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乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 蹖讴 丿賴賯丕賳 亘蹖 爻賵丕丿 爻蹖亘乇蹖丕蹖蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 丿乇 趩賳丿 爻丕賱 倬丕蹖丕賳蹖 毓賲乇卮貙 鬲賵丕賳爻鬲 賳賮賵匕 亘爻蹖丕乇蹖 乇賵蹖 丌禺乇蹖賳 鬲夭丕乇 賵 賲賱讴賴 乇賵爻蹖賴 丕毓賲丕賱 讴賳丿. 夭賳丿诏蹖 丕蹖賳 賲乇丿 毓蹖丕卮 丕賲丕 亘爻蹖丕乇 倬乇 乇賲夭 賵 乇丕夭貙 鬲丕孬蹖乇 亘賴 爻夭丕蹖蹖 丿乇 爻賯賵胤 丕賲倬乇丕胤賵乇蹖 乇賵爻蹖賴 賵 乇賵蹖 讴丕乇 丌賲丿賳 亘賱卮賵蹖讴 賴丕 丿丕卮鬲 鬲丕 丌賳噩丕 讴賴 诏賮鬲賴 丕賳丿 亘丿賵賳 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳貙 賱賳蹖賳蹖 丿乇 讴丕乇 賳亘賵丿 賵 亘丿賵賳 賱賳蹖賳 賴賲 丕賳賯賱丕亘 丕讴鬲亘乇蹖 乇賵蹖 賳賲蹖 丿丕丿. 丕丿賵丕乇丿 乇丕跇蹖賳爻讴蹖 丿乇 丕蹖賳 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 夭賳丿诏蹖賳丕賲賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳蹖 賲亘鬲賳蹖 亘乇 丕爻賳丕丿 鬲丕夭賴 蹖丕亘貙 賴賵蹖鬲 賵 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賵丕賯毓蹖 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 乇丕 亘賴 氐賵乇鬲蹖 賲賳氐賮丕賳賴 賵 毓丕乇蹖 丕夭 賴乇 诏賵賳賴 倬蹖卮 丿丕賵乇蹖 亘乇賲賱丕 賲蹖 讴賳丿. 乇丕跇蹖賳爻讴蹖 鬲賵丕賳爻鬲賴 丕爻鬲 亘丕 賲賴丕乇鬲蹖 賲孬丕賱 夭丿賳蹖 丿賳蹖丕蹖 毓噩蹖亘 賵 賲鬲賳丕賯囟 丕毓蹖丕賳 賵 丕卮乇丕賮 乇賵爻蹖賴 丿乇 爻丕賱 賴丕 賵 賲丕賴 賴丕蹖 倬丕蹖丕賳蹖 丕賲倬乇丕胤賵乇蹖 乇賵爻蹖賴 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 讴鬲丕亘 亘丕夭爻丕夭蹖 讴賳丿.賲丕 亘丕 禺賵丕賳丿賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 倬蹖 賲蹖 亘乇蹖賲 趩诏賵賳賴 丌乇蹖爻鬲賵讴乇丕鬲 賴丕蹖 乇賵爻蹖賴 讴賲乇 亘賴 賯鬲賱 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 亘爻鬲賳丿貙 賵 趩诏賵賳賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 亘賴 賳賵亘賴 禺賵丿卮 鬲賵丕賳爻鬲 丌乇蹖爻鬲賵讴乇丕爻蹖 乇丕 賳丕亘賵丿 讴賳丿. 乇丕跇蹖賳爻讴蹖 賲賵乇禺蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賴蹖趩 诏乇丕蹖卮 爻蹖丕爻蹖 蹖丕 鬲毓賱賯 禺丕胤乇蹖 亘賴 趩倬 賴丕 賳丿丕乇丿 賵 亘賴 賴賲蹖賳 丿賱蹖賱 乇賵丕蹖鬲蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丿賵 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賵 丌禺乇蹖賳 鬲夭丕乇 丕乇丕卅賴 賲蹖 讴賳丿 亘乇丕蹖賲丕賳 亘爻蹖丕乇 鬲丕夭诏蹖 丿丕乇丿 賵 趩賴 亘爻丕 丿賯蹖賯丕 乇賵卮賳 賲蹖 讴賳丿 讴賴 趩乇丕 丌賳 乇跇蹖賲 賲丨讴賵賲 亘賴 賮賳丕 亘賵丿.
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First published January 1, 2000
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Edvard Radzinsky
86听books95听followersRadzinsky (Russian: 协写胁邪褉写 袪邪写蟹懈薪褋泻懈泄) is an author of more than forty popular non-fiction books on historical subjects. Since the 1990s, he has written the series Mysteries of History. The books translated to English include his biographies of Tsars Nicholas II and Alexander II, Rasputin, and Joseph Stalin. His book Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives discusses a number of well known controversies about Joseph Stalin, including the existence of a fuller text of Lenin's Testament, the alleged involvement of Stalin as an agent of the Tsarist secret police, and the role of Stalin in the death of his wife and the murder of Sergey Kirov. According to Radzinsky, Stalin was poisoned by order of Lavrentiy Beria. His book includes an interview with a former bodyguard of Stalin, who stated that on the night of Stalin's death, the bodyguards were relieved of duty by an NKVD officer named Khrustalev. This same officer was briefly mentioned in Memories, the memoir of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva. Radzinsky also supported the hypotesis by Viktor Suvorov that Stalin had prepared a preemptive strike against Nazi Germany
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賳鬲蹖噩賴鈥屭屫臂� 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 讴賴 丿乇 丕賳鬲賴丕蹖 讴鬲丕亘 賳賵卮鬲賴 卮丿賴 禺蹖賱蹖 亘賴 鬲氐賵乇丕鬲 賲賳 丕夭 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丿乇 丨蹖賳 禺賵賳丿賳 讴鬲丕亘 賳夭丿蹖讴 亘賵丿 亘丕 丕蹖賳 丨丕賱 诏丕賴蹖 賴賲 亘賴 卮讴 賲蹖賮鬲丕丿賲 讴賴 賳讴賳賴 賵丕賯毓丕 鈥溫堌池簇з嗏€� 趩蹖夭蹖 賮乇丕鬲乇 丕夭 蹖讴 丕賳爻丕賳 毓丕丿蹖 亘賵丿責! 丕賲丕 丿乇 讴賱 賮讴乇 賲蹖讴賳賲 丕诏賴 禺乇丕賮丕鬲 賵 亘賴 鬲丕亘毓蹖鬲 丕賵賳 賲爻卅賱賴 丿蹖賳 丿乇 爻蹖丕爻鬲 賵噩賵丿 賳丿丕卮鬲 賳賴 賲賱讴賴 賵 鬲夭丕乇 毓賯賱卮賵賳鈥屫辟� 賲蹖丿丕丿賳 丿爻鬲 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳貙 賳賴 丕賮乇丕丿蹖 賲孬賱 賱丕禺鬲蹖賳丕 亘賴 禺丕胤乇 卮蹖丕丿蹖 讴賴 丨鬲蹖 禺賵丿卮 賴賲 賳賲蹖丿賵賳爻鬲 卮蹖丕丿賴 丿蹖賵賵賳賴 賵 丿乇 亘賴 丿乇 氐賵賲毓賴鈥屬囏� 賲蹖卮丿賳貙 賳賴 丕賮乇丕丿蹖 賲孬賱 丌賳丿乇賵賳蹖讴賮貙 爻蹖賲丕賳賵賵蹖趩 賵鈥� 賲蹖鬲賵賳爻鬲賳 丕夭 丕蹖賳 丨噩賲 丕夭 禺乇丕賮丕鬲 賵 丨賲丕賯鬲 爻賵丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 讴賳賳.
鬲賵 乇蹖賵蹖賵 噩賱丿 蹖讴 賳賵卮鬲賴 亘賵丿賲 讴賴 氐丨鬲 賵 爻賯賲 賲胤丕賱亘 鬲丕蹖蹖丿 卮丿賴 賳蹖爻 賵賱蹖 丕賱丕賳 賮讴乇 賲蹖讴賳賲 丕氐賱丕 賱丕夭賲 賳亘賵丿 讴賴 鬲丕蹖蹖丿卮丿賴 亘丕卮賴 趩賵賳 讴鬲丕亘 賳賲蹖禺賵丕丿 賳馗乇 賯胤毓蹖 禺賵丿卮鈥屫辟� 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 亘诏賴 亘賱讴賴 賳馗乇丕鬲 賲賵丕賮賯 賵 賲禺丕賱賮鈥屫辟� 賲蹖诏賴 鬲丕 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 卮禺氐蹖鬲 毓噩蹖亘 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 鬲氐賲蹖賲 亘诏蹖乇賴. 丕賲鬲蹖丕夭鈥屫辟� 賴賲 丕夭 鄞 亘賴 鄣 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 賲蹖丿賲.
郾鄞郯鄄/鄄/鄣: 丨丕賱丕 讴賴 噩賱丿 丿賵賲鈥屫辟� 賴賲 禺賵賳丿賲 讴鬲丕亘 亘賴 賳馗乇賲 噩匕丕亘鬲乇 賴賲 乇爻蹖丿賴貙 賵丕賯毓丕 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 讴蹖 亘賵丿責 趩賳丿鬲丕 毓讴爻 丕夭 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丿乇 賵爻胤 讴鬲丕亘 趩丕倬 卮丿賴 讴賴 丨鬲蹖 亘丕 賳诏丕賴 讴乇丿賳 亘賴 趩卮賲丕賳 賳丕賮匕卮 丿乇 丕蹖賳 毓讴爻鈥屬囏й� 亘蹖鈥屭┷屬佦屫� 賵 爻蹖丕賴 爻賮蹖丿 賲爻禺 賲蹖卮蹖 賵 賳賲蹖鬲賵賳蹖 丕夭卮 趩卮賲 亘乇丿丕乇蹖!
賳鬲蹖噩賴鈥屭屫臂� 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 讴賴 丿乇 丕賳鬲賴丕蹖 讴鬲丕亘 賳賵卮鬲賴 卮丿賴 禺蹖賱蹖 亘賴 鬲氐賵乇丕鬲 賲賳 丕夭 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丿乇 丨蹖賳 禺賵賳丿賳 讴鬲丕亘 賳夭丿蹖讴 亘賵丿 亘丕 丕蹖賳 丨丕賱 诏丕賴蹖 賴賲 亘賴 卮讴 賲蹖賮鬲丕丿賲 讴賴 賳讴賳賴 賵丕賯毓丕 鈥溫堌池簇з嗏€� 趩蹖夭蹖 賮乇丕鬲乇 丕夭 蹖讴 丕賳爻丕賳 毓丕丿蹖 亘賵丿責! 丕賲丕 丿乇 讴賱 賮讴乇 賲蹖讴賳賲 丕诏賴 禺乇丕賮丕鬲 賵 亘賴 鬲丕亘毓蹖鬲 丕賵賳 賲爻卅賱賴 丿蹖賳 丿乇 爻蹖丕爻鬲 賵噩賵丿 賳丿丕卮鬲 賳賴 賲賱讴賴 賵 鬲夭丕乇 毓賯賱卮賵賳鈥屫辟� 賲蹖丿丕丿賳 丿爻鬲 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳貙 賳賴 丕賮乇丕丿蹖 賲孬賱 賱丕禺鬲蹖賳丕 亘賴 禺丕胤乇 卮蹖丕丿蹖 讴賴 丨鬲蹖 禺賵丿卮 賴賲 賳賲蹖丿賵賳爻鬲 卮蹖丕丿賴 丿蹖賵賵賳賴 賵 丿乇 亘賴 丿乇 氐賵賲毓賴鈥屬囏� 賲蹖卮丿賳貙 賳賴 丕賮乇丕丿蹖 賲孬賱 丌賳丿乇賵賳蹖讴賮貙 爻蹖賲丕賳賵賵蹖趩 賵鈥� 賲蹖鬲賵賳爻鬲賳 丕夭 丕蹖賳 丨噩賲 丕夭 禺乇丕賮丕鬲 賵 丨賲丕賯鬲 爻賵丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 讴賳賳.
