Rasputin: The Last Word - Edvard Radzinsky

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Summary: From the unpublished archives of the Extraordinary Commission of 1917, revealed here for the first time, to secret police reports, classified justice investigations, unsuspected intimate correspondence, confessions, and sealed testimonies, finally exhumed and unveiled, here, restored to history, is Grigori Efimovitch Rasputin, an illiterate peasant, false monk and true mystic, healer and debaucher, confessor to the imperial family and gravedigger of the throne of all the Russias.

A chronicle that recounts, from within, a unique destiny. A hallucinatory day-by-day account of the grandeur and misery of the last tsars. An enchanting gallery where plotting grand dukes and cross-dressing princes, enlightened pilgrims and suburban prostitutes, shady bankers and fanatical politicians collide. A fabulous opera set against the backdrop of the Siberian steppes, the canals of St. Petersburg, and the golden domes of the Kremlin.

Who was Rasputin, in fact? What was his religious, political, and sexual odyssey at court and in the capital? Who was he really to the Tsarina, and who was his true murderer? By establishing the ultimate truth, with supporting evidence, Edvard Radzinsky resurrects an entire world, that of the eternal Russian enigma.

Genre: Biography, History

Publisher: JC Lattès

Format: Paperback

Publication date: 2000

Number of pages: 609

ISBN: 9782709621687