Rasputin
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Rasputin

The Untold Story

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Rasputin

The Untold Story

About this book

Based on new sources—the definitive biography of Rasputin, with revelations about his life, death, and involvement with the Romanovs

A century after his death, Grigory Rasputin remains fascinating: the Russian peasant with hypnotic eyes who befriended Tsar Nicholas II and helped destroy the Russian Empire, but the truth about his strange life has never fully been told. Written by the world's leading authority on Rasputin, this new biography draws on previously closed Soviet archives to offer new information on Rasputin's relationship with Empress Alexandra, sensational revelations about his sexual conquests, a re-examination of his murder, and more.

  • Based on long-closed Soviet archives and the author's decades of research, encompassing sources ranging from baptismal records and forgotten police reports to notes written by Rasputin and personal letters
  • Reveals new information on Rasputin's family history and strange early life, religious beliefs, and multitudinous sexual adventures as well as his relationship with Empress Alexandra, ability to heal the haemophiliac tsarevich, and more
  • Includes many previously unpublished photos, including contemporary studio photographs of Rasputin and samples of his handwriting
  • Written by historian Joesph T. Fuhrmann, a Rasputin expert whose 1990 biography Rasputin: A Life was widely praised as the best on the subject

Synthesizing archival sources with published documents, memoirs, and other studies of Rasputin into a single, comprehensive work, Rasputin: The Untold Story will correct a century's worth of misconception and error about the life and death of the famous Siberian mystic and healer and the decline and fall of Imperial Russia.

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Information

Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781118172766
eBook ISBN
9781118239858
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Cast of Principal Characters, Places, and Terms
  8. Prologue
  9. Contents
  10. 1: The Outsider
  11. 2: Seeker and Teacher
  12. 3: Nicholas and Alexandra: Waiting for a Friend
  13. 4: The New Rasputin
  14. 5: The Church Strikes Back
  15. 6: The Romanovs’ Holy Fool
  16. 7: The Captain's Mysterious Report
  17. 8: Black Boars Become Bishops
  18. 9: “You Are Our All”
  19. 10: “God Has Heard Your Prayers!”
  20. 11: Spiritual Crisis
  21. 12: The Woman with the Missing Nose
  22. 13: Disaster Lurks in Moscow
  23. 14: The Tsar Takes Charge and Loses Control
  24. 15: Rasputin Conquers the Russian State
  25. 16: The Church at the Feet of a “Low Hound”
  26. 17: “Our Friend's Ideas about Men Are Sometimes Queer”
  27. 18: Shadows Come at Twilight
  28. 19: The Assassin
  29. 20: Murder at the Palace
  30. 21: The Aftermath
  31. 22: Who Really Killed Rasputin?
  32. Epilogue
  33. Notes
  34. Bibliography
  35. Photo Credits
  36. Index