Author : Heinz Liepman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Russia
ISBN : UOM:39015021878585
Rasputin, a New Judgment
Heinz Liepman
Rasputin A New Judgment
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Rasputin
Douglas Smith
Author : Douglas Smith
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374711238
Rasputin by Douglas Smith Pdf
On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and the guardian of the sickly heir to the Russian throne. His debauchery and sinister political influence are the stuff of legend, and the downfall of the Romanov dynasty was laid at his feet. But as the prizewinning historian Douglas Smith shows, the true story of Rasputin's life and death has remained shrouded in myth. A major new work that combines probing scholarship and powerful storytelling, Rasputin separates fact from fiction to reveal the real life of one of history's most alluring figures. Drawing on a wealth of forgotten documents from archives in seven countries, Smith presents Rasputin in all his complexity--man of God, voice of peace, loyal subject, adulterer, drunkard. Rasputin is not just a definitive biography of an extraordinary and legendary man but a fascinating portrait of the twilight of imperial Russia as it lurched toward catastrophe.
The Wordsworth Book of Urban Legend
Rodney Dale
Author : Rodney Dale
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Anecdotes
ISBN : 1840223030
The Wordsworth Book of Urban Legend by Rodney Dale Pdf
As a genre, the urban legend was recognised and named only in the mid-1970s. This book brings together a rich variety of these tales which continued to flourish and circulate, classified under different headings for ease of reference, and linked together by the author's narrative. Uncle Joe's ashes baked in a cake (Delicious!); Granny's corpse stolen along with the family car; sewers alive with alligators...all these alleged occurrences - and many, many others - are the stuff of urban legend: the extraordinary things that you're told happen to that elusive 'friend of a friend' (foaf); someone whom you can never pin down, however hard you try.
Rasputin's Daughter
Robert Alexander
Author : Robert Alexander
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101201336
Rasputin's Daughter by Robert Alexander Pdf
From the author of the national bestseller The Kitchen Boy comes a gripping historical novel about imperial Russia’s most notorious figure Called “brilliant” by USA Today, Robert Alexander’s historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once again conjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinary depth and suspense. In the wake of the Russian Revolution, Maria Rasputin—eldest of the Rasputin children—recounts her infamous father’s final days, building a breathless narrative of intrigue, excess, and conspiracy that reveals the shocking truth of her father’s end and the identity of those who arranged it. What emerges is a nail-biting, richly textured new take on one of history’s most legendary episodes.
Rasputin's Daughter
Robert Alexander
Author : Robert Alexander
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143038656
Rasputin's Daughter by Robert Alexander Pdf
From the author of the national bestseller The Kitchen Boy comes a gripping historical novel about imperial Russia’s most notorious figure Called “brilliant” by USA Today, Robert Alexander’s historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once again conjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinary depth and suspense. In the wake of the Russian Revolution, Maria Rasputin—eldest of the Rasputin children—recounts her infamous father’s final days, building a breathless narrative of intrigue, excess, and conspiracy that reveals the shocking truth of her father’s end and the identity of those who arranged it. What emerges is a nail-biting, richly textured new take on one of history’s most legendary episodes.
ESP and Hypnosis
Susy Smith
Author : Susy Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781583488478
ESP and Hypnosis by Susy Smith Pdf
Susy Smith, internationally known author of twenty-one books on parapsychology and the occult, traces the fascinting, many-faceted history of hypnosis—from its shady origins to its present status of quasi-respectability and its promising future as a tool for producing Extrasensory Perception. In this book you will read about astonishing cases of hypnosis and the people who practice it. The report of the California doctor who used hypnosis as the sole anesthetic in heart surgery on two teenagers . . . The frightening story of a group of amateur hypnotists who placed a young girl in a trance so deep that she lost the use of English and began to speak in a strange, unknown language. The resulting loss of communication made it impossible for the hypnotists to bring the subject out of her trance . . . The staggering implications of statistics—which show that many hypnotic trances lead to communication with the dead . . . The Soviet professor who conducted long-distance telepathic hypnosis tests designed to make telepathy useful for the Russian cosmonauts . . . Be sure to visit the Afterlife Codes website of the Susy Smith Project at www.afterlifecodes.com.
Rasputin's Shadow
Raymond Khoury
Author : Raymond Khoury
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698138315
Rasputin's Shadow by Raymond Khoury Pdf
Raymond Khoury, the international bestselling author of The Last Templar, is back with another ingenious, fast-paced thriller that straddles present-day NYC and Russia in the early 1900s—the time of the infamous Rasputin and his mysterious rise to power. FBI special agent Sean Reilly is tasked with a delicate case. A Russian diplomat seems to have committed suicide by jumping out of a sixth-floor window in Queens, New York. The apartment’s owners are missing, while a faceless killer known only as Koschey—“the Deathless”—is roaming the city and leaving a trail of death in his wake. Joined by Russian FSB agent Larisa Tchoumitcheva, Reilly’s investigation soon uncovers a deadly, desperate search for a mysterious device whose origins reach back in time to the darkest days of the Cold War and to Imperial Russia. A device that, in the wrong hands, could have a devastating impact on our world. Packed with the twists and suspense, the impeccable historical research, and the present and past story lines that Khoury’s fans have come to expect, Rasputin’s Shadow will keep readers turning pages long into the night.
