Rasputin: The Untold Story by Joseph T. Fuhrmann

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Legend portrays Russia’s Rasputin as the “Mad Monk” who rampaged through St. Petersburg in an alcoholic haze, making love to scores of women. A symbol of excess and religious extremism, he was believed to hold a mysterious power, emanating from his hypnotic eyes, over Tsar Nicolas II and his family. The fact that he was neither mad nor a monk has not stopped scores of writers from repeating these and other bogus claims.

In Rasputin: The Untold Story, Rasputin scholar Joseph Fuhrmann shares the fruits of his two-decade search for the truth about Rasputin through previously closed Soviet archives. The man he discovers is entirely human and even more fascinating than the Svengali-like caricature imagined by millions.

This definitive biography unveils the truth behind Gregory Rasputin’s storied life, controversial relationships, and much-discussed death. Fuhrmann unearths previously unknown details from Rasputin’s childhood and his early years as a farmer and itinerant preacher to his decade-long relationship with the Romanovs.