Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned

Author: Brian Moynahan

Condition: Very good

Hardcover

400 pages

Learn about Rasputin and the real story behind his legend in this illuminating biography book.

Lecherous, filthy and ambitious, the Siberian-born Grigory Rasputin achieved influence as a Russian Orthodox mystic and guru. Moynahan writes with authority about one of the last century's power brokers, whose influence he peddled everywhere.

In some ways Rasputin was saintly but he was also treacherous and profligate. Yet he would not have thrived without the devoted empress Alexandra. Though aristocratic conspirators attempted to stop Russia's wartime hemorrhaging by murdering Rasputin in December 1916, their gesture was ultimately useless, for revolution was imminent.

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