Rasputin
Joseph T. Fuhrmann
Author : Joseph T. Fuhrmann
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781118239858
Rasputin by Joseph T. Fuhrmann Pdf
Based on new sources—the definitive biography of Rasputin, with revelations about his life, death, and involvement with the Romanovs A century after his death, Grigory Rasputin remains fascinating: the Russian peasant with hypnotic eyes who befriended Tsar Nicholas II and helped destroy the Russian Empire, but the truth about his strange life has never fully been told. Written by the world's leading authority on Rasputin, this new biography draws on previously closed Soviet archives to offer new information on Rasputin's relationship with Empress Alexandra, sensational revelations about his sexual conquests, a re-examination of his murder, and more. Based on long-closed Soviet archives and the author's decades of research, encompassing sources ranging from baptismal records and forgotten police reports to notes written by Rasputin and personal letters Reveals new information on Rasputin's family history and strange early life, religious beliefs, and multitudinous sexual adventures as well as his relationship with Empress Alexandra, ability to heal the haemophiliac tsarevich, and more Includes many previously unpublished photos, including contemporary studio photographs of Rasputin and samples of his handwriting Written by historian Joesph T. Fuhrmann, a Rasputin expert whose 1990 biography Rasputin: A Life was widely praised as the best on the subject Synthesizing archival sources with published documents, memoirs, and other studies of Rasputin into a single, comprehensive work, Rasputin: The Untold Story will correct a century's worth of misconception and error about the life and death of the famous Siberian mystic and healer and the decline and fall of Imperial Russia.
Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs
Colin Wilson
Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Russia
ISBN : UOM:39015010857632
Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs by Colin Wilson Pdf
Rasputin's Revenge
John Lescroart
Author : John Lescroart
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101554838
Rasputin's Revenge by John Lescroart Pdf
Auguste Lupa, reputed son of Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective of all time—and possessor of a brilliant deductive mind in his own right—is summoned to the court of the Czar. There, with a bit of assistance from none other than Holmes and Watson, he untangles a chilling plot that holds the Winter Palace in a lethal grip…Don't miss this historical mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of the Dismas Hardy series. "It was good to have Holmes and Watson drop in on the action...There's a lot of Sherlock in his son."—Abilene Reporter-News "The perfect vehicle for mystery fans who relish a good detective story.” —Macon Telegraph and News Praise for John Lescroart's Dismas Hardy novels "Today’s best legal thriller series.”—Lee Child “Grisham and Turow remain the two best-known writers in the genre. There is, however, a third novelist at work today who deserves to be considered alongside Turow and Grisham. His name is John Lescroart.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Lescroart's books are high entertainment, with accurate legal and police procedures leading the action.”—Sacramento Bee “A gifted writer….I read him with great pleasure.”—Richard North Patterson “Blistering courtroom sequences.…the undisputed king of the legal thriller.”—Providence Sunday Journal “Unfolds like a classic Law & Order.”—Entertainment Weekly John Lescroart is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous legal thrillers and mysteries, most of them set in contemporary San Francisco. Among his novels are The Fall, The Keeper, The Ophelia Cut, The Hunt Club, The Second Chair, The First Law, Nothing But the Truth, and Dead Irish, as well as two novels featuring Auguste Lupa, the reputed son of Sherlock Holmes.
The Rasputin File
Edvard Radzinsky
Author : Edvard Radzinsky
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307754660
The Rasputin File by Edvard Radzinsky Pdf
From the bestselling author of Stalin and The Last Tsar comes The Rasputin File, a remarkable biography of the mystical monk and bizarre philanderer whose role in the demise of the Romanovs and the start of the revolution can only now be fully known. For almost a century, historians could only speculate about the role Grigory Rasputin played in the downfall of tsarist Russia. But in 1995 a lost file from the State Archives turned up, a file that contained the complete interrogations of Rasputin’s inner circle. With this extensive and explicit amplification of the historical record, Edvard Radzinsky has written a definitive biography, reconstructing in full the fascinating life of an improbable holy man who changed the course of Russian history. Translated from the Russian by Judson Rosengrant.
