Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned

Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned
by Brian Moynahan

Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned
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Author: Brian Moynahan
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-12-24
ISBN: 0306809303
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Da Capo Press
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  • ISBN13: 9780306809309
  • Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned

Book Review: Rasputin and the fall of the House of Romanov
Summary: 5 Stars

A beautifully written book, the characters in this vivid drama of tsarist Russia under Nicholas II and Alexandra come alive and are fleshed out. Rasputin, in spite of his lechery, drunkeness,and exhibtionism was charming with children, including the hemophiliac tsarevitch Alexis (usually called Alexei) For the first time ever, I felt a twinge of pity for Rasputin. The tsar and tsarina come to life too. Though decent in private, in his public affairs Nicholas was deceitful, vascillating, and jealous and Alexandra was a virago who wore the pants in the family, meddled in public affairs and lead her husband around by an invisible ring in his nose. Together they progressed from one dreadful mistake to the next. They governed Russia with stupidity, isolated as they were from the Russian people.They were almost surreal, tucked away in their sweltering cocoon.

This book is superb. It is a page-turner. You will become so immersed in the lives of the Russian people at the turn of the last century that you'll forget where you are. And you will discover that Rasputin, dispite his monstrous faults, is very human.

Summary of Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned

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.

British journalist and historian Brian Moynahan does not spare details of the lechery and drunkenness that Rasputin brought with him on his journey from the squalor of rural Siberia to St. Petersburg, where he captivated the tsar and tsarina with his mysterious ability to ease their hemophiliac son's hemorrhages. Yet Moynahan also credits "the mad monk" with intelligence, generosity, even a weird spirituality. In elegant prose, he retells with panache the saga of an illiterate peasant's rise to a position of fearsome power in the waning days of the Russian monarchy.

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