Author: Rene Fulop-MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Rasputin the Holy Devil
Author: Rene Fulop-MillerRasputin
Author: Douglas SmithPublisher: Pan Books
ISBN: 9781447245858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZENearly a century after his murder, Rasputin remains as divisive a figure as ever. Was he really a horse thief and a hard-drinking ruffian in his youth? Was he a a devout Orthodox Christian, or was he in fact a just a fake holy man? Are the stories of his enormous sexual drive, debauchery, and drunken orgies true or simply a myth? How did he come to know the emperor and empress and to wield so much influence over them? What was the source of his healing power? Was Rasputin running the government in the final years of his life? And if so, was he acting on his own or on the orders of more powerful, hidden forces? Did Prince Yusupov and his fellow conspirators act alone or were they other parties involved in Rasputin's murder-British secret agents or even an underground cell of Freemasons, as has been claimed? And to what extent did Rasputin's murder doom the Romanov dynasty? Drawing on major new sources hitherto unexamined by western historians, Douglas Smith's book is be the definitive biography of this extraordinary figure for a generation.
Rasputin
Author: Douglas SmithPublisher: 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.
The Rasputin File
Author: Edvard RadzinskyPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307754669
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Stalin and The Last Tsar comes The Rasputin File, a remarkable biography of the mystical monk and bizarre philanderer whose role in the demise of the Romanovs and the start of the revolution can only now be fully known. For almost a century, historians could only speculate about the role Grigory Rasputin played in the downfall of tsarist Russia. But in 1995 a lost file from the State Archives turned up, a file that contained the complete interrogations of Rasputin’s inner circle. With this extensive and explicit amplification of the historical record, Edvard Radzinsky has written a definitive biography, reconstructing in full the fascinating life of an improbable holy man who changed the course of Russian history. Translated from the Russian by Judson Rosengrant.
The Fall of the Russian Empire
Author: Edmund A. WalshPublisher:
ISBN: 9781494097554
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
Rasputin, the Holy Devil
Author: René Fülöp-MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Rasputin, the Holy Devil
Author: René Fülöp-MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Rasputin
Author: René Fülöp-MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Rasputin's Daughter
Author: Robert AlexanderPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101201339
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
From the author of the national bestseller The Kitchen Boy comes a gripping historical novel about imperial Russia’s most notorious figure Called “brilliant” by USA Today, Robert Alexander’s historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once again conjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinary depth and suspense. In the wake of the Russian Revolution, Maria Rasputin—eldest of the Rasputin children—recounts her infamous father’s final days, building a breathless narrative of intrigue, excess, and conspiracy that reveals the shocking truth of her father’s end and the identity of those who arranged it. What emerges is a nail-biting, richly textured new take on one of history’s most legendary episodes.
The Mad Monk of Russia, Iliodor
Author: Ilīodor (Hieromonk.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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