The Rasputin FileFrom 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. |
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User Review - Bricker - LibraryThingI expected this book to be more of a biograph of Rasputin, and it definitely had those elements, but to me felt more like an examination of the Russian royal family and where he fit in. It was ... Read full review
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User Review - ted_newell - LibraryThingFasci-nating. A great read by a Russian author who undoubtedly brings Russian sensitivities to his subject. No wonder the autocracy was toppled in 1917. The political setup was Obscurantism City. It's ... Read full review
Contents
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The Empres ss Alter Ego | 140 |
the Pensuits Salon III | 230 |
41 | 255 |
I0 The New Rasputin | 267 |
A Pyrrhic Victory ?II | 317 |
The Battle of the lntriguers | 362 |
I3 Farewell to the Tsars 3 | 405 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Rasputin File |
| Author | Edvard Radzinsky |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0307754669, 9780307754660 |
| Length | 576 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Historical History / Russia & the Former Soviet Union |
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