Killing Rasputin
Margarita Nelipa
Author : Margarita Nelipa
Publisher : WildBlue Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781942266655
Killing Rasputin by Margarita Nelipa Pdf
A look into the life of the so-called “Mad Monk” of Imperial Russia, his murder, and the effects of his death on a dynasty, a people, and a country. Written in three parts, Killing Rasputin begins with a biography that describes how a simple unkempt “holy man” from the wilds of Siberia became a friend of Emperor Nicholas II and his empress, Alexandra, at the most crucial moment in Russian history. Part Two examines the infamous murder of Rasputin through the lens of a “cold case” homicide investigation. And lastly, the book considers the connection between a cold-blooded assassination and the revolution that followed; a revolution that led to civil war and the rise of the Soviet Union. Unique about this book on Rasputin, is that the author combines Russian heritage (her parents were forced out of Russia during World War II and arrived as refugees in Australia in 1948) with medical science and legal training. Nelipa relied on Russian-language sources that she translated rather than depend on the interpretations of others. Her primary sources include police documents and witness testimonies, an autopsy report, diaries, letters and memoirs written in their native language by the participants in these historic events. Secondary sources include Russian-languages newspapers and other publications from that era. The narrative is copiously referenced and augmented with photographs (including graphic forensic photographs) and other documents, some of them published here for the first time. Step into the imperial court of a 300-year-old dynasty in its final days with one of the most fascinating characters ever to grab our imaginations, judge whether Margarita Nelipa makes her case regarding his death, and if you agree that it was “the murder that ended the Russian empire.” Praise for Killing Rasputin “You can almost hear the whispering conspiracies and intrigues in the court of Nicholas and Alexandra. . . . A dramatic history with a touch of true crime.” —Steve Jackson, New York Times–bestselling author of Bogeyman
Rasputin
Brian Moynahan
Author : Brian Moynahan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307826466
Rasputin by Brian Moynahan Pdf
Grigory Efimovich Rasputin came to St. Petersburg from his Siberian cabin in 1903 like a projectile from the medieval past, tattered, black-clad, muttering. By the time he was murdered thirteen years later, the peasant was the "beloved" Friend of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra and the sponsor of the most powerful officials in Russia. He had become, a society lady wrote, "a dusk enveloping all our world, eclipsing the sun. How could so pitiful a wretch throw so vast a shadow? It was inexplicable, maddening, almost incredible. " Rasputin's name has become synonymous with evil, but his legend has obscured the facts of his life. In this evocative biography, Brian Moynahan presents us with a flesh-and-blood Rasputin, more fascinating than the myth--a man in whom debauchery coexisted beside a real (if erratic) spiritual sense, a man whose coarseness hid a savvy awareness of human psychology. Drawing on confidential police reports, cabinet meeting memos, and other documents, some available only since the fall of the Soviet Union, Moynahan sheds new light on Rasputin's life and disputes some of the widely held details of his death. The young Rasputin was a drinker, thief, and womanizer. He claimed to have religious visions and became a wandering holy man, preaching that exposure to sin could drive out sin. He stormed the fashionable salons of St. Petersburg, and in 1905 he met Nicholas and Alexandra, who, increasingly despised by the sophisticated, found in Rasputin reassurance that the "real Russia, the simple and pious peasantry, loved them. Rasputin's mysterious ability to stop the bleeding attacks of their hemophiliac only son, Alexis, sealed the approval of the domineering Alexandra. With royal patronage, Rasputin became increasingly reckless, partying with prostitutes, peddling influence, plotting the disgrace of those who crossed him. Ever contradictory, he was also a devoted family man, a defender of the poor, and a figure of immense charisma. As Germany battered Russia during World War I, as Nicholas's ineptitude as a leader became ever more rampant and the masses went hungry, Rasputin seemed to monarchists to be the cause, and not just the symptom, of corrupt government. A group of conspirators gathered--among them a grand duke and a scion of the richest family in Russia--and one of the most famous murders in history was planned. Set against the vivid backdrop of prerevolutionary Russia, Rasputin is a portrait of an age as well as of a man. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
To Kill Rasputin
Andrew Cook
Author : Andrew Cook
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752472485
To Kill Rasputin by Andrew Cook Pdf
The murder of Rasputin on the night of 17 December 1916 has always seemed extraordinary: first he was poisoned, then shot and finally drowned in a frozen river by Russian aristocrats fearful of his influence on Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.
Rasputin's Secret
Kenneth A. Mertz, Jr.
Author : Kenneth A. Mertz, Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781467068130
Rasputin's Secret by Kenneth A. Mertz, Jr. Pdf
Stolen nuclear missiles that will cause the destruction of the Sovietgovernment and open the door that will allow Rasputin's Secret to emerge. The secrets lie in Faberge' Eggs, finding them is only the beginning. Rasputin's Secret begins with the asassination of the last Tzar of Russia and doesn't stop, even when an American Submarine is lost in the Atlantic Ocean, a fantastic car races ahead of pursuing mercenaries, or when there is a supersonic dogfight in Soviet airspace. What is Rasputin's Secret and what will happen to the world when it is revealed?