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Rasputin : the untold story / Joseph T. Fuhrmann.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2013.Description: xxvii, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1118172760 (cloth : acidfree paper)
  • 9781118172766 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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Contents:
Cast of Characters -- The Outsider -- Seeker and Teacher -- Nicholas and Alexandra : Waiting for a Friend -- The New Rasputin -- The Church Strikes Back -- The Romanovs' Holy Fool -- The Captain's Mysterious Report -- Black Boars Become Bishops -- "You Are Our All" -- "God Has Heard Your Prayers" -- Spiritual Crisis -- "The Slut Stuck a Knife Up My Ass!" -- Disaster Lurks in Moscow -- The Tsar Takes Command -- Rasputin Conquers the State -- The Church at the Feet of a "Low Hound" -- "Our Friend's Ideas About Men Are Sometimes Queer? -- Shadows Come at Twilight -- The Assassin -- Murder at the Palace -- The Aftermath -- Who Really Killed Rasputin? -- Epilogue.
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Based on new sources--the definitive biography of Rasputin, with revelations about his life, death, and involvement with the Romanovs

A century after his death, Grigory Rasputin remains fascinating: the Russian peasant with hypnotic eyes who befriended Tsar Nicholas II and helped destroy the Russian Empire, but the truth about his strange life has never fully been told. Written by the world's leading authority on Rasputin, this new biography draws on previously closed Soviet archives to offer new information on Rasputin's relationship with Empress Alexandra, sensational revelations about his sexual conquests, a re-examination of his murder, and more.

Based on long-closed Soviet archives and the author's decades of research, encompassing sources ranging from baptismal records and forgotten police reports to notes written by Rasputin and personal letters Reveals new information on Rasputin's family history and strange early life, religious beliefs, and multitudinous sexual adventures as well as his relationship with Empress Alexandra, ability to heal the haemophiliac tsarevich, and more Includes many previously unpublished photos, including contemporary studio photographs of Rasputin and samples of his handwriting Written by historian Joesph T. Fuhrmann, a Rasputin expert whose 1990 biography Rasputin: A Life was widely praised as the best on the subject

Synthesizing archival sources with published documents, memoirs, and other studies of Rasputin into a single, comprehensive work, Rasputin: The Untold Story will correct a century's worth of misconception and error about the life and death of the famous Siberian mystic and healer and the decline and fall of Imperial Russia.

"Published simultaneously in Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cast of Characters -- The Outsider -- Seeker and Teacher -- Nicholas and Alexandra : Waiting for a Friend -- The New Rasputin -- The Church Strikes Back -- The Romanovs' Holy Fool -- The Captain's Mysterious Report -- Black Boars Become Bishops -- "You Are Our All" -- "God Has Heard Your Prayers" -- Spiritual Crisis -- "The Slut Stuck a Knife Up My Ass!" -- Disaster Lurks in Moscow -- The Tsar Takes Command -- Rasputin Conquers the State -- The Church at the Feet of a "Low Hound" -- "Our Friend's Ideas About Men Are Sometimes Queer? -- Shadows Come at Twilight -- The Assassin -- Murder at the Palace -- The Aftermath -- Who Really Killed Rasputin? -- Epilogue.

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