The Rasputin File - Hardcover

Radzinsky, Edvard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385489099 ISBN 13: 9780385489096

Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2000

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Based on documents long missing from KGB files, this fascinating account of Rasputin, a man who weilded unprecidented power over the last Czar of Russia, attempts to understand this enigmatic and charismatic figure.

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Edvard Radzinsky is the author of the bestselling The Last Tsar and Stalin, and one of Russia's most celebrated playwrights. He lives in Russia, where he is also an award-winning television personality.

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e of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the twentieth century, has remained cloaked in the myth of his own devising since his extraordinary ascent to power in the court of Nicholas and Alexandra, the last tsar and tsarina of Russia. Until now.

Edvard Radzinsky, the author of the international bestseller The Last Tsar, had long been frustrated by the meager explanations of the malign authority of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, a Russian peasant, semiliterate monk, and mystic, in the last Romanov court. Then, in 1995, a file from the State Archives that had been missing for years came up for auction at Sotheby's, and was put in Radzinsky's hands. It contained the interrogations of Rasputin's inner circle of admirers and those who kept him under police surveillance--documents never seen by any other historian. With this file, Radzinsky is able to transform the biography of Rasputin from mysterious legend into fact.

Using the depositions of Rasputin's fri

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0385489099
• ISBN 13: 9780385489096
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 524
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