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: Publication Date: October 30, 2012
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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.
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: 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: Includes many previously unpublished photos,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.
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: http://www.amazon.com/Rasputin-Untold-Joseph-T-Fuhrmann/dp/1118172760
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