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Author : Mikhail Vladimirovich Rodzi︠a︡nko
Publisher : London, Philpot
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Reign of Rasputin: an Empire's Collapse written by Mikhail Vladimirovich Rodzi︠a︡nko and published by London, Philpot. This book was released on 1927 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Smith
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374711232
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Rasputin written by Douglas Smith and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and the guardian of the sickly heir to the Russian throne. His debauchery and sinister political influence are the stuff of legend, and the downfall of the Romanov dynasty was laid at his feet. But as the prizewinning historian Douglas Smith shows, the true story of Rasputin's life and death has remained shrouded in myth. A major new work that combines probing scholarship and powerful storytelling, Rasputin separates fact from fiction to reveal the real life of one of history's most alluring figures. Drawing on a wealth of forgotten documents from archives in seven countries, Smith presents Rasputin in all his complexity--man of God, voice of peace, loyal subject, adulterer, drunkard. Rasputin is not just a definitive biography of an extraordinary and legendary man but a fascinating portrait of the twilight of imperial Russia as it lurched toward catastrophe.
Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781979266482
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Grigori Rasputin written by Hourly History and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grigori Rasputin Rasputin began life as a peasant in the poorest reaches of Siberia and ended his life as the virtual second-in-command of Tsarist Russia. How did he achieve such a rapid change in fortunes? Was it through palace intrigue or magic and mind control? Or perhaps, the causes were a combination of hypnosis and haemophilia? The tsar's son Nicholas had been born with the dreaded "royal disease" otherwise known as the blood clotting deficiency named haemophilia. The slightest cut or scrape could be life-threatening for the young boy. The self-proclaimed healer managed to convince the royal family that he was the only way that their son would stay alive. With a role this vital, there was no way that Rasputin would be dropped from the imperial payroll anytime soon. Inside you will read about... - From Peasant Monk to Royal Holy Man - Rasputin's Miracle - Immoral Rumors - Rasputin's Banishment - Rasputin During World War I - The End of Rasputin's Reign And much more! Through intrigue, divine intervention, or perhaps just the sheer force of his personality, he forever cemented his place in Russian history. Read about the mad monk turned master minister-read about the astonishing rise and fall that comprised the life of Grigori Rasputin.
Author : Robert Alexander
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201339
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Rasputin's Daughter written by Robert Alexander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the national bestseller The Kitchen Boy comes a gripping historical novel about imperial Russia’s most notorious figure Called “brilliant” by USA Today, Robert Alexander’s historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once again conjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinary depth and suspense. In the wake of the Russian Revolution, Maria Rasputin—eldest of the Rasputin children—recounts her infamous father’s final days, building a breathless narrative of intrigue, excess, and conspiracy that reveals the shocking truth of her father’s end and the identity of those who arranged it. What emerges is a nail-biting, richly textured new take on one of history’s most legendary episodes.
Author : Kerwin C. Swint
Publisher : Union Square Press
ISBN 13 : 9781402772016
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The King Whisperers written by Kerwin C. Swint and published by Union Square Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to political cunning, manipulation, ambition, and furthering an agenda, the forty-seven behind-the-scenes players in these pages are the gold standard. An intriguing twist on the popular ôgreat leadersö view of history, this extraordinary book focuses on dominant advisors, counselors, officials, and other king whisperers, from biblical times to the twenty-first century. They represent some of the most effective speakers, writers, revolutionaries, ideologues, and villains in world history. Whether in control of battle fields, ballot boxes, or even entire empires, these influential people rose to positions of influence from the dark shadows and narrow corridors of power. Book jacket.
Author : Edvard Radzinsky
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307754669
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Rasputin File written by Edvard Radzinsky and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Joseph T. Fuhrmann
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1118239857
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Rasputin written by Joseph T. Fuhrmann and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kathryn Harrison
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812973771
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Enchantments written by Kathryn Harrison and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “Part love story, part history, this novel is a tour de force [told] in language that soars and sears.”—More St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live at the imperial palace with Tsar Nikolay and his family. Desperately hoping that Masha has inherited Rasputin’s healing powers, Tsarina Alexandra asks her to tend to her son, the headstrong prince Alyosha, who suffers from hemophilia. Soon after Masha arrives at the palace, the tsar is forced to abdicate, and the Bolsheviks place the royal family under house arrest. As Russia descends into civil war, Masha and Alyosha find solace in each other’s company. To escape the confinement of the palace, and to distract the prince from the pain she cannot heal, Masha tells him stories—some embellished and others entirely imagined—about Nikolay and Alexandra’s courtship, Rasputin’s exploits, and their wild and wonderful country, now on the brink of an irrevocable transformation. In the worlds of their imagination, the weak become strong, legend becomes fact, and a future that will never come to pass feels close at hand. Praise for Enchantments “A sumptuous, atmospheric account of the last days of the Romanovs from the perspective of Rasputin’s daughter, [told] with the sensuous, transporting prose that is Kathryn Harrison’s trademark.”—Jennifer Egan “[A] splendid and surprising book . . . Harrison has given us something enduring.”—The New York Times Book Review “[Harrison delivers] this oft-told moment with shocking freshness. . . . Masha re-invents our ideas of Rasputin, and the world of Nicholas and Alexandra is imbued with a glow whose fierceness is governed by the imminence of its loss.”—Los Angeles Times “A mesmerizing novel.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Bewitching . . . Harrison sets historic facts like jewels in this intricately fashioned work of exalted empathy and imagination, a literary Fabergé egg. . . . [A] dazzling return to historical fiction.”—Booklist (starred review) Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.
Author : David Milne
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429957034
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book America's Rasputin written by David Milne and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Milne's America's Rasputin provides the first major study of the man who pushed two presidents into Vietnam. Walt Rostow's meteoric rise to power—from Flatbush, Brooklyn, to the West Wing of the White House—seemed to capture the promise of the American dream. Hailing from humble origins, Rostow became an intellectual powerhouse: a professor of economic history at MIT and an influential foreign policy adviser to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Too influential, according to some. While Rostow inspired respect and affection, he also made some powerful enemies. Averell Harriman, one of America's most celebrated diplomats, described Rostow as "America's Rasputin" for the unsavory influence he exerted on presidential decision-making. Rostow was the first to advise Kennedy to send U.S. combat troops to South Vietnam and the first to recommend the bombing of North Vietnam. He framed a policy of military escalation, championed recklessly optimistic reporting, and then advised LBJ against pursuing a compromise peace with North Vietnam. David Milne examines one man's impact on the United States' worst-ever military defeat. It is a portrait of good intentions and fatal misjudgments. A true ideologue, Rostow believed that it is beholden upon the United States to democratize other nations and do "good," no matter what the cost. America's Rasputin explores the consequences of this idealistic but unyielding dogma.
Author : Douglas Smith
Publisher : Pan Books
ISBN 13 : 9781447245858
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Rasputin written by Douglas Smith and published by Pan Books. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZENearly a century after his murder, Rasputin remains as divisive a figure as ever. Was he really a horse thief and a hard-drinking ruffian in his youth? Was he a a devout Orthodox Christian, or was he in fact a just a fake holy man? Are the stories of his enormous sexual drive, debauchery, and drunken orgies true or simply a myth? How did he come to know the emperor and empress and to wield so much influence over them? What was the source of his healing power? Was Rasputin running the government in the final years of his life? And if so, was he acting on his own or on the orders of more powerful, hidden forces? Did Prince Yusupov and his fellow conspirators act alone or were they other parties involved in Rasputin's murder-British secret agents or even an underground cell of Freemasons, as has been claimed? And to what extent did Rasputin's murder doom the Romanov dynasty? Drawing on major new sources hitherto unexamined by western historians, Douglas Smith's book is be the definitive biography of this extraordinary figure for a generation.
Author : M. V. Rodzianko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781656102065
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Reign of Rasputin written by M. V. Rodzianko and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mikhail Vladimirovich Rodzianko (1859-1924) was a leading Russian statesman during the last years of the reign of Tsar Nicholas II. As President of the Duma, or Russian parliament, and a trusted adviser to the sovereign, he was one of the key political figures at the time of the revolution in 1917 and the downfall of the Romanovs. During the previous few years Grigori Rasputin, the mystic and self-proclaimed 'holy man', had taken advantage of his favoured position at the imperial court to exert undue influence, through Empress Alexandra, over government appointments and dismissals, making many enemies and adversely affecting the standing of the dynasty as military defeats in the war in Europe continued and conditions at home worsened. The 'reign' of Rasputin ended with his murder in 1917, and he had correctly prophesied that if anything happened to him, the empire would soon perish.Rodzianko's memoirs, first published in 1927, form an invaluable account of the final stages of the Romanov era.
Author : Greg King
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806519715
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Killed Rasputin written by Greg King and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Last Empress retraces the lives of the mysterious monk who ruled the royal family, and the second richest man in Imperial Russia that led to the winter night in 1916 when the latter murdered the former. He provides details of the crime pieced together, or at least proposed, from recently released information in the St. Petersburg police files. He also follows the young prince and princess in exile, social lions of the western capitals until the 1960s. Among the newly published photographs is one of the corpse. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Robert K. Massie
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307788474
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Nicholas and Alexandra written by Robert K. Massie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great “A moving, rich book . . . [This] revealing, densely documented account of the last Romanovs focuses not on the great events . . . but on the royal family and their evil nemesis. . . . The tale is so bizarre, no melodrama is equal to it.”—Newsweek In this commanding book, New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of the Russian empire to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history—the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.
Author : C. W. Gortner
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0425286177
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)
Download or read book The Romanov Empress written by C. W. Gortner and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish princess who became the mother of the last Russian tsar. “This epic tale is captivating and beautifully told.”—Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Barely nineteen, Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and enter into a royal marriage—as her older sister Alix has done, moving to England to wed Queen Victoria’s eldest son. The winds of fortune bring Minnie to Russia, where she marries the Romanov heir, Alexander, and once he ascends the throne, becomes empress. When resistance to his reign strikes at the heart of her family and the tsar sets out to crush all who oppose him, Minnie—now called Maria—must tread a perilous path of compromise in a country she has come to love. Her husband’s death leaves their son Nicholas as the inexperienced ruler of a deeply divided and crumbling empire. Determined to guide him to reforms that will bring Russia into the modern age, Maria faces implacable opposition from Nicholas’s strong-willed wife, Alexandra, whose fervor has led her into a disturbing relationship with a mystic named Rasputin. As the unstoppable wave of revolution rises anew to engulf Russia, Maria will face her most dangerous challenge and her greatest heartache. From the opulent palaces of St. Petersburg and the intrigue-laced salons of the aristocracy to the World War I battlefields and the bloodied countryside occupied by the Bolsheviks, C. W. Gortner sweeps us into the anarchic fall of an empire and the complex, bold heart of the woman who tried to save it. Praise for The Romanov Empress “Timely . . . [Gortner’s] ability to weave what reads as a simple tale from such complex historical and familial storylines is impressive. . . . Maria’s life as a royal reads like a historical soap opera.”—USA Today “Gortner, an experienced hand at recreating the unique aura of a particular time and place, will deftly sweep historical-fictions fans into this glamorous, turbulent, and ultimately tragic chapter in history.”—Booklist (starred review) “Mesmerizing . . . This insightful first-person account of the downfall of the Romanov rule . . . is the powerful story of a mother trying to save her family and an aristocrat fighting to maintain rule in a country of rebellion.”—Publishers Weekly “A twist on the tragic story you’ve heard many times before.”—Bustle
Author : Marc Ferro
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195093828
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Nicholas II written by Marc Ferro and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A figure surrounded by myth and speculation, at the center of one of history's most cataclysmic events--the Russian Revolution--Nicholas II remains haunting and enigmatic. Now one of France's most eminent historians presents a biography that goes beyond the lies and half-lies surrounding Nicholas's reign to provide an evocative portrait of this most mysterious ruler. Illustrations.
Author : Brandon Hodge
Publisher : Paizo Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781601254962
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Rasputin Must Die! written by Brandon Hodge and published by Paizo Incorporated. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for the Queen of Witches finally ends when the Dancing Hut travels to Baba Yaga's homeland of Russia on the planet Earth. The year is 1918, and the First World War rages throughout Europe. The heroes find themselves in the wilds of Siberia, where they must face Russian soldiers armed with 20th-century technology to infiltrate an ancient monastery and rescue Baba Yaga from her estranged son, Grigori Rasputin. Can the heroes kill the "Mad Monk," who has already cheated death once before, and free Baba Yaga, or will they too fall before the horrors of modern war? A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 13th-level characters, Rasputin Must Die! is continues the Reign of Winter Adventure Path, and includes details on the soul-harvesting worship of the daemonic Horseman of War, new rules for World War I-era weapons and equipment, and a new occult oracle mystery based on 20th century mysticism. Several new monsters in the Pathfinder Bestiary and author Kevin Andrew Murphy's new Pathfinder Journal novella rounds out this exciting volume of the Pathfinder Adventure Path.
Author : Edmund A. Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494097554
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (975 download)
Download or read book The Fall of the Russian Empire written by Edmund A. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