鬲賵 乇蹖賵蹖賵 噩賱丿 蹖讴 賳賵卮鬲賴 亘賵丿賲 讴賴 氐丨鬲 賵 爻賯賲 賲胤丕賱亘 鬲丕蹖蹖丿 卮丿賴 賳蹖爻 賵賱蹖 丕賱丕賳 賮讴乇 賲蹖讴賳賲 丕氐賱丕 賱丕夭賲 賳亘賵丿 讴賴 鬲丕蹖蹖丿卮丿賴 亘丕卮賴 趩賵賳 讴鬲丕亘 賳賲蹖禺賵丕丿 賳馗乇 賯胤毓蹖 禺賵丿卮鈥屫辟� 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 亘诏賴 亘賱讴賴 賳馗乇丕鬲 賲賵丕賮賯 賵 賲禺丕賱賮鈥屫辟� 賲蹖诏賴 鬲丕 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 卮禺氐蹖鬲 毓噩蹖亘 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 鬲氐賲蹖賲 亘诏蹖乇賴. 丕賲鬲蹖丕夭鈥屫辟� 賴賲 丕夭 鄞 亘賴 鄣 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 賲蹖丿賲.
April 14, 2025
丕爻賲 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 亘賴 賯丿乇蹖 亘丕 丕賮爻丕賳賴 賵 亘丕賵乇 賴丕蹖 賲乇丿賲蹖 诏乇賴 禺賵乇丿賴 讴賴 亘賴 爻禺鬲蹖 賲蹖卮賴 貙賵丕賯毓蹖鬲 乇賵 丕夭 丕賮爻丕賳賴 鬲卮禺蹖氐 丿丕丿貙 亘賴 賴賲蹖賳 禺丕胤乇 倬蹖丿丕 讴乇丿賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賵 讴鬲丕亘蹖 讴賴 亘鬲賵賳賴 丕夭 賯蹖丿 賮乇賴賳诏 毓丕賲賴 禺賵丿卮 乇賵 禺賱丕氐 讴賳賴 鬲丕 丨丿 夭蹖丕丿蹖 爻禺鬲賴 .
丕夭 夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 讴賲蹖 亘賴 鬲丕乇蹖禺 乇賵爻蹖賴 賯亘賱 丕賳賯賱丕亘 亘賱賵卮賵蹖讴蹖 賳诏丕賴 賲蹖讴賳蹖 貙卮丕蹖丿 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丕夭 丕爻賲 鬲夭丕乇 貙賱賳蹖賳 賵鈥�. 丕爻賲 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 鬲讴乇丕乇 賲蹖卮賴 貙 亘賴 賯丿乇蹖 讴賴 丨鬲蹖 乇丕賴 禺賵丿卮賵 鬲賵 讴丕乇鬲賵賳 賴丕蹖 夭賲丕賳 亘趩诏蹖 賵 丕賴賳诏 賴丕 亘丕夭 賲蹖讴賳賴 貨丕賲丕 趩乇丕 責 趩蹖 趩蹖夭蹖 丕蹖賳 丕丿賲 乇賵 丕蹖賳賯丿乇 禺丕氐 賵 賲賳丨氐乇 亘賴 賮乇丿 賲蹖讴賳賴 責
丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘賴 禺賵亘蹖 丕蹖賳 賲賵囟賵毓 乇賵 乇賵卮賳 賲蹖讴賳賴 貙乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賵丕賯毓丕 讴蹖 亘賵丿 責丿賵爻鬲丕賳 賵 丿卮賲賳丕賳卮 讴蹖 亘賵丿賳丿 責賵 賲賴賲 鬲乇 丕夭 賴賲賴 趩乇丕 賱丕蹖賯 丕蹖賳賴賲賴 丨乇賮蹖 賴爻鬲 讴賴 鬲丕 爻丕賱 賴丕 倬爻 丕夭 賲乇诏卮 丿乇 賲賵乇丿卮 夭丿賴 賲蹖卮賴 .
丿乇 讴鬲亘 鬲丕乇蹖禺蹖 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 丿賱丕蹖賱蹖 讴賴 亘乇丕蹖 爻乇賳诏賵賳蹖 爻賱爻賴 乇賵賲丕賳賵賮 賴丕 亘蹖丕賳 賲蹖卮賴 貙乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 毓賴 貨 賯亘賱 丕夭 禺賵賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘乇丕賲 賯丕亘賱 亘丕賵乇 賳亘賵丿 讴賴 趩胤賵乇 蹖讴 乇毓蹖鬲 爻丕丿賴 讴賴 鬲丕夭賴 亘賴 賳馗乇 賲蹖乇爻賴 丿賵爻鬲 賲賱讴賴 賵 鬲夭丕乇 賴賲 賴爻鬲 貙亘鬲賵賳賴 丕蹖賳讴丕乇 乇賵 亘讴賳賴 貙 丕賲丕 乇賵爻蹖賴 賴賲 丿趩丕乇 賴賲丕賳 讴賱蹖卮賴 讴鬲丕亘 賴丕蹖 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賲蹖卮賴 貙賳丕乇囟丕蹖鬲蹖 賲乇丿賲 貙鬲賵胤卅賴 賵 丿禺丕賱鬲 丿乇亘丕乇蹖丕賳 賵 噩賳诏 賴丕蹖 禺丕乇噩蹖 亘丕毓孬 爻乇賳诏賵賳蹖 鬲夭丕乇 賲蹖卮賳 賵 爻賵禺鬲 丿賵 賲賵乇丿 丕賵賱 乇賵 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 鬲賲丕賲 賵 讴賲丕賱 鬲丕賲蹖賳 賲蹖讴賳賴 賵 賲賱讴賴 賵 鬲夭丕乇 賴賲 讴丕賲賱丕 倬卮鬲蹖亘丕賳蹖卮 賲蹖讴賳賳 .
蹖賴 賳讴鬲賴鈥屰� 噩丕賱亘 丿乇亘丕乇賴鈥屰� 禺賵丿 毓賳賵丕賳 讴鬲丕亘賴貨 賵丕賯毓丕賸 賴賲 鬲丕 丕賲乇賵夭 讴爻蹖 賳鬲賵賳爻鬲賴 鬲氐賵蹖乇 賵丕丨丿蹖 丕夭 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丕乇丕卅賴 亘丿賴. 亘丕賱丕禺乇賴 丕蹖賳 丌丿賲 蹖賴 賲乇丿 賲賯丿爻 亘賵丿 蹖丕 蹖賴 卮蹖丕丿 夭賳鈥屫ㄘж辟囏� 丕賲丕 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 噩丕賱亘賴 丕蹖賳賴 讴賴 賴賲賴 賭 趩賴 賲禺丕賱賮丕卮貙 趩賴 胤乇賮丿丕乇丕卮 賭 乇賵蹖 丿賵 賳讴鬲賴 鬲賵丕賮賯 丿丕乇賳:
郾. 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賵丕賯毓丕賸 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗀池� 噩賱賵蹖 禺賵賳乇蹖夭蹖 賵賱蹖毓賴丿 賲亘鬲賱丕 亘賴 賴賲賵賮蹖賱蹖 乇賵 亘诏蹖乇賴.
鄄. 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賵丕賯毓丕賸 丌丿賲 賮丕爻丿 賵 夭賳鈥屫ㄘж辟団€屫й� 亘賵丿賴.
賴乇讴丿賵賲 丕夭 丕蹖賳 丿賵 賲賵乇丿 禺賵丿卮 蹖賴 丿賳蹖丕 丨乇賮 丿丕乇賴. 丨鬲蹖 亘乇丕蹖 丕賵賳 賲毓噩夭賴鈥� 丕賵賱蹖 賴賲 亘毓丿賴丕 賲蹖鈥屫促� 鬲賵囟蹖丨 賲賳胤賯蹖 丌賵乇丿貙 賵賱蹖 鬲賵 賴賲賵賳 夭賲丕賳 賴賲貙 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 蹖賴 卮禺氐蹖鬲 丿賵诏丕賳賴 亘賵丿賴: 賳蹖賲賴鈥屬傌屫池� 賳蹖賲賴鈥屫жㄙ勠屫�.
卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 讴鬲丕亘 禺蹖賱蹖 夭蹖丕丿 亘賵丿賳丿 丕賲丕 亘賴 賳馗乇賲 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 趩丕乇賴 蹖 丿蹖诏乇蹖 噩夭 賲毓乇賮蹖 賴賲賴 賳丿丕卮鬲 貙亘乇賴賴 丨爻丕爻蹖 丕夭 鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賵丿賴 賵 卮禺氐蹖鬲蹖 亘賴 丕蹖賳 賲賴賲蹖 賲胤賲卅賳丕 丕賮乇丕丿 夭蹖丕丿蹖 丿賵乇 賵 亘乇卮 賴爻鬲賳丿 讴賴 亘賴 賳丨賵蹖 蹖丕 亘乇 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 鬲丕孬蹖乇 诏匕丕卮鬲賳丿 賵 蹖丕 丕夭卮 鬲丕孬蹖乇 诏乇賮鬲賳丿 .(賱蹖爻鬲 丕爻丕賲蹖 亘丕 卮睾賱 賵 鬲賵囟蹖丨丕鬲 貙丿乇 丕禺乇 噩賱丿 丿賵賲 丿乇 亘賴 蹖丕丿 丕賵乇丿賳卮賵賳 讴賲讴 讴賳賳丿賴 丕爻鬲).
讴鬲丕亘 胤賵賱丕賳蹖 賵 倬乇 丕夭 噩夭卅蹖丕鬲賴 貙卮丕蹖丿 丿乇 賳诏丕賴 丕賵賱 丕蹖賳 噩夭卅蹖丕鬲 睾蹖乇 囟乇賵乇蹖 亘丕卮賳丿 丕賲丕 賴賲蹖賳 乇蹖夭賴鈥屭┴ж臂� 賴丕 亘丕毓孬 賲蹖卮賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 乇賵 亘賴 卮讴賱 毓賲蹖賯 鬲乇蹖 亘卮賳丕爻蹖賲 賵 賲賳 賵丕賯毓丕 丕夭 禺賵賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賳賴丕蹖鬲 賱匕鬲 乇賵 亘乇丿賲 .
丿乇 賲賵乇丿 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賵 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 禺蹖賱蹖 丨乇賮 賴丕 賲蹖卮賴 夭丿 貙丕賲丕 丕诏乇 亘禺賵丕賲 丿乇 蹖讴 噩賲賱賴 亘丨孬 乇賵 亘亘賳丿賲 貙讴鬲丕亘蹖 亘賴鬲乇 丕夭 丕蹖賳 貙亘丕 丕蹖賳 丿賯鬲 鬲丕乇蹖禺蹖 賵 亘蹖胤乇賮蹖 賵 賲爻鬲賳丿丕鬲 讴丕賲賱 丿乇 賲賵囟賵毓蹖 賲孬賱 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 讴賴 倬乇 丕夭 爻賵诏蹖乇蹖 丕爻鬲 貙倬蹖丿丕 賳賲蹖卮賴 .
