
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
On 16th December 1916 Rasputin visited the palace of the second-richest man in Russia, Prince Felix Youssoupov. Leading a group of conspirators, the Prince apparently set out to murder him. This account of Rasputin's death is based on material in recently released St Petersburg police files, including death photographs which are included in the book. It addresses topics such as the identity of the conspirators and their motives, whether Rasputin and Youssoupov were having a homosexual affair, and whether the prince castrated Rasputin.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
On 16th December 1916 Rasputin visited the palace of the second-richest man in Russia, Prince Felix Youssoupov. Leading a group of conspirators, the Prince apparently set out to murder him. This account of Rasputin's death is based on material in recently released St Petersburg police files, including death photographs which are included in the book. It addresses topics such as the identity of the conspirators and their motives, whether Rasputin and Youssoupov were having a homosexual affair, and whether the prince castrated Rasputin.
Beauty in Exile
Author: Aleksandr Vasilʹev
Publisher: Abradale Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This stylish volume illuminates as never before the pivotal Russian influence on 20th-century European & American culture & fashion.
Publisher: Abradale Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This stylish volume illuminates as never before the pivotal Russian influence on 20th-century European & American culture & fashion.
Houdini Vs. Rasputin
Author: C. Michael Forsyth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988478060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
While performing before Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the world's greatest escape artist Harry Houdini becomes pitted against a formidable foe: Rasputin. A powerful mystic, Rasputin has made puppets of the Tsar and his wife Alexandra. To save the nation from ruin, a small band of patriots recruits Houdini to expose the imperial "spiritual advisor" as a charlatan. Houdini wages an epic battle of wits and wills with the charismatic fiend. The American magician's daring and ingenuity are put to the test in an adventure that takes him from the grand palaces of St. Petersburg to the frigid wastelands of Siberia.Along the way, Houdini makes allies and enemies of a host of real-life figures, including the mischievous imp Princess Anastasia, the colossal former boxer and royal bodyguard Jim Hercules, the crossdressing conspirator Prince Yusupov and the sinister Black Sisters, practitioners of the occult who scheme to use Rasputin for their own ends. Meticulous research brings these people and the Russia of 1911 to life.Rasputin is one of history's most fascinating villains, at once a barely literate Siberian peasant and a Nietzschean superman, a Christ-figure to his followers and the Antichrist to his foes, a faith healer and a debaucher of enormous sexual appetites. He has at his disposal an army of goons, femme fatales, Gypsies, hypnotized assassins and fanatical members of the mysterious Khlysty cult.However, Rasputin's greatest strength is his own extraordinary personal magnetism. Gathered around him is a circle of female devotees known as the Little Ladies. To help Houdini bring Rasputin down, the magician's feisty wife Bess infiltrates this coven. She falls under Rasputin's spell and Harry must rescue her from his clutches.As in Houdini's movie serials, he escapes from one peril after another: buried alive under six feet of snow; trapped in a burning barn by Rasputin's henchmen; chained to a rack in the medieval torture chamber of Ivan the Terrible. The pace steadily accelerates until Harry's final confrontation with his nemesis on a frozen river. Houdini did in fact perform for the Tsar and Rasputin did arrive in the capital that same year. Many real events are incorporated into this work of fiction.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988478060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
While performing before Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the world's greatest escape artist Harry Houdini becomes pitted against a formidable foe: Rasputin. A powerful mystic, Rasputin has made puppets of the Tsar and his wife Alexandra. To save the nation from ruin, a small band of patriots recruits Houdini to expose the imperial "spiritual advisor" as a charlatan. Houdini wages an epic battle of wits and wills with the charismatic fiend. The American magician's daring and ingenuity are put to the test in an adventure that takes him from the grand palaces of St. Petersburg to the frigid wastelands of Siberia.Along the way, Houdini makes allies and enemies of a host of real-life figures, including the mischievous imp Princess Anastasia, the colossal former boxer and royal bodyguard Jim Hercules, the crossdressing conspirator Prince Yusupov and the sinister Black Sisters, practitioners of the occult who scheme to use Rasputin for their own ends. Meticulous research brings these people and the Russia of 1911 to life.Rasputin is one of history's most fascinating villains, at once a barely literate Siberian peasant and a Nietzschean superman, a Christ-figure to his followers and the Antichrist to his foes, a faith healer and a debaucher of enormous sexual appetites. He has at his disposal an army of goons, femme fatales, Gypsies, hypnotized assassins and fanatical members of the mysterious Khlysty cult.However, Rasputin's greatest strength is his own extraordinary personal magnetism. Gathered around him is a circle of female devotees known as the Little Ladies. To help Houdini bring Rasputin down, the magician's feisty wife Bess infiltrates this coven. She falls under Rasputin's spell and Harry must rescue her from his clutches.As in Houdini's movie serials, he escapes from one peril after another: buried alive under six feet of snow; trapped in a burning barn by Rasputin's henchmen; chained to a rack in the medieval torture chamber of Ivan the Terrible. The pace steadily accelerates until Harry's final confrontation with his nemesis on a frozen river. Houdini did in fact perform for the Tsar and Rasputin did arrive in the capital that same year. Many real events are incorporated into this work of fiction.