description: 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.
title: Rasputin: The Last Word
titlecomplete: Rasputin: The Last Word
characters: Grigori Rasputin
genres: Russian History, Russia, Historical, Biography, Politics, Romanovs, Russian Literature, Nonfiction, History, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 1669
places: Russian Federation