Rasputin Category_YOUNG ADULT and home body

and home body

this book is (almost) as good as a trip across Asia

and one woman’s reputation could shatter overnight

grief and guilt make for a potent mix

indeed' NELSON DEMILLE

Rasputin Category_YOUNG ADULT and home body**Rasputin** by Douglas Smith is gripping narrative history that traces how a barely literate Siberian peasant became the most notorious figure at the heart of Imperial Russia. Part political biography, part study of power and paranoia, its a page turning look at the Romanov court on the eve of collapse. Smith follows Rasputin from obscure beginnings to his extraordinary access to Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra, examining how a self styled