Rasputin and The End of Empire - Hardback

The first seriously critical reconstruction of what happened in the last tsar's court and how it serendipitously came to involve a wandering, amateur monk. Originally a bulging, six-hundred page volume under the title "The Political Influence of Rasputin," this work was only seen by scholars digging through university archives. Literary qualities in its narrative approach led Kilcoyne to abridge, edit, and retitle the material for a broader publication, but a series of setbacks and lack of ...