Description
- Author: Edvard Radzinsky
- Title: The Rasputin File
- Translator: Judson Rosengrant
- Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York
- Year: April 2000
- Edition: First American edition, first printing
- Format: Hardcover with black boards, burgundy spine, and gilt lettering
- Pages: 524
- ISBN: 9780385489096
Description
How did a Siberian religious wanderer become a trusted figure within Russia’s imperial household? In The Rasputin File, Edvard Radzinsky examines Grigory Rasputin’s rise, his relationship with Nicholas II and Alexandra, and the suspicions surrounding his influence over the Romanov court.
Drawing on testimony gathered during the investigation into Rasputin after the fall of the monarchy, Radzinsky reconstructs a world of spiritual devotion, political maneuvering, and competing personal accounts. He revisits Rasputin’s murder and considers how the stories surrounding him became entangled with the collapse of imperial Russia.
Radzinsky, also the author of The Last Tsar and Stalin, brings a dramatist’s sense of narrative to this biography. Translated from the Russian by Judson Rosengrant, this copy is the first American edition, first printing.