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Rasputin The Downfall of the Romanovs
Beevor, Antony Editor: Viking USA Number of pages: 384 Dimensions: 160/236/32 Language: Anglais Article manque momentanément	ISBN: 8217061181 EAN: 9798217061181 OLF code: 10245652 Format: Livre Relié Publication date: 14/04/2026 Category: Histoire et Actualité	Price: 34.30 € Vat: 5.5% Add to basket

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From one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history’s most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the imperial household, contributed to the collapse of the greatest autocracy in the world When Russia''s Dowager Empress was pregnant with the future Tsar, she dreamed that a peasant would one day kill her son. The idea terrified her, and for the rest of her days she ''lived under the pressure of the prophecy''. Did the prophecy come true with the arrival at court of a mysterious, barely literate <moujhik <from Siberia, Grigori Rasputin? In this extraordinary portrait of an enigmatic character, Antony Beevor brings readers closer than ever before to Rasputin’s scandalous life and death. Though he had no official position at court, Rasputin’s hold over the Romanovs became the stuff of legend. Exaggerated accounts of political and financial corruption swirled around him, to say nothing of the stories of his debauchery with the Empress and even her daughters. The consequences of the rumor and conspiracy theories were devastating—when the February revolution broke out in 1917, hardly a sword was raised in the Tsar’s defense. Through extensive use of previously unpublished reports, interviews, and interrogations, Beevor shows the truth of Rasputin’s rampant lust and opportunism, victimization of poor and vulnerable women, and deep hypocrisy and corruption. Part political thriller, part gothic mystery, <Rasputin <is a fascinating story of human perversity.

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