Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs - Antony Beevor

How could a barely literate peasant from Siberia determine the fate of the world? Just as Rasputin cast a spell over the Romanovs, his legend has bewitched historians. More than a century later, we still fail to comprehend fully the collapse of the greatest autocracy on Earth. Was there any truth to the wild tales that brought down the empire? Or was his true legacy an unsettling lesson on the potency of myth? From the bestselling author of Stalingrad comes a fascinating and deeply insightful historical post-mortem.

Binding: Hardback
Pages: 384