Rasputin

It’s amazing how contradicting are the stories told about Rasputin when you hear them from different people. This is the second book I read in sequence about that era in Russian history and the accounts of Rasputin told from his daughter Maria are very different from the ones told from Pierre Gillia......more

This was an impulse buy made at my local used bookshop. How could I not pick it up? There are few historic figures with as much swagger, and who are as steeped in mystique and myth, as Grigori Rasputin. This Russian mystic has been fictionalized as a villain by Disney and in the “Hell Boy” universe.......more

I find that I learn more from personal accounts much better than material written by historians. I do believe that maria Rasputin held her father in a favored light but it was enlightening to read about such a demonized figure from a positive aspect. Many of the details offered more insight to under......more

Plot 4/5 Generally speaking, I feel like the plot is well structured. Maria does a good job of relaying all aspects of her Father's life from beginning to end, with a smooth natural flow. I never had to wonder how we got from Point A to Point B. Though the pacing felt a little slow in some places. Pa......more

Intriguing This book was the first one I´ve read in the life of Rasputin. Very fascinating and full of mystery and suspense. Not many people got too much power in the last years of the Czars like him. Gregory Rasputin was and even he´s a controversial character in the last years of Russian royal family......more