丕夭 夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 讴賲蹖 亘賴 鬲丕乇蹖禺 乇賵爻蹖賴 賯亘賱 丕賳賯賱丕亘 亘賱賵卮賵蹖讴蹖 賳诏丕賴 賲蹖讴賳蹖 貙卮丕蹖丿 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丕夭 丕爻賲 鬲夭丕乇 貙賱賳蹖賳 賵鈥�. 丕爻賲 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 鬲讴乇丕乇 賲蹖卮賴 貙 亘賴 賯丿乇蹖 讴賴 丨鬲蹖 乇丕賴 禺賵丿卮賵 鬲賵 讴丕乇鬲賵賳 賴丕蹖 夭賲丕賳 亘趩诏蹖 賵 丕賴賳诏 賴丕 亘丕夭 賲蹖讴賳賴 貨丕賲丕 趩乇丕 責 趩蹖 趩蹖夭蹖 丕蹖賳 丕丿賲 乇賵 丕蹖賳賯丿乇 禺丕氐 賵 賲賳丨氐乇 亘賴 賮乇丿 賲蹖讴賳賴 責
丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘賴 禺賵亘蹖 丕蹖賳 賲賵囟賵毓 乇賵 乇賵卮賳 賲蹖讴賳賴 貙乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賵丕賯毓丕 讴蹖 亘賵丿 責丿賵爻鬲丕賳 賵 丿卮賲賳丕賳卮 讴蹖 亘賵丿賳丿 責賵 賲賴賲 鬲乇 丕夭 賴賲賴 趩乇丕 賱丕蹖賯 丕蹖賳賴賲賴 丨乇賮蹖 賴爻鬲 讴賴 鬲丕 爻丕賱 賴丕 倬爻 丕夭 賲乇诏卮 丿乇 賲賵乇丿卮 夭丿賴 賲蹖卮賴 .
丿乇 讴鬲亘 鬲丕乇蹖禺蹖 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 丿賱丕蹖賱蹖 讴賴 亘乇丕蹖 爻乇賳诏賵賳蹖 爻賱爻賴 乇賵賲丕賳賵賮 賴丕 亘蹖丕賳 賲蹖卮賴 貙乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 毓賴 貨 賯亘賱 丕夭 禺賵賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘乇丕賲 賯丕亘賱 亘丕賵乇 賳亘賵丿 讴賴 趩胤賵乇 蹖讴 乇毓蹖鬲 爻丕丿賴 讴賴 鬲丕夭賴 亘賴 賳馗乇 賲蹖乇爻賴 丿賵爻鬲 賲賱讴賴 賵 鬲夭丕乇 賴賲 賴爻鬲 貙亘鬲賵賳賴 丕蹖賳讴丕乇 乇賵 亘讴賳賴 貙 丕賲丕 乇賵爻蹖賴 賴賲 丿趩丕乇 賴賲丕賳 讴賱蹖卮賴 讴鬲丕亘 賴丕蹖 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賲蹖卮賴 貙賳丕乇囟丕蹖鬲蹖 賲乇丿賲 貙鬲賵胤卅賴 賵 丿禺丕賱鬲 丿乇亘丕乇蹖丕賳 賵 噩賳诏 賴丕蹖 禺丕乇噩蹖 亘丕毓孬 爻乇賳诏賵賳蹖 鬲夭丕乇 賲蹖卮賳 賵 爻賵禺鬲 丿賵 賲賵乇丿 丕賵賱 乇賵 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 鬲賲丕賲 賵 讴賲丕賱 鬲丕賲蹖賳 賲蹖讴賳賴 賵 賲賱讴賴 賵 鬲夭丕乇 賴賲 讴丕賲賱丕 倬卮鬲蹖亘丕賳蹖卮 賲蹖讴賳賳 .
蹖賴 賳讴鬲賴鈥屰� 噩丕賱亘 丿乇亘丕乇賴鈥屰� 禺賵丿 毓賳賵丕賳 讴鬲丕亘賴貨 賵丕賯毓丕賸 賴賲 鬲丕 丕賲乇賵夭 讴爻蹖 賳鬲賵賳爻鬲賴 鬲氐賵蹖乇 賵丕丨丿蹖 丕夭 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丕乇丕卅賴 亘丿賴. 亘丕賱丕禺乇賴 丕蹖賳 丌丿賲 蹖賴 賲乇丿 賲賯丿爻 亘賵丿 蹖丕 蹖賴 卮蹖丕丿 夭賳鈥屫ㄘж辟囏� 丕賲丕 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 噩丕賱亘賴 丕蹖賳賴 讴賴 賴賲賴 賭 趩賴 賲禺丕賱賮丕卮貙 趩賴 胤乇賮丿丕乇丕卮 賭 乇賵蹖 丿賵 賳讴鬲賴 鬲賵丕賮賯 丿丕乇賳:
郾. 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賵丕賯毓丕賸 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗀池� 噩賱賵蹖 禺賵賳乇蹖夭蹖 賵賱蹖毓賴丿 賲亘鬲賱丕 亘賴 賴賲賵賮蹖賱蹖 乇賵 亘诏蹖乇賴.
鄄. 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賵丕賯毓丕賸 丌丿賲 賮丕爻丿 賵 夭賳鈥屫ㄘж辟団€屫й� 亘賵丿賴.
賴乇讴丿賵賲 丕夭 丕蹖賳 丿賵 賲賵乇丿 禺賵丿卮 蹖賴 丿賳蹖丕 丨乇賮 丿丕乇賴. 丨鬲蹖 亘乇丕蹖 丕賵賳 賲毓噩夭賴鈥� 丕賵賱蹖 賴賲 亘毓丿賴丕 賲蹖鈥屫促� 鬲賵囟蹖丨 賲賳胤賯蹖 丌賵乇丿貙 賵賱蹖 鬲賵 賴賲賵賳 夭賲丕賳 賴賲貙 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 蹖賴 卮禺氐蹖鬲 丿賵诏丕賳賴 亘賵丿賴: 賳蹖賲賴鈥屬傌屫池� 賳蹖賲賴鈥屫жㄙ勠屫�.
卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 讴鬲丕亘 禺蹖賱蹖 夭蹖丕丿 亘賵丿賳丿 丕賲丕 亘賴 賳馗乇賲 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 趩丕乇賴 蹖 丿蹖诏乇蹖 噩夭 賲毓乇賮蹖 賴賲賴 賳丿丕卮鬲 貙亘乇賴賴 丨爻丕爻蹖 丕夭 鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賵丿賴 賵 卮禺氐蹖鬲蹖 亘賴 丕蹖賳 賲賴賲蹖 賲胤賲卅賳丕 丕賮乇丕丿 夭蹖丕丿蹖 丿賵乇 賵 亘乇卮 賴爻鬲賳丿 讴賴 亘賴 賳丨賵蹖 蹖丕 亘乇 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 鬲丕孬蹖乇 诏匕丕卮鬲賳丿 賵 蹖丕 丕夭卮 鬲丕孬蹖乇 诏乇賮鬲賳丿 .(賱蹖爻鬲 丕爻丕賲蹖 亘丕 卮睾賱 賵 鬲賵囟蹖丨丕鬲 貙丿乇 丕禺乇 噩賱丿 丿賵賲 丿乇 亘賴 蹖丕丿 丕賵乇丿賳卮賵賳 讴賲讴 讴賳賳丿賴 丕爻鬲).
讴鬲丕亘 胤賵賱丕賳蹖 賵 倬乇 丕夭 噩夭卅蹖丕鬲賴 貙卮丕蹖丿 丿乇 賳诏丕賴 丕賵賱 丕蹖賳 噩夭卅蹖丕鬲 睾蹖乇 囟乇賵乇蹖 亘丕卮賳丿 丕賲丕 賴賲蹖賳 乇蹖夭賴鈥屭┴ж臂� 賴丕 亘丕毓孬 賲蹖卮賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 乇賵 亘賴 卮讴賱 毓賲蹖賯 鬲乇蹖 亘卮賳丕爻蹖賲 賵 賲賳 賵丕賯毓丕 丕夭 禺賵賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賳賴丕蹖鬲 賱匕鬲 乇賵 亘乇丿賲 .
丿乇 賲賵乇丿 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賵 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 禺蹖賱蹖 丨乇賮 賴丕 賲蹖卮賴 夭丿 貙丕賲丕 丕诏乇 亘禺賵丕賲 丿乇 蹖讴 噩賲賱賴 亘丨孬 乇賵 亘亘賳丿賲 貙讴鬲丕亘蹖 亘賴鬲乇 丕夭 丕蹖賳 貙亘丕 丕蹖賳 丿賯鬲 鬲丕乇蹖禺蹖 賵 亘蹖胤乇賮蹖 賵 賲爻鬲賳丿丕鬲 讴丕賲賱 丿乇 賲賵囟賵毓蹖 賲孬賱 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 讴賴 倬乇 丕夭 爻賵诏蹖乇蹖 丕爻鬲 貙倬蹖丿丕 賳賲蹖卮賴 .
January 2, 2016
Just a little over a year ago, I asked Santa to bring me some books on historical bastards. This was one of the treats that Santa (or rather, NikNak) responded with.
Prior to reading this, the only thing I really knew about Rasputin was that he was apparently Russia鈥檚 greatest love machine (thanks, ). I now know that he was actually just Russia鈥檚 most persistent lech, but I also learnt a lot more (including the surprising revelation that this all happened so recently. Thanks to the ready acceptance of mystical bullshit on the part of the Royals, I鈥檇 thought this all took place in like, olden times.)
Born a peasant in a Russia that very much gave a shit about that sort of thing, Rasputin spent most of his youth apparently being drunk and violent, before a sudden change of heart led him to travel the country visiting holy places and like, finding himself, man. Instead of just getting a bit religious, he鈥檇 go the whole hog and soon make a name for himself through his 鈥榩rophetic visions鈥� and performing of 鈥榤iracles鈥�. Which would bring him to the attention of a Royal Family already prone to religious gullibility and worried for the health of their young son and haemophiliac heir.
Having already been hypnotised by another chancer into thinking she was pregnant (who explained, come her humiliation come her time of confinement and realisation that she was as pregnant as I am, that the pregnancy had disappeared due to her lack of faith), the tsarina was soon eating out of Rasputin鈥檚 hand (not literally), claiming his enemies as her own and alienating everyone else around her. As the Royal Family became increasingly isolated by the rest of their own family, the court, the church and the government, Rasputin would be dogged by controversy. Especially once he reverted back to drinking.
Already prone to groping anyone he could get his hands on and visiting, sometimes in just one day, many, many prostitutes (apparently he could totally cleanse you of sin by having sex with you), he was also believed to be controlling the tsarina (although the tutor to the royal children had it right when they said, 'His prophetic words most often merely confirmed the hidden wishes of the empress herself. She herself did not suspect that she had induced them, that she was their 'inspirer'. Her personal wishes, passing through Rasputin, acquired in her eyes the force and authenticity of revelation.') But the belief of his influence, alongside his penchant for bragging about his connections and power whilst slaughtered, would apparently wind up the wrong people and he would eventually be murdered by two members of the Royal Family and a leading politician 鈥� a murder that would help build his legend, no doubt thanks to Prince Felix鈥檚 dramatic description of the murder which read like something out of a zombie novel (鈥溾€ith an abrupt, furious movement, Rasputin sprang to his feet. He was foaming at the mouth. He was horrifying. The room resounded with a savage roar, and I saw the flash of his convulsively clenched fingers. Then, like red-hot iron, they sank into my shoulder and reached for my neck鈥︹€�).
