The Rasputin File
by Edvard Radzinsky
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Author: Edvard RadzinskyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-12-04
ISBN: 0385489102
Number of pages: 526
Publisher: Anchor Books
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- Paperback in shades of brown and portrait of Rasputin
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Book Review: The best book on Rasputin so far!
Summary: 5 Stars
Radzinsky's book on Rasputin is the best so far! I have read at least ten books on Rasputin and the last tsar and this one is the most revealing thanks to the discovery of lost Rasputin file. Previous books have mostly focused on Rasputin as a charlatan but here we get a more balanced picture of the man, his religious beliefs and also his personal flaws. This is a very thorough examination of Rasputin from childhood to his role as a confidante to the empress, to the despicable murder. We learn that Yussopov's account of the murder is highly inaccurate to say the least! The myth of the saintly devil who could'nt be killed with potassium cyanide was just that - a myth. We also get a good insight into the correspondance of the tsar and tsaritsa concerning Rasputin as well as the reports of the secret police on Rasputin. After Rasputins murder there was an inquiery set up by the provisional government in march 1917. The transcripts of the interrogations has never been published in full. They resurfaced in 1994 and came into the hands of the author. These transcripts sheds a whole new light on the Rasputin story. This book may well be the final book on Rasputin, were he not such an enigma that more books are bound to follow...
Summary of The Rasputin File
From 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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