Book description
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- Includes many previously unpublished photos, including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.
JOSEPH T. FUHRMANN, Emeritus Professor of History at Murray
State University in Kentucky, received his PhD from Indiana
University, one of the leading centers for Russian studies. He
attended Moscow University from 1965 to 1966. His first biography of
Rasputin, Rasputin: A Life, was regarded as the best book on
the subject. Since gaining access to previously closed Soviet
archives, he has worked from 1991 in Russian repositories and studied
a host of unpublished documents. The first biography inspired
documentaries on A&E and the History Channel. He has appeared in
three programs as an interviewed guest and as script consultant for
two of them.