A big, thick book that I ripped through in a matter of days, I couldn鈥檛 put this down thanks to the incredible details of Rasputin鈥檚 life. Making a legend much more human (even if he was a very, um, complicated man), this was packed with astonishing, sometimes awful and sometimes hilarious facts (I don鈥檛 know why I find this so funny, but on being challenged on why he kept taking young ladies to bathhouses, he replied, 'The society misses were so puffed up with pride, and in order to deflate it, it was necessary to humiliate them by forcing them to go to the bathhouse with a dirty peasant.').
I could have filled this review with a million of my favourite excerpts, but you really ought to read them for yourself. Go on.
Prior to reading this, the only thing I really knew about Rasputin was that he was apparently Russia鈥檚 greatest love machine (thanks, ). I now know that he was actually just Russia鈥檚 most persistent lech, but I also learnt a lot more (including the surprising revelation that this all happened so recently. Thanks to the ready acceptance of mystical bullshit on the part of the Royals, I鈥檇 thought this all took place in like, olden times.)
Born a peasant in a Russia that very much gave a shit about that sort of thing, Rasputin spent most of his youth apparently being drunk and violent, before a sudden change of heart led him to travel the country visiting holy places and like, finding himself, man. Instead of just getting a bit religious, he鈥檇 go the whole hog and soon make a name for himself through his 鈥榩rophetic visions鈥� and performing of 鈥榤iracles鈥�. Which would bring him to the attention of a Royal Family already prone to religious gullibility and worried for the health of their young son and haemophiliac heir.
Having already been hypnotised by another chancer into thinking she was pregnant (who explained, come her humiliation come her time of confinement and realisation that she was as pregnant as I am, that the pregnancy had disappeared due to her lack of faith), the tsarina was soon eating out of Rasputin鈥檚 hand (not literally), claiming his enemies as her own and alienating everyone else around her. As the Royal Family became increasingly isolated by the rest of their own family, the court, the church and the government, Rasputin would be dogged by controversy. Especially once he reverted back to drinking.
Already prone to groping anyone he could get his hands on and visiting, sometimes in just one day, many, many prostitutes (apparently he could totally cleanse you of sin by having sex with you), he was also believed to be controlling the tsarina (although the tutor to the royal children had it right when they said, 'His prophetic words most often merely confirmed the hidden wishes of the empress herself. She herself did not suspect that she had induced them, that she was their 'inspirer'. Her personal wishes, passing through Rasputin, acquired in her eyes the force and authenticity of revelation.') But the belief of his influence, alongside his penchant for bragging about his connections and power whilst slaughtered, would apparently wind up the wrong people and he would eventually be murdered by two members of the Royal Family and a leading politician 鈥� a murder that would help build his legend, no doubt thanks to Prince Felix鈥檚 dramatic description of the murder which read like something out of a zombie novel (鈥溾€ith an abrupt, furious movement, Rasputin sprang to his feet. He was foaming at the mouth. He was horrifying. The room resounded with a savage roar, and I saw the flash of his convulsively clenched fingers. Then, like red-hot iron, they sank into my shoulder and reached for my neck鈥︹€�).
A big, thick book that I ripped through in a matter of days, I couldn鈥檛 put this down thanks to the incredible details of Rasputin鈥檚 life. Making a legend much more human (even if he was a very, um, complicated man), this was packed with astonishing, sometimes awful and sometimes hilarious facts (I don鈥檛 know why I find this so funny, but on being challenged on why he kept taking young ladies to bathhouses, he replied, 'The society misses were so puffed up with pride, and in order to deflate it, it was necessary to humiliate them by forcing them to go to the bathhouse with a dirty peasant.').
I could have filled this review with a million of my favourite excerpts, but you really ought to read them for yourself. Go on.
August 13, 2022
禺亘 丨丿丕賯賱 丕夭 賮蹖賱賲 賴丕 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴丕蹖 賲亘鬲匕賱 毓丕賲蹖丕賳賴 丕蹖 讴賴 賲乇丿賲 丿乇 賵氐賮卮 賲蹖诏賵蹖賳丿 (诏乇蹖诏賵乇蹖 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳)亘賴鬲乇 亘賵丿.
December 20, 2009
Awful. Radzinsky's one strong point is his access to the titular file, which enables him to reveal information not found in other accounts of Rasputin and the Romanovs. But he is not a good enough writer to handle the information; this is a clunky, unbearably boring book, full of characters who don't do anything and events that don't portend anything and prose that barely means anything. I don't know if his choppy, fragmented style is the result of something lost in translation, but this was painful to read. Skip this, and try something by Robert K. Massie.
May 6, 2018
乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 讴爻蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 賲賱讴賴 乇賵爻蹖賴 丕夭 丌賳趩賴 丕賵 賲蹖 诏賮鬲 亘乇丕蹖 丨讴賵賲鬲 讴乇丿賳 亘乇 鬲夭丕乇 賵 乇賵爻蹖賴 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 賲蹖 讴乇丿
乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 趩賳丕賳趩賴 丕夭 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賲蹖 丌蹖丿 亘乇丕蹖 丿賵爻鬲丕賳卮 卮賵賲 亘賵丿
乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 趩賳丕賳趩賴 丕夭 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賲蹖 丌蹖丿 亘乇丕蹖 丿賵爻鬲丕賳卮 卮賵賲 亘賵丿
October 19, 2018
倬丕蹖丕賳 噩賱丿 丕賵賱 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳...
诏乇蹖诏賵乇蹖 丕蹖賮蹖賲賵蹖趩 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丿賴賯丕賳 乇丕賴亘 賵 亘蹖 爻賵丕丿蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 亘賴 丿乇亘丕乇 爻胤賱賳鬲蹖 鬲夭丕乇 賳蹖讴賱丕蹖 乇賵賲丕賳賵賮 丿賵賲 乇丕賴 倬蹖丿丕 讴乇丿. 亘丕 鬲賵噩賴 亘賴 丕胤賱丕毓丕鬲 賲賵噩賵丿 丿乇 讴鬲丕亘 :乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 乇丕賴亘 賲爻蹖丨蹖 丕夭 賮乇賯賴 丕蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲 "禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖" 亘賵丿 讴賴 乇爻賵丕蹖蹖 賴丕蹖 丕禺賱丕賯蹖 夭蹖丕丿蹖 亘賴 亘丕乇 丌賵乇丿. 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 亘丕 賵噩賵丿 丕蹖賳讴賴 讴賲 爻賵丕丿 亘賵丿 鬲賵丕賳爻鬲 賳賮賵匕 夭蹖丕丿蹖 亘乇 鬲夭丕乇蹖賳丕 亘诏匕丕乇丿 賵 丕蹖賳 賳賮賵匕 "毓噩蹖亘" 賵 "鬲丕孬蹖乇 禺丕氐" 丿乇爻鬲 丕夭 乇賵夭蹖 卮乇賵毓 卮丿 讴賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 亘丕 賯丿乇鬲 "卮賮丕亘禺卮蹖" 讴賴 丿丕卮鬲 亘蹖賲丕乇蹖 賴賲賵賮蹖賱蹖 丕賱讴爻蹖 乇賵賲丕賳賵賮 ,倬爻乇 賳蹖讴賱丕蹖 丿賵賲" 乇丕 賲丿丕賵丕 讴乇丿. 丕賱亘鬲賴 丿乇 乇丕亘胤賴 亘丕 卮賮丕亘禺卮蹖 亘賴 丕賱讴爻蹖 亘丕 鬲賵爻賱 亘賴 賯丿乇鬲 賴丕蹖 賲丕賵乇丕蹖蹖 賵 賯丿爻蹖 氐丿 丿乇 氐丿 鬲乇丿蹖丿 賴丕蹖蹖 賵噩賵丿 丿丕卮鬲. 诏賮鬲賴 卮丿賴 賲爻卅賱賴 卮賮丕 亘禺卮蹖 亘賴 丕賱讴爻蹖 丕夭 胤乇蹖賯 "賴蹖倬賳賵鬲蹖夭賲" 氐賵乇鬲 诏乇賮鬲賴. 讴丕乇蹖 讴賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丿乇 丕賳噩丕賲 丌賳 賲賴丕乇鬲 丿丕卮鬲. 趩卮賲丕賳 賳丕賮匕 賵 诏蹖乇丕. 爻賮蹖丿蹖 亘蹖卮 丕夭 丨丿 趩卮賲 賴丕,丿爻鬲丕賳 夭賲禺鬲 丿賴賯丕賳蹖,乇蹖卮 倬乇倬卮鬲 賵 夭蹖丕丿 賵 爻丕丿诏蹖 讴賱丕賲 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賴賲賴 賵 賴賲賴 丿乇 鬲丕孬蹖乇 诏匕丕乇蹖 丕賵 亘乇 丕賮乇丕丿 賳賯卮 毓賲丿賴 丕蹖 丕蹖賮丕 讴乇丿賴 丕賳丿.
乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賲乇蹖丿丕賳 夭蹖丕丿蹖 丿丕卮鬲 讴賴 夭賳丕賳 丕讴孬乇蹖鬲 乇丕 鬲卮讴蹖賱 賲蹖 丿丕丿賳丿. 丕毓鬲乇丕賮丕鬲 鬲讴丕賳 丿賴賳丿賴 亘乇禺蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賲乇蹖丿丕賳 賳卮丕賳诏乇 丕禺賱丕賯蹖丕鬲 賮丕爻丿 賵 爻賵亍 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 噩賳爻蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳 夭賳 賴丕 亘賴 亘賴丕賳賴 亘賴 噩丕 丌賵乇丿賳 丌丿丕亘 "禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖" 丿乇 "倬乇賵賳丿賴" 賲賵噩賵丿 丕爻鬲. 丕毓鬲乇丕賮丕鬲蹖 讴賴 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕賳賯賱丕亘 丕讴鬲亘乇 亘賱卮賵蹖讴 賴丕 鬲賵爻胤 讴賲蹖爻蹖賵賳 賮賵賯 丕賱毓丕丿賴 丿乇 "倬乇賵賳丿賴" 孬亘鬲 賵 囟亘胤" 卮丿賴 .
丕賱讴爻丕賳丿乇丕 賮蹖賵丿賵乇賵賵賳丕 :
丕賱讴爻丕賳丿乇丕(賲賱讴賴) 讴賴 丕毓鬲賯丕丿丕鬲 賵 亘丕賵乇 賴丕蹖 賲匕賴亘蹖 賵 禺乇丕賮蹖 賲鬲毓氐亘丕賳賴 丿丕卮鬲,乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 乇丕 亘賴 賲孬丕亘賴 蹖讴 賮乇丿 賮賵賯 賲賯丿爻 賲蹖 卮賳丕禺鬲 賵 丕毓鬲賯丕丿 丿丕卮鬲 讴賴 丕蹖賳 賲乇丿 禺丿丕 "賲爻蹖丨 乇賵蹖 夭賲蹖賳 " 丕爻鬲. 丿乇 賳鬲蹖噩賴 丕賱讴爻丕賳丿乇丕 讴賴 丌賲賵禺鬲賴 亘賵丿 趩诏賵賳賴 丕蹖賲丕賳 禺賵丿 乇丕 丨賮馗 讴賳丿. 讴賵乇 讴賵乇丕賳賴 卮蹖賮鬲賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 卮丿 賵 丕夭 丕賵 鬲亘毓蹖鬲 賲蹖 讴乇丿. 亘乇丕蹖 丕賱讴爻丕賳丿乇丕 賴蹖趩诏賵賳賴 爻賳丿 賵 賲丿乇讴蹖 賲亘賳蹖 亘乇 賮爻丕丿 丕禺賱丕賯蹖 賵 賳賮賵匕 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賵 丿禺丕賱鬲 丕賵 丿乇 丕賲賵乇 爻蹖丕爻蹖 讴卮賵乇 ,丕毓鬲亘丕乇 賳丿丕卮鬲 賵 亘賴 爻亘亘 丕蹖賲丕賳 讴賵乇讴賵乇丕賳賴 亘賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 ,丿賴賯丕賳 乇丕 丕夭 禺賵丿 丿賵乇 賳讴乇丿,丕夭 丿蹖丿诏丕賴 鬲夭丕乇蹖賳丕 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賲乇丿蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 丕夭 噩丕賳亘 禺丿丕 丌賲丿賴 亘賵丿 賵 丨丕賱 讴賴 丕賱讴爻蹖 丕夭 氐丿賯賴 爻乇蹖 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丕夭 賴賲賵賮蹖賱蹖 賳噩丕鬲 蹖丕賮鬲賴 亘賵丿.趩乇丕 亘丕蹖丿 鬲賴賲鬲 賴丕蹖 丿乇亘丕乇蹖丕賳,賳卮乇蹖丕鬲 賵 賲賯丕賲丕鬲 丨讴賵賲鬲蹖 賵 卮賵乇丕蹖 賯丿爻蹖 乇丕 丿乇 乇丕亘胤賴 亘丕 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 亘丕賵乇 賲蹖 讴乇丿責
乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳:
亘賴 丕蹖賳 鬲乇鬲蹖亘 丿賴賯丕賳 賲賯丿爻,賲爻鬲賯蹖賲丕 亘乇 賲賱讴賴 鬲丕孬蹖乇 賲蹖 诏匕丕卮鬲 賵 賲賱讴賴 亘乇 賳蹖讴賱丕蹖...
