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Acclaimed historian Douglas Smith's riveting - and revisionist - biography of Rasputin
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE
Nearly 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$643 Was he a a devout Orthodox Christian, or was he in fact a just a fake holy man$644 Are the stories of his enormous sexual drive, debauchery, and drunken orgies true or simply a myth$645 How did he come to know the emperor and empress and to wield so much influence over them$646 What was the source of his healing power$647 Was Rasputin running the government in the final years of his life$648 And if so, was he acting on his own or on the orders of more powerful, hidden forces$649 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$650 And to what extent did Rasputin's murder doom the Romanov dynasty$651 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.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE
Nearly 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$643 Was he a a devout Orthodox Christian, or was he in fact a just a fake holy man$644 Are the stories of his enormous sexual drive, debauchery, and drunken orgies true or simply a myth$645 How did he come to know the emperor and empress and to wield so much influence over them$646 What was the source of his healing power$647 Was Rasputin running the government in the final years of his life$648 And if so, was he acting on his own or on the orders of more powerful, hidden forces$649 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$650 And to what extent did Rasputin's murder doom the Romanov dynasty$651 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.
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