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Rasputin

By: Joseph T. Fuhrmann
Narrated by: Curtis Sisco
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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  • Includes many previously unpublished photos, including contemporary studio photographs of Rasputin and samples of his handwriting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.

©2013 Joe Fuhrmann (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
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An extraordinaire story for a quite normal man.

What did you like most about Rasputin?
I had just listened to a book about one of my favorite historical figures, Catherine the great of Russia, when in the end they mentioned Rasputin briefly. I had some ideas of the life of this man, and wanted to know more. This book debugs or explains many of the myths about him, the Russia of his age and what lay behind the strange relationship between the Rulers and the preacher. It is well written and read, however if you are looking for a book of sensationalism, of events extraordinaire and unworldly events, you might want to look elsewhere. This is an extraordinary story about an extraordinary man, but only because it is such a profoundly non supernatural life story. He just happened to be an original, a man that both by own (restless?) energy and coincidences ended up in the spotlights. It’s a story with both feet deep in the Russian earth and soul . Eventhough the participants might have believed themselves to have live in a time of miracles and dark magic.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Rasputin?
The way his murderers described the killing of Rasputin, believing in their own story of supernatural Survivability, this most likely added greatly to the later myth.

What three words best describe Curtis Sisco’s voice?
Low, soft and unenergetic

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