丕丿丕乇賴 讴卮賵乇 亘丿爻鬲 蹖讴 丿賴賯丕賳 亘蹖 爻賵丕丿 丕夭 丿賴讴丿賴 倬丕讴乇賵賮爻讴賵蹖賴 丕賮鬲丕丿賴 亘賵丿.蹖讴 賲爻蹖丨蹖 禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖 讴賴 丕丿毓丕 賲蹖 讴乇丿 乇賵丨 賲賯丿爻 丿乇 丕賵 丨賱賵賱 讴乇丿賴.
丌蹖蹖賳 禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖:
禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖 賴丕 亘賴 丿賴賯丕賳丕賳 乇賵爻蹖 丌賲賵禺鬲賳丿 賴乇 賲乇丿蹖 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳丿"賲爻蹖丨" 卮賵丿 賵 賴乇 夭賳蹖 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳丿 " 賲丕丿乇 禺丿丕" 亘卮賵丿. 丿乇 賮乇賯賴 賴丕蹖 禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖 ,讴賮 賳賮爻 蹖丕 丕賲鬲賳丕毓 丕夭 乇賵丕亘胤 噩賳爻蹖 夭賳 賵 卮賵賴乇蹖 ,丨蹖賳 丌蹖蹖賳 "卮毓賮" 亘賴 诏賳丕賴讴丕乇蹖 诏乇賵賴蹖" 亘丿賱 賲蹖 卮丿. 讴賴 丿乇 賵丕賯毓 丕蹖賳 "诏賳丕賴 讴丕乇蹖 诏乇賵賴蹖" 毓亘丕乇鬲 亘賵丿 丕夭 乇賵丕亘胤 毓賳丕賳 诏爻蹖禺鬲賴 賲蹖丕賳 丕毓囟丕蹖 丿賵 噩賳爻. 胤亘賯 亘丕賵乇 禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖 賴丕 ,丨蹖賳 賴賲蹖賳"卮毓賮" 賴丕 亘賵丿 讴賴 乇賵丨 丕賱賯丿爻 亘賴 丿乇賵賳 丌賳賴丕 賲蹖 丌賲丿.賵 爻倬爻 丕毓囟丕蹖 賮乇賯賴 亘丕蹖丿 賲蹖 讴賵卮蹖丿賳丿 賴乇趩賴 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丨賵丿 乇丕 丿乇 睾丕賱亘" 賲爻蹖丨 賴丕" 賵 " 賲丕丿乇 禺丿丕 賴丕" 蹖 鬲丕夭賴 鬲氐賵乇 亘讴賳賳丿 賵 丕蹖賳 鬲氐賵蹖乇 賴賲 丿乇 蹖讴 丨丕賱鬲 噩賳賵賳 丌賲蹖夭 乇賵丨蹖 賵 丕丨爻丕爻蹖 丨丕氐賱 賲蹖 卮丿, 丨丕賱鬲蹖 讴賴 賲爻亘亘 丌賳 倬丕蹖讴賵亘蹖 丿爻鬲 噩賲毓蹖 禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖 亘賵丿.
诏乇蹖诏賵乇蹖 丕蹖賮蹖賲賵蹖趩 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丿賴賯丕賳 乇丕賴亘 賵 亘蹖 爻賵丕丿蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 亘賴 丿乇亘丕乇 爻胤賱賳鬲蹖 鬲夭丕乇 賳蹖讴賱丕蹖 乇賵賲丕賳賵賮 丿賵賲 乇丕賴 倬蹖丿丕 讴乇丿. 亘丕 鬲賵噩賴 亘賴 丕胤賱丕毓丕鬲 賲賵噩賵丿 丿乇 讴鬲丕亘 :乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 乇丕賴亘 賲爻蹖丨蹖 丕夭 賮乇賯賴 丕蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲 "禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖" 亘賵丿 讴賴 乇爻賵丕蹖蹖 賴丕蹖 丕禺賱丕賯蹖 夭蹖丕丿蹖 亘賴 亘丕乇 丌賵乇丿. 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 亘丕 賵噩賵丿 丕蹖賳讴賴 讴賲 爻賵丕丿 亘賵丿 鬲賵丕賳爻鬲 賳賮賵匕 夭蹖丕丿蹖 亘乇 鬲夭丕乇蹖賳丕 亘诏匕丕乇丿 賵 丕蹖賳 賳賮賵匕 "毓噩蹖亘" 賵 "鬲丕孬蹖乇 禺丕氐" 丿乇爻鬲 丕夭 乇賵夭蹖 卮乇賵毓 卮丿 讴賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 亘丕 賯丿乇鬲 "卮賮丕亘禺卮蹖" 讴賴 丿丕卮鬲 亘蹖賲丕乇蹖 賴賲賵賮蹖賱蹖 丕賱讴爻蹖 乇賵賲丕賳賵賮 ,倬爻乇 賳蹖讴賱丕蹖 丿賵賲" 乇丕 賲丿丕賵丕 讴乇丿. 丕賱亘鬲賴 丿乇 乇丕亘胤賴 亘丕 卮賮丕亘禺卮蹖 亘賴 丕賱讴爻蹖 亘丕 鬲賵爻賱 亘賴 賯丿乇鬲 賴丕蹖 賲丕賵乇丕蹖蹖 賵 賯丿爻蹖 氐丿 丿乇 氐丿 鬲乇丿蹖丿 賴丕蹖蹖 賵噩賵丿 丿丕卮鬲. 诏賮鬲賴 卮丿賴 賲爻卅賱賴 卮賮丕 亘禺卮蹖 亘賴 丕賱讴爻蹖 丕夭 胤乇蹖賯 "賴蹖倬賳賵鬲蹖夭賲" 氐賵乇鬲 诏乇賮鬲賴. 讴丕乇蹖 讴賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丿乇 丕賳噩丕賲 丌賳 賲賴丕乇鬲 丿丕卮鬲. 趩卮賲丕賳 賳丕賮匕 賵 诏蹖乇丕. 爻賮蹖丿蹖 亘蹖卮 丕夭 丨丿 趩卮賲 賴丕,丿爻鬲丕賳 夭賲禺鬲 丿賴賯丕賳蹖,乇蹖卮 倬乇倬卮鬲 賵 夭蹖丕丿 賵 爻丕丿诏蹖 讴賱丕賲 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賴賲賴 賵 賴賲賴 丿乇 鬲丕孬蹖乇 诏匕丕乇蹖 丕賵 亘乇 丕賮乇丕丿 賳賯卮 毓賲丿賴 丕蹖 丕蹖賮丕 讴乇丿賴 丕賳丿.
乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賲乇蹖丿丕賳 夭蹖丕丿蹖 丿丕卮鬲 讴賴 夭賳丕賳 丕讴孬乇蹖鬲 乇丕 鬲卮讴蹖賱 賲蹖 丿丕丿賳丿. 丕毓鬲乇丕賮丕鬲 鬲讴丕賳 丿賴賳丿賴 亘乇禺蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賲乇蹖丿丕賳 賳卮丕賳诏乇 丕禺賱丕賯蹖丕鬲 賮丕爻丿 賵 爻賵亍 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 噩賳爻蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳 夭賳 賴丕 亘賴 亘賴丕賳賴 亘賴 噩丕 丌賵乇丿賳 丌丿丕亘 "禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖" 丿乇 "倬乇賵賳丿賴" 賲賵噩賵丿 丕爻鬲. 丕毓鬲乇丕賮丕鬲蹖 讴賴 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕賳賯賱丕亘 丕讴鬲亘乇 亘賱卮賵蹖讴 賴丕 鬲賵爻胤 讴賲蹖爻蹖賵賳 賮賵賯 丕賱毓丕丿賴 丿乇 "倬乇賵賳丿賴" 孬亘鬲 賵 囟亘胤" 卮丿賴 .
丕賱讴爻丕賳丿乇丕 賮蹖賵丿賵乇賵賵賳丕 :
丕賱讴爻丕賳丿乇丕(賲賱讴賴) 讴賴 丕毓鬲賯丕丿丕鬲 賵 亘丕賵乇 賴丕蹖 賲匕賴亘蹖 賵 禺乇丕賮蹖 賲鬲毓氐亘丕賳賴 丿丕卮鬲,乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 乇丕 亘賴 賲孬丕亘賴 蹖讴 賮乇丿 賮賵賯 賲賯丿爻 賲蹖 卮賳丕禺鬲 賵 丕毓鬲賯丕丿 丿丕卮鬲 讴賴 丕蹖賳 賲乇丿 禺丿丕 "賲爻蹖丨 乇賵蹖 夭賲蹖賳 " 丕爻鬲. 丿乇 賳鬲蹖噩賴 丕賱讴爻丕賳丿乇丕 讴賴 丌賲賵禺鬲賴 亘賵丿 趩诏賵賳賴 丕蹖賲丕賳 禺賵丿 乇丕 丨賮馗 讴賳丿. 讴賵乇 讴賵乇丕賳賴 卮蹖賮鬲賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 卮丿 賵 丕夭 丕賵 鬲亘毓蹖鬲 賲蹖 讴乇丿. 亘乇丕蹖 丕賱讴爻丕賳丿乇丕 賴蹖趩诏賵賳賴 爻賳丿 賵 賲丿乇讴蹖 賲亘賳蹖 亘乇 賮爻丕丿 丕禺賱丕賯蹖 賵 賳賮賵匕 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賵 丿禺丕賱鬲 丕賵 丿乇 丕賲賵乇 爻蹖丕爻蹖 讴卮賵乇 ,丕毓鬲亘丕乇 賳丿丕卮鬲 賵 亘賴 爻亘亘 丕蹖賲丕賳 讴賵乇讴賵乇丕賳賴 亘賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 ,丿賴賯丕賳 乇丕 丕夭 禺賵丿 丿賵乇 賳讴乇丿,丕夭 丿蹖丿诏丕賴 鬲夭丕乇蹖賳丕 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賲乇丿蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 丕夭 噩丕賳亘 禺丿丕 丌賲丿賴 亘賵丿 賵 丨丕賱 讴賴 丕賱讴爻蹖 丕夭 氐丿賯賴 爻乇蹖 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丕夭 賴賲賵賮蹖賱蹖 賳噩丕鬲 蹖丕賮鬲賴 亘賵丿.趩乇丕 亘丕蹖丿 鬲賴賲鬲 賴丕蹖 丿乇亘丕乇蹖丕賳,賳卮乇蹖丕鬲 賵 賲賯丕賲丕鬲 丨讴賵賲鬲蹖 賵 卮賵乇丕蹖 賯丿爻蹖 乇丕 丿乇 乇丕亘胤賴 亘丕 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 亘丕賵乇 賲蹖 讴乇丿責
乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳:
亘賴 丕蹖賳 鬲乇鬲蹖亘 丿賴賯丕賳 賲賯丿爻,賲爻鬲賯蹖賲丕 亘乇 賲賱讴賴 鬲丕孬蹖乇 賲蹖 诏匕丕卮鬲 賵 賲賱讴賴 亘乇 賳蹖讴賱丕蹖...
