Name: Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs
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Author: Antony Beevor
ISBN: 9781399617628

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Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs

Type

Physical Book

Author

Antony Beevor

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Year

2026

Pages

384

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.00 x 15.60 cm

ISBN13

9781399617628

Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs

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Synopsis "Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs"

'THE GOLD STANDARD OF NARRATIVE HISTORY' - DAN SNOW

How could a barely literate peasant from Siberia determine the fate of the world? Undoubtedly, the so-called 'mad monk' Rasputin bewitched Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. Yet their strange and scandalous relationship conceals a riddle , one that casts an intriguing light on the controversial 'great man' theory of history.

Rasputin was a devoted monarchist, not a revolutionary. He had no official position, no forces at his command. Nevertheless, he contributed more to the fall of the Romanov dynasty than any other individual. So demoralised was the Tsarist officer corps by stories of corruption, to say nothing of the rumours of his debauchery with the Empress - and even her daughters - that when the February Revolution broke out, not a sword was raised in defence of the regime.

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?

Antony Beevor

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Educated at Winchester and Sandhurst, he was a regular officer in the British army, which he left after five years of service and moved to Paris, where he wrote his first novel

His essays, translated into more than thirty languages and published in Spanish by Crítica, have been awarded several prizes, especially Stalingrad (2000), recipient of the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize, and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 (2002), which has seen a dozen editions in Spanish

Other works include The Battle of Crete (2002), winner of the Runciman Prize, Paris After the Liberation (1944-1949) (2003), The Mystery of Olga Chekhova (2004), The Spanish Civil War (2005), A Writer at War: Vassily Grossman in the Russian Army, 1944-1945 (2006), and D-Day: The Battle of Normandy (2009)

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