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'Our Friend' |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Lee Congdon |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 1,888 Words, 11,489 Characters |
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RASPUTIN
The Saint Who Sinned
Brian Moynahan
New York: Random House, 1997
400 pp., $30.00
Hear the name Rasputin and you think immediately of a sinister figure, a devil, even the Antichrist. You may recall nothing more than a haunting photo of a man with long hair, straggly beard, and eyes that seemed to gaze into your soul. But you might know him as the Svengali who, by mesmerizing Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra, brought about the moral and political ruin of czarist Russia. That, certainly, was the way in which his enemies portrayed him, both in the years leading up to his assassination in 1916 and in those following the revolutions of 1917. Because the second uprising--in reality, a coup d'état--brought Lenin and the Bolsheviks to power, Rasputin could even be...
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...o years. They will be killed by the Russian people."
Those words proved to be prophetic. Yusupov had married the czar's niece and one of his accomplices, the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, was the czar's cousin. Both were to survive the Bolshevik Revolution, but on July 16, 1918, hate-filled revolutionaries carried out Lenin's order to murder the czar, his wife, and all five of his children.
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