丕丿丕乇賴 讴卮賵乇 亘丿爻鬲 蹖讴 丿賴賯丕賳 亘蹖 爻賵丕丿 丕夭 丿賴讴丿賴 倬丕讴乇賵賮爻讴賵蹖賴 丕賮鬲丕丿賴 亘賵丿.蹖讴 賲爻蹖丨蹖 禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖 讴賴 丕丿毓丕 賲蹖 讴乇丿 乇賵丨 賲賯丿爻 丿乇 丕賵 丨賱賵賱 讴乇丿賴.
丌蹖蹖賳 禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖:
禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖 賴丕 亘賴 丿賴賯丕賳丕賳 乇賵爻蹖 丌賲賵禺鬲賳丿 賴乇 賲乇丿蹖 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳丿"賲爻蹖丨" 卮賵丿 賵 賴乇 夭賳蹖 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳丿 " 賲丕丿乇 禺丿丕" 亘卮賵丿. 丿乇 賮乇賯賴 賴丕蹖 禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖 ,讴賮 賳賮爻 蹖丕 丕賲鬲賳丕毓 丕夭 乇賵丕亘胤 噩賳爻蹖 夭賳 賵 卮賵賴乇蹖 ,丨蹖賳 丌蹖蹖賳 "卮毓賮" 亘賴 诏賳丕賴讴丕乇蹖 诏乇賵賴蹖" 亘丿賱 賲蹖 卮丿. 讴賴 丿乇 賵丕賯毓 丕蹖賳 "诏賳丕賴 讴丕乇蹖 诏乇賵賴蹖" 毓亘丕乇鬲 亘賵丿 丕夭 乇賵丕亘胤 毓賳丕賳 诏爻蹖禺鬲賴 賲蹖丕賳 丕毓囟丕蹖 丿賵 噩賳爻. 胤亘賯 亘丕賵乇 禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖 賴丕 ,丨蹖賳 賴賲蹖賳"卮毓賮" 賴丕 亘賵丿 讴賴 乇賵丨 丕賱賯丿爻 亘賴 丿乇賵賳 丌賳賴丕 賲蹖 丌賲丿.賵 爻倬爻 丕毓囟丕蹖 賮乇賯賴 亘丕蹖丿 賲蹖 讴賵卮蹖丿賳丿 賴乇趩賴 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丨賵丿 乇丕 丿乇 睾丕賱亘" 賲爻蹖丨 賴丕" 賵 " 賲丕丿乇 禺丿丕 賴丕" 蹖 鬲丕夭賴 鬲氐賵乇 亘讴賳賳丿 賵 丕蹖賳 鬲氐賵蹖乇 賴賲 丿乇 蹖讴 丨丕賱鬲 噩賳賵賳 丌賲蹖夭 乇賵丨蹖 賵 丕丨爻丕爻蹖 丨丕氐賱 賲蹖 卮丿, 丨丕賱鬲蹖 讴賴 賲爻亘亘 丌賳 倬丕蹖讴賵亘蹖 丿爻鬲 噩賲毓蹖 禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖 亘賵丿.
January 26, 2020
乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳! 丕蹖賳 賲乇丿讴 倬乇 丨丕卮蹖賴! 賵賯鬲蹖 賲蹖诏賳 趩賴 趩蹖夭蹖 賳爻禺賴 禺丕賳丿丕賳 乇賵賲丕賳賵賮 賴丕 乇賵 倬蹖趩蹖丿 亘蹖 亘乇賵 亘乇诏乇丿 賲蹖诏賳 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳! 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 蹖賴 丿賴賯丕賳 亘蹖 爻賵丕丿 賵 毓蹖丕卮 賵 卮賴賵鬲 倬乇爻鬲 亘賵丿賴 讴賴 蹖賴賵 賲蹖夭賳賴 亘賴 爻乇卮 賵 乇丕賴 賲爻蹖丨 賵 丿乇 倬蹖卮 賲蹖诏蹖乇賴 賵 賲蹖卮賴 賲乇丿 禺丿丕! 丌賵丕夭賴 倬蹖丿丕 賲蹖讴賳賴 賵 賯丿乇鬲 卮賮丕 賵 倬蹖卮鈥屭堐屰� 賳氐蹖亘卮 賲蹖卮賴 賵 賲爻蹖乇卮 賲蹖禺賵乇賴 亘賴 讴丕禺 爻賱胤賳鬲蹖 鬲夭丕乇賴丕 賵 賲賱讴賴 讴賴 賴賲蹖卮賴 賲賳鬲馗乇 倬蹖丕賲亘乇蹖 亘賵丿賴 讴賴 丿乇 乇丕賴 爻賱胤賳鬲 亘乇 丕蹖賳 爻乇夭賲蹖賳 倬賴賳丕賵乇 讴賴 禺丿丕 賲爻卅賵賱蹖鬲卮 乇賵 乇賵蹖 丿賵卮 賲賱讴賴 賵 鬲夭丕乇 诏匕丕卮鬲賴 賴賲乇丕賴蹖 讴賳賴 卮蹖賮鬲賴 丕蹖賳 賲乇丿 禺丿丕 賲蹖卮賴 鬲丕 丕賵賳噩丕 讴賴 鬲賲丕賲 毓夭賱 賵 賳氐亘 賲乇丿丕賳 爻蹖丕爻鬲 賵 噩賳诏 賲蹖 丕賮鬲賴 丿爻鬲 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丕蹖賳 丿賴賯丕賳 亘蹖 爻賵丕丿 賵 卮賴賵鬲 倬乇爻鬲 賵 賲匕賴亘蹖. 倬蹖乇賵丕賳 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 毓賲賵賲丕 夭賳 賴丕 亘賵丿賳丿! 夭賳丕賳蹖 讴賴 亘賴 丿賱蹖賱 讴賲亘賵丿賴丕蹖蹖 丿乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱 賲毓噩夭賴 亘賵丿賳丿. 賵 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 亘賴 乇丕丨鬲蹖 賵 亘丿賵賳 賴蹖趩 賲賯丕賵賲鬲蹖 丕夭 噩丕賳亘 夭賳 賴丕 亘賴 賲賯氐賵丿 卮賵賲卮 賲蹖 乇爻蹖丿 賵 夭賳 賴丕 賴賲 亘賴 禺蹖丕賱 丕蹖賳讴賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賲乇丿 禺丿丕爻鬲 禺賵卮丨丕賱 亘賵丿賳丿.
賵 賲賱讴賴 丕夭 賴賲趩蹖賳 丌丿賲蹖 丿乇 丕賲賵乇 賲賲賱讴鬲 丿丕乇蹖 乇丕賴賳賲丕蹖蹖 賲蹖 禺賵丕爻鬲 賵 賳馗乇卮 賲賴乇 鬲丕蹖蹖丿 亘賵丿 賵 丕蹖賳 賴丕 诏賳丕賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賳亘賵丿. 亘賱讴賴 賲賯氐乇 鬲賲丕賲 丕蹖賳 賴丕 禺賵丿 卮禺氐 賲鬲賵賴賲 賲賱讴賴 賵 囟毓蹖賮 丕賱賳賮爻 亘賵丿賳 禺賵丿 鬲夭丕乇 亘賵丿 讴賴 賳鬲賵賳爻鬲 丿乇 亘乇丕亘乇 禺賵丕爻鬲賴 賴丕蹖 賲賱讴賴 亘丕蹖爻鬲賴.
丿乇亘丕乇賴 讴鬲丕亘 噩賱丿 丕賵賱卮 噩匕丕亘 亘賵丿 賵 丕胤賱丕毓丕鬲 禺賵亘蹖 丿丕卮鬲(丿乇 趩丕倬 噩丿蹖丿 丿賵 噩賱丿 卮丿賴貙 鬲丕 賮氐賱 9 蹖丕 10) 賵賱蹖 噩賱丿 丿賵賲 禺蹖賱蹖 噩夭蹖蹖丕鬲 亘蹖 丕賴賲蹖鬲 丿丕卮鬲 賵 禺爻鬲賴 讴賳賳丿賴 亘賵丿. 賱夭賵賲蹖 賳丿丕卮鬲 亘丿賵賳蹖賲 賲爻丐賱 賮賱丕賳 讴賱蹖爻丕 毓賵囟 卮丿賴 丕蹖賳 丕賵賲丿賴 丕賵賳 乇賮鬲賴 賵....
丕诏賴 丕蹖賳 噩夭卅蹖丕鬲 亘蹖 丕賴賲蹖鬲 賳亘賵丿 賵 讴鬲丕亘 噩賲毓 噩賵乇 鬲乇 賲蹖卮丿 賱匕鬲 亘蹖卮鬲乇蹖 賲蹖亘乇丿賲.
賵 賲賱讴賴 丕夭 賴賲趩蹖賳 丌丿賲蹖 丿乇 丕賲賵乇 賲賲賱讴鬲 丿丕乇蹖 乇丕賴賳賲丕蹖蹖 賲蹖 禺賵丕爻鬲 賵 賳馗乇卮 賲賴乇 鬲丕蹖蹖丿 亘賵丿 賵 丕蹖賳 賴丕 诏賳丕賴 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賳亘賵丿. 亘賱讴賴 賲賯氐乇 鬲賲丕賲 丕蹖賳 賴丕 禺賵丿 卮禺氐 賲鬲賵賴賲 賲賱讴賴 賵 囟毓蹖賮 丕賱賳賮爻 亘賵丿賳 禺賵丿 鬲夭丕乇 亘賵丿 讴賴 賳鬲賵賳爻鬲 丿乇 亘乇丕亘乇 禺賵丕爻鬲賴 賴丕蹖 賲賱讴賴 亘丕蹖爻鬲賴.
丿乇亘丕乇賴 讴鬲丕亘 噩賱丿 丕賵賱卮 噩匕丕亘 亘賵丿 賵 丕胤賱丕毓丕鬲 禺賵亘蹖 丿丕卮鬲(丿乇 趩丕倬 噩丿蹖丿 丿賵 噩賱丿 卮丿賴貙 鬲丕 賮氐賱 9 蹖丕 10) 賵賱蹖 噩賱丿 丿賵賲 禺蹖賱蹖 噩夭蹖蹖丕鬲 亘蹖 丕賴賲蹖鬲 丿丕卮鬲 賵 禺爻鬲賴 讴賳賳丿賴 亘賵丿. 賱夭賵賲蹖 賳丿丕卮鬲 亘丿賵賳蹖賲 賲爻丐賱 賮賱丕賳 讴賱蹖爻丕 毓賵囟 卮丿賴 丕蹖賳 丕賵賲丿賴 丕賵賳 乇賮鬲賴 賵....
丕诏賴 丕蹖賳 噩夭卅蹖丕鬲 亘蹖 丕賴賲蹖鬲 賳亘賵丿 賵 讴鬲丕亘 噩賲毓 噩賵乇 鬲乇 賲蹖卮丿 賱匕鬲 亘蹖卮鬲乇蹖 賲蹖亘乇丿賲.
October 11, 2024
禺亘 禺蹖賱蹖 禺賵卮丨丕賱賲 讴賴 亘丕賱丕禺乇賴 鬲賵賳爻鬲賲 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 鬲賲賵賲 讴賳賲貨 賲丿鬲鈥屬囏� 亘賵丿 讴賴 賲蹖鈥屫堌ж池� 亘禺賵賳賲卮 賵 禺賵賳丿賳卮 賴賲 禺蹖賱蹖 胤賵賱 讴卮蹖丿貨 趩賵賳 賴賲 禺蹖賱蹖 胤賵賱丕賳蹖 賵 賲賮氐賱 亘賵丿 賴賲 丕蹖賳讴賴 讴鬲丕亘蹖 賳亘賵丿 讴賴 亘卮賴 倬蹖賵爻鬲賴 禺賵賳丿卮.
乇賵爻蹖賴 丕夭 丕賵賳 讴卮賵乇丕蹖蹖賴 讴賴 鬲丕乇蹖禺蹖 賲賲賱賵亍 丕夭 丨賵丕丿孬 噩匕丕亘 賵 禺賵賳丿賳蹖 丿丕乇賴 讴賴 賮讴乇 賲蹖讴賳賲 丕蹖賳 賲賵囟賵毓 亘乇丌賲丿賴 丕夭 丕賵賳 跇賳 賳蹖賲賴 丌爻蹖丕蹖蹖卮 賴爻鬲 賵 丌賯丕蹖 丕丿賵乇丕丿 乇丕跇蹖賳爻讴蹖 丿乇 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳: 丕亘賱蹖爻 蹖丕 賯丿蹖爻 ( 讴賴 賵丕賯毓丕 賮讴乇 賳讴賳賲 毓賳賵丕賳蹖 亘賴鬲乇 賵 賲賳丕爻亘鈥屫� 賲蹖卮丿 亘乇丕蹖 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丕賳鬲禺丕亘 讴乇丿) 丿爻鬲 亘賴 讴丕乇 亘夭乇诏蹖 賲蹖夭賳賴 賵 丿乇賲賵乇丿 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賲乇賲賵夭鬲乇蹖賳 卮禺氐蹖鬲鈥屬囏й� 鬲賲丕賲 丿賵乇丕賳 賲胤丕賱亘 賳爻亘鬲丕 噩丕賲毓蹖 乇賵 亘蹖丕賳 賲蹖讴賳賴
乇賵爻蹖賴 丕夭 丕賵賳 讴卮賵乇丕蹖蹖賴 讴賴 鬲丕乇蹖禺蹖 賲賲賱賵亍 丕夭 丨賵丕丿孬 噩匕丕亘 賵 禺賵賳丿賳蹖 丿丕乇賴 讴賴 賮讴乇 賲蹖讴賳賲 丕蹖賳 賲賵囟賵毓 亘乇丌賲丿賴 丕夭 丕賵賳 跇賳 賳蹖賲賴 丌爻蹖丕蹖蹖卮 賴爻鬲 賵 丌賯丕蹖 丕丿賵乇丕丿 乇丕跇蹖賳爻讴蹖 丿乇 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳: 丕亘賱蹖爻 蹖丕 賯丿蹖爻 ( 讴賴 賵丕賯毓丕 賮讴乇 賳讴賳賲 毓賳賵丕賳蹖 亘賴鬲乇 賵 賲賳丕爻亘鈥屫� 賲蹖卮丿 亘乇丕蹖 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丕賳鬲禺丕亘 讴乇丿) 丿爻鬲 亘賴 讴丕乇 亘夭乇诏蹖 賲蹖夭賳賴 賵 丿乇賲賵乇丿 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賲乇賲賵夭鬲乇蹖賳 卮禺氐蹖鬲鈥屬囏й� 鬲賲丕賲 丿賵乇丕賳 賲胤丕賱亘 賳爻亘鬲丕 噩丕賲毓蹖 乇賵 亘蹖丕賳 賲蹖讴賳賴
January 2, 2021
I have read a lot of books on Russian history, including famous or infamous people whichever way you want to look at it, but this is probably the worst. I couldn鈥檛 get into it; this is probably the reason I took so long reading and I was reading other books aside from that. It was easy to get distracted.
I鈥檓 not disputing the author鈥檚 sources but a lot of them seem to have come from the File which I capitalise as that is how it is referred to in the book.
Okay there are other sources where he gets letters etc but it didn鈥檛 grab me. I spent too long reading it.
I鈥檓 not disputing the author鈥檚 sources but a lot of them seem to have come from the File which I capitalise as that is how it is referred to in the book.
Okay there are other sources where he gets letters etc but it didn鈥檛 grab me. I spent too long reading it.
August 31, 2019
'The Rasputin File' by Edvard Radzinsky is one of those books which have a surface tone, in its English translation, of being a 'lightweight' celebrity expose. However, this book is dense with facts backed up with documentation. It is an academic biography. The author is a television personality as well as a historian who is known for choosing as his subjects those people who reside on the scandalous scale of history's judgement. Radzindky reveals Grigory Efimovich Rasputin (1869 - 1916) like a character in a mystery novel, with newly discovered historical documentation, peeling back the layers of the mystery of Rasputin like an onion.
Quoted from the above New York Times link:
"What makes ''The Rasputin File'' really fresh are the long-lost or suppressed documents that Radzinsky has managed to bring to light. The core of this material derives from the investigation of the Romanov court set in motion in 1917 by the Russian provisional government during the brief interval between the fall of the czar in March and the Bolshevik Revolution in November. The ''Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry for the Investigation of Illegal Acts by Ministers and Other Responsible Persons of the Czarist Regime'' interrogated all the leading figures of the old government, and 12 sections of proceedings (initially edited by the poet Aleksandr Blok) were eventually published by the Soviet authorities in 1926 and 1927 in seven hefty volumes (not ''seven little . . . pitiful volumes,'' as Radzinsky oddly describes them). However, a ''13th section'' of the inquiry, devoted to uncovering the ''dark forces'' behind the czar by interviewing the lesser lights around Rasputin and the court, was not revealed until 1964, when the chief investigator's summary report was finally published in a Soviet journal. Radzinsky got into the archives of the commission in the 1980's, but to his surprise he found the transcripts of the 13th section interrogations missing."
"Then, in 1995, the documents mysteriously turned up at a Sotheby's auction in London. They were bought, sight unseen, by the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who turned them over to Radzinsky. Sotheby's confirms the transaction, but cannot reveal the provenance of the material."
"Radzinsky is a Russian playwright and television personality, as well as the author of books on Nicholas II and Stalin, and he likes to seek out the sensational. The question naturally arises as to the authenticity, accuracy or completeness of the Sotheby's documents and of Radzinsky's use of them. He does not mention any plans to publish the whole file, and in the present work he only quotes extracts to advance his story. To be sure, where these excerpts occasionally overlap with the published interrogations, they track closely. Judson Rosengrant's translation from the Russian is fluent and fast-paced, and there is no reason to question its reliability."
Radzinsky includes an in-depth section of Documentary Sources as well as a Bibliography and Index in the back of this book. I believe his source material is legit. But the author's conjectures and guesses? That will be up to you and me to filter, gentle reader.
Of course, the same difficulties which bedevil every biographer who attempts to write about Rasputin also force Radzinsky to make some educated guesses. Much is not known about Rasputin's youth, especially of his childhood and the early period of time when he married at age eighteen. What is known, most of what facts of his life which have been illuminated by documents, reports generated by police spying at the time, interviews, diaries, letters and newspapers, has been confused with myths, political agendas, the shame of having been friends or having involvement in Rasputin's orgies, and by the passage of time with a communist revolution or two in between then and now ('The Rasputin File' was published in 2000).
Information about Rasputin has been researched often under a secretive Communist government which believes in a doctrine of erasing inconvenient history. Radzinsky must use the general knowledge we all have of usual human behaviors to fill in some of the gaps in the document trail with educated surmises.
Rasputin shows himself as a complex man with extraordinary swings of temperament - an extreme personality who seems to not have been centered or evenly balanced within himself (my opinion). He seemed to swing wildly between trying to live above physical demands and preaching the peace of living entirely within the love of God, while constantly failing to defeat his body's resulting escalated desires for sex and fleshly satisfactions. There are police interviews with prostitutes at whom Rasputin, after hiring, simply looked at naked without touching, leaving them afterwords - what, testing his willpower to resist? There are reports that he stood in freezing wet weather in fields for hours, not moving, or being bitten by mosquitoes without allowing himself to respond.
Apparently, the Rasputin File, which was developed from investigations of various Russian secret police organizations, is legitimate. It contains new letters, copies of diaries, and reports which were once known to exist, mentioned in other documentation, but were lost or suppressed - until Radzinsky received this mysterious box of papers from Mstislav Rostropovich, who got them from Sotheby's.
It is known Rasputin did indeed, at least for awhile, truly behave like a wandering ascetic monk of sorts looking for God, seeking out religious instruction. He picked up the teachings of many primitive village and serf religions in his walkabout. However, he deserted his wife and three children, walking away from his village home in Siberia, to seek out God.
Everyone agrees Rasputin had psychological power over Nicholas and Alexandra, the last tsar and tsarina of Russia, especially Alexandra. Everybody believes he gained this power over them because he convinced the couple he was magically keeping their son's disease of hemophilia from killing him. He DID seem to be able to 'know' people from the inside out, psychologically and physically, even predicting the onset of diseases, such as a kidney failure which actually occurred years later to a visitor who met him. Everybody agrees Rasputin used religion and superstition to convince the Romanovs. Eventually, through his influence on Alexandra, he caused Nicholas to make some disastrous political decisions - among them, removing from office a number of former close confidants and advisors who were incensed by their demotion.
Other aristocrats and high church officials did not like Rasputin much, especially those who had liked him at first. Rasputin was uneducated. He was of the lower classes, and he was rumored to be a frequent consumer of prostitutes and alcohol. It was also known he was having orgies with many women who ecstatically praised and surrounded him wherever he went. Many of the women testified he never drank, and did not even eat sweets, though.
Some Moscow/St. Petersburg high church mentors who took Rasputin in and recommended him to others - for awhile - soon discovered Rasputin appeared to be following some theology of his own making, suspiciously similar to the teachings of a disreputable village Christian sect called the Khlysty (whips).
The Khlysts believed in occasional orgies (called 'rejoicing'), held in order to impregnate women with 'Christs', sometimes flogging themselves, and inducing trances from lengthy whirling dances until the Holy Spirit entered them and led them to sex with 'Mothers of God'.
"As in the Khlyst 'arcs' (which Rasputin had previously experienced) where they [Rasputin's cult] piously believed that it was through 'group sinning' that they would rid themselves of the demon of lechery. (Yurievsky presented the results of his investigation to Bishop Alexis of Tobolsk, Molchanov's father, and the bishop naturally threw it in the fire and ordered the priest to drop the matter.)"
Quoted from page 239
More on Rasputin's beliefs:
"And Beletsky, the chief of the Department of Police, testified before the Extraordinary Commission that Rasputin 'explained to his neophytes in my presence that it was by absorbing into his own membrane the sins he was struggling against...my absorbing filth and vice into himself, that a person achieved the transformation of his soul washed clean by his sins'. Or more accurately, washed clean not by his sins but by the constant repenting of sin. For repentance involved great torment and suffering and prayer....And they were the reason he would say to Zhukovskaya, 'Without sin there is no life, because if there is no repentance, there is no joy.'
"It was in fact about this that Lokhtina was speaking when she confirmed in the File some words of hers published by Iliodor [Lokhtina called Iliodor "Christ" and Rasputin "Lord of hosts"]: 'For a saint, everything is holy. That Father Grigory was like everyone else, then? People make it a sin, but he by that self-same sin only sanctified you and brought down upon you the grace of God.'"
"Nevertheless, Rasputin suffered in that first 'holy period'. He felt that lust had not been conquered, but that it conquered him. Thus came into being the Rasputin condition that recalls Dostoevsky - continuous suffering from a consciousness of one's own sinfulness, continuous appeals to God with prayer and repentance."
Quoted from page 240
"Where suffering from repentance transforms sin into Love."
"Love was the chief thing for him. Love everywhere overflowing."
"He bore a responsibility for them and was afraid that someone might corrupt them. For he sincerely believed that in sleeping with them, he had rid them of sin."
Quoted from page 241
Is this why Rasputin was promiscuous? Was he a Khlysty? Who knows? Evidence shows he definitely incorporated some Khlyst beliefs into his religious teachings. Why did the tzar and tzarina refuse to believe the police, their friends, their advisors, the newspapers, even, after the stories about Razputin began to be published, or when everyone came to the palace telling stories about Rasputin's scandalous 'drinking orgies'? Why did the royal couple seemingly not have any politically-savvy brain cells? Why did they both discount the disgust of their supportive government officials, who were growing mutinous exponentially? Why were they oblivious to the brewing rebellion of a discontented populace, suffering deeply from being the 99% of the population which was poor, while the extravagantly wealthy 1% were openly corrupt and unjust?
From reading this book, imho the two monarchs were living inside a religious bubble induced by panic. They had to fight two defensive wars caused by aggressive nations. They were almost completely isolated from people and the public because of their fear of the ongoing Russian revolutionary terrorism which had already killed several of their relatives by bombings and bullets.
The royal couple were already swamped and drowning intellectually and emotionally, partially from a strong faith in a barely transformed eastern Christianity built on top of many pagan Russian superstitions, and partially because of a rigid class structure dictating their maintenance of a class superiority over their peasants. The two were mentally ill-equipped for the new philosophical, educational and technological 20th-century modernity of their changing times, imho. This closed and isolated Russian aristocratic palace had barely moved from the feudalism mores of the 17th century. The political pressures on the Romanov tsar and Russian leadership were enormous.
And, a description in the book of an amazing Russian belief ...
"Holy fools are a Russian phenomenon...Yet in Muscovy the voice of the holy fool was taken as the voice of God. [Russians developed this belief in Holy Fools as special agents from God from the Bible, Corinthians 1, 4:10 and 3:19; and Mark 8:34]"
page 242
"As G. Shavelsky, the head chaplain of the Imperial army and navy, wrote, 'On the tsarina's desk was the book Sainted Holy Fools of the Russian Church, with her marginal notes next to the passages where the sexual dissoluteness of the holy fools was discussed.' Alexandra believed Rasputin to be a blessed Holy Fool.
page 244
In 1914, Raputin appeared to have a crisis of faith, maybe brought on by boredom with sex without solving his sense of the mystery of God's salvation? World War I starting (he hated war)? The first known assassination attempt on his life? Anyway, he began to drink, heavily, for real for the first time, and went to a professional hypnotist to learn the art of hypnotism.
Rasputin was definitely used as a political rallying point for the tsar's enemies and competitors for control of the government. The presence of Rasputin and his influence over the German-born Alexandra was a powerful divisive tool used by the various Russian plotters and revolutionaries surrounding the Russian court! There were many plots, according to the documents described in this book.
Rasputin was only a crude but dangerously powerful televangelist in my opinion, a type of person America polishes into a more shiny television star. But in Russian society, he was an evil bogeyman - the Devil's minion. After the Revolution, anyone found that was connected to him was put to death.
'The Rasputin File' is of a writing style which annoyed me at first, but I realized after awhile it fits the slippery and sometimes obscure nature of the history of the subject. The somewhat disorganized explanations of the events in Rasputin's lifetime I originally felt the book to have, are because, I think, of the involved mysteries and contradictions of background facts and guesses needing to be told, or the need to put stuff into some ordered timeline which is relevant. So many witnesses (thousands) wrote a sentence here regarding a meeting or there of an impression, or of part of a story, they heard (plus the Romanov 'family' is huge, going back in time and interconnected for generations). Somehow Radzinsky stitches each disconnected clue, letter or a mention of an event together to reveal at last the entire sequence of an incident, or at least helping to shape the event through reasonable guesses or assumptions.
The author provides readers with a genealogy chart, and a list of connected characters as well, which was very useful if one wants to follow exactly the stitches the author knits together. I tend to be more holistic in my reading, so I kinda blew by the scholarly knitpicking, and kept moving forward. It worked for me.
Quoted from the above New York Times link:
"What makes ''The Rasputin File'' really fresh are the long-lost or suppressed documents that Radzinsky has managed to bring to light. The core of this material derives from the investigation of the Romanov court set in motion in 1917 by the Russian provisional government during the brief interval between the fall of the czar in March and the Bolshevik Revolution in November. The ''Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry for the Investigation of Illegal Acts by Ministers and Other Responsible Persons of the Czarist Regime'' interrogated all the leading figures of the old government, and 12 sections of proceedings (initially edited by the poet Aleksandr Blok) were eventually published by the Soviet authorities in 1926 and 1927 in seven hefty volumes (not ''seven little . . . pitiful volumes,'' as Radzinsky oddly describes them). However, a ''13th section'' of the inquiry, devoted to uncovering the ''dark forces'' behind the czar by interviewing the lesser lights around Rasputin and the court, was not revealed until 1964, when the chief investigator's summary report was finally published in a Soviet journal. Radzinsky got into the archives of the commission in the 1980's, but to his surprise he found the transcripts of the 13th section interrogations missing."
"Then, in 1995, the documents mysteriously turned up at a Sotheby's auction in London. They were bought, sight unseen, by the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who turned them over to Radzinsky. Sotheby's confirms the transaction, but cannot reveal the provenance of the material."
"Radzinsky is a Russian playwright and television personality, as well as the author of books on Nicholas II and Stalin, and he likes to seek out the sensational. The question naturally arises as to the authenticity, accuracy or completeness of the Sotheby's documents and of Radzinsky's use of them. He does not mention any plans to publish the whole file, and in the present work he only quotes extracts to advance his story. To be sure, where these excerpts occasionally overlap with the published interrogations, they track closely. Judson Rosengrant's translation from the Russian is fluent and fast-paced, and there is no reason to question its reliability."
Radzinsky includes an in-depth section of Documentary Sources as well as a Bibliography and Index in the back of this book. I believe his source material is legit. But the author's conjectures and guesses? That will be up to you and me to filter, gentle reader.
Of course, the same difficulties which bedevil every biographer who attempts to write about Rasputin also force Radzinsky to make some educated guesses. Much is not known about Rasputin's youth, especially of his childhood and the early period of time when he married at age eighteen. What is known, most of what facts of his life which have been illuminated by documents, reports generated by police spying at the time, interviews, diaries, letters and newspapers, has been confused with myths, political agendas, the shame of having been friends or having involvement in Rasputin's orgies, and by the passage of time with a communist revolution or two in between then and now ('The Rasputin File' was published in 2000).
Information about Rasputin has been researched often under a secretive Communist government which believes in a doctrine of erasing inconvenient history. Radzinsky must use the general knowledge we all have of usual human behaviors to fill in some of the gaps in the document trail with educated surmises.
Rasputin shows himself as a complex man with extraordinary swings of temperament - an extreme personality who seems to not have been centered or evenly balanced within himself (my opinion). He seemed to swing wildly between trying to live above physical demands and preaching the peace of living entirely within the love of God, while constantly failing to defeat his body's resulting escalated desires for sex and fleshly satisfactions. There are police interviews with prostitutes at whom Rasputin, after hiring, simply looked at naked without touching, leaving them afterwords - what, testing his willpower to resist? There are reports that he stood in freezing wet weather in fields for hours, not moving, or being bitten by mosquitoes without allowing himself to respond.
Apparently, the Rasputin File, which was developed from investigations of various Russian secret police organizations, is legitimate. It contains new letters, copies of diaries, and reports which were once known to exist, mentioned in other documentation, but were lost or suppressed - until Radzinsky received this mysterious box of papers from Mstislav Rostropovich, who got them from Sotheby's.
It is known Rasputin did indeed, at least for awhile, truly behave like a wandering ascetic monk of sorts looking for God, seeking out religious instruction. He picked up the teachings of many primitive village and serf religions in his walkabout. However, he deserted his wife and three children, walking away from his village home in Siberia, to seek out God.
Everyone agrees Rasputin had psychological power over Nicholas and Alexandra, the last tsar and tsarina of Russia, especially Alexandra. Everybody believes he gained this power over them because he convinced the couple he was magically keeping their son's disease of hemophilia from killing him. He DID seem to be able to 'know' people from the inside out, psychologically and physically, even predicting the onset of diseases, such as a kidney failure which actually occurred years later to a visitor who met him. Everybody agrees Rasputin used religion and superstition to convince the Romanovs. Eventually, through his influence on Alexandra, he caused Nicholas to make some disastrous political decisions - among them, removing from office a number of former close confidants and advisors who were incensed by their demotion.
Other aristocrats and high church officials did not like Rasputin much, especially those who had liked him at first. Rasputin was uneducated. He was of the lower classes, and he was rumored to be a frequent consumer of prostitutes and alcohol. It was also known he was having orgies with many women who ecstatically praised and surrounded him wherever he went. Many of the women testified he never drank, and did not even eat sweets, though.
Some Moscow/St. Petersburg high church mentors who took Rasputin in and recommended him to others - for awhile - soon discovered Rasputin appeared to be following some theology of his own making, suspiciously similar to the teachings of a disreputable village Christian sect called the Khlysty (whips).
The Khlysts believed in occasional orgies (called 'rejoicing'), held in order to impregnate women with 'Christs', sometimes flogging themselves, and inducing trances from lengthy whirling dances until the Holy Spirit entered them and led them to sex with 'Mothers of God'.
"As in the Khlyst 'arcs' (which Rasputin had previously experienced) where they [Rasputin's cult] piously believed that it was through 'group sinning' that they would rid themselves of the demon of lechery. (Yurievsky presented the results of his investigation to Bishop Alexis of Tobolsk, Molchanov's father, and the bishop naturally threw it in the fire and ordered the priest to drop the matter.)"
Quoted from page 239
More on Rasputin's beliefs:
"And Beletsky, the chief of the Department of Police, testified before the Extraordinary Commission that Rasputin 'explained to his neophytes in my presence that it was by absorbing into his own membrane the sins he was struggling against...my absorbing filth and vice into himself, that a person achieved the transformation of his soul washed clean by his sins'. Or more accurately, washed clean not by his sins but by the constant repenting of sin. For repentance involved great torment and suffering and prayer....And they were the reason he would say to Zhukovskaya, 'Without sin there is no life, because if there is no repentance, there is no joy.'
"It was in fact about this that Lokhtina was speaking when she confirmed in the File some words of hers published by Iliodor [Lokhtina called Iliodor "Christ" and Rasputin "Lord of hosts"]: 'For a saint, everything is holy. That Father Grigory was like everyone else, then? People make it a sin, but he by that self-same sin only sanctified you and brought down upon you the grace of God.'"
"Nevertheless, Rasputin