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Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned

Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned

Moynahan, Brian

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHistorical Figures

ISBN10: 0306809303
ISBN13: 9780306809309
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: Dec 1 1999
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.96 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin--drinker, thief, womanizer--arrived in St. Petersburg in 1903 as if from the medieval past . . . tattered, black-clad, muttering. By the time of his sensational murder thirteen years later, the peasant was the beloved Friend of Czar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra, with a seemingly supernatural power to stop the bleeding attacks of their hemophiliac son, Alexis. How could it have happened? As on society lady of the time asked, How could so pitiful a wretch throw so vast a shadow?Drawing on confidential police reports, cabinet meeting memos, and many documents only now available, Moynahan sheds new light on Rasputin's life and disputes some of the widely held details of his death. The Washington Post Book World called the book balanced and well-researched hailed its shrewd analysis of the ways in which Rasputin's manipulative abilities meshed with the emotional needs of isolated, superstitious members of czarist aristocracy. It is an unforgettable portrait of an age as well as of a man.

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