Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
Engaging ... It is hard to find anything new to say about Rasputin, but this story of credulous, out-of-touch monarchs steering their country into disaster never loses its sinister appeal.
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Beevor makes no claim to have uncovered any great revelations ... With his characteristically sharp eye for telling detail, extracts enough gems to decorate a whole Romanov party dress ... Despite the crowded historiographical field, Beevor finds a fresh angle. His thesis is that the myth was actually a key part of Rasputin’s political and ultimately historical impact ... An exceptionally well-sourced, morally serious and often darkly comic account.
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A fascinating, evidence-based biography that absorbs throughout ... This scrupulously researched book helps explain how a social-climbing, charismatic mystic from Siberia helped bring down one of the world’s oldest autocracies ... Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs, this readable and wonderfully informative biography, opens a window on to the fantasy world of the Russian royal couple and their delusion that a soothsayer from Siberia could ever be their salvation.
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