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The Rasputin File

Written by: Edvard Radzinsky, Judson Rosengrant - translator
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
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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. Historical Politicians Politics & Activism Religious Russia Soviet Union Biography Imperialism Middle Ages
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What the critics say

“[G]ripping...a story almost Tolstoyan in its complexities and ironies.”–The New York Times Book Review

“[N]o reader can come away from [this] biography without a powerful impression of the charm and charisma of the semi-literate bearded peasant from Siberia.”–The Economist
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