Григорий Распутин

The book by the famous writer Alexei Varlamov is dedicated not just to one of the most mysterious and scandalous figures in Russian history. Rasputin is the key to understanding what happened to Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. What forces were behind Rasputin and who was against him? How was his relationship with the Church and was he a whip? Why did this particular person find himself at the epicenter of political and religious disputes, Duma scandals and grand-ducal espionage conspiracies?

What attracted writers and philosophers of the Silver Age to the “Siberian wanderer” - Rozanov, Berdyaev, Bulgakov, Blok, Bely, Gumilev, Akhmatov, Prishvin, Klyuev, Alexei Tolstoy? Was Rasputin a victim of a conspiracy of “dark forces” or its instrument?

How to explain the friendship of the Russian peasant with Jewish financial circles? Why did the passion-bearer Alexandra Fedorovna consider Rasputin her friend and did her sister, the Venerable Martyr Elizaveta Fedorovna, hate him?

What does the peasant killed in 1916 have to do with the failed attempts to liberate the Royal Family from Tobolsk captivity? What happened to the fate of his friends and enemies after the revolution? Why today do some demand the canonization of the “slandered old man”, while others rebel against this?

To date, this is the most complete biography of Rasputin, which uses enormous historical material, new documents, research and recently discovered evidence of contemporaries of that tragic era.