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9781118172766

Rasputin : The Untold Story

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    9781118172766

  • ISBN10:

    1118172760

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-10-30
  • Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

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his relationship with Empress Alexandra, ability to heal the haemophiliac tsarevich, and more Includes many previously unpublished photos, including contemporary studio photographs of Rasputin and samples of his handwriting Written by historian Joesph T. Fuhrmann, a Rasputin expert whose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.

Author Biography

JOSEPH T. FUHRMANN, Emeritus Professor of History at Murray State University in Kentucky, received his PhD from Indiana University, one of the leading centers for Russian studies. He attended Moscow University from 1965 to 1966. His first biography of Rasputin, Rasputin: A Life, was regarded as the best book on the subject. Since gaining access to previously closed Soviet archives, he has worked from 1991 in Russian repositories and studied a host of unpublished documents. The first biography inspired documentaries on A&E and the History Channel. He has appeared in three programs as an interviewed guest and as script consultant for two of them.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

Cast of Principal Characters, Places, and Terms xix

Prologue 1

1 The Outsider 3

2 Seeker and Teacher 15

3 Nicholas and Alexandra: Waiting for a Friend 31

4 The New Rasputin 39

5 The Church Strikes Back 49

6 The Romanovs’ Holy Fool 57

7 The Captain’s Mysterious Report 67

8 Black Boars Become Bishops 77

9 “You Are Our All” 87

10 “God Has Heard Your Prayers!” 97

11 Spiritual Crisis 107

12 The Woman with the Missing Nose 117

13 Disaster Lurks in Moscow 131

14 The Tsar Takes Charge and Loses Control 143

15 Rasputin Conquers the Russian State 155

16 The Church at the Feet of a “Low Hound” 167

17 “Our Friend’s Ideas about Men Are Sometimes Queer” 177

18 Shadows Come at Twilight 185

19 The Assassin 197

20 Murder at the Palace 207

21 The Aftermath 215

22 Who Really Killed Rasputin? 225

E pilogue 233

Notes 241

Bibliography 263

Photo Credits 271

Index 273

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