A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. The spectre of the lustful Siberian holy man and peasant still casts its eerie shadow over Russia's bloody twentieth century. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and guardian of the ...
A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. The spectre of the lustful Siberian holy man and peasant still casts its eerie shadow over Russia's bloody twentieth century. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and guardian of the sickly heir to the throne. His debauchery and sinister political influence are the stuff of legend, and the downfall of the Romanov dynasty was laid at his feet. Even during his lifetime Rasputin was shrouded in myth and his true story remains obscure today.
Douglas Smith's Rasputin separates fact from fiction to reveal the true life of one of history's most alluring figures. Rasputin draws on a wealth of forgotten documents from archives in seven countries and is the most thoroughly researched biography ever written. Demolishing the caricature of the holy devil, Smith's account presents Rasputin in all his complexity - man of God, voice of peace, loyal subject, adulterer, drunkard. More than just the story of an extraordinary life, Rasputin offers a fascinating portrait of the twilight of Imperial Russia as it lurched towards catastrophe.
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Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator and the author of five books on Russia. His latest book, "Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy," was published in 2012. It was named a best book of the year by the Kansas City Star and Salon and won the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize. "Former People" is being published in ten foreign languages.
Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator and the author of five books on Russia. His latest book, "Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy," was published in 2012. It was named a best book of the year by the Kansas City Star and Salon and won the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize. "Former People" is being published in ten foreign languages.
Over the past thirty years Douglas Smith has made many trips to Russia. In the 1980s, he was a Russian-speaking guide on the U. S. State Department's exhibition "Information USA" that traveled throughout the USSR. He has worked as a Soviet affairs analyst at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, Germany specializing in Russian nationalism and served as an interpreter for late President Reagan.
Smith has taught and lectured widely in the United States, Britain, and Europe and has appeared in documentaries for A&E, National Geographic, and the BBC. He lives in Seattle.
His new book, "Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs," will be published in November 2016 to coincide with the centenary of the legendary Russian mystic's gruesome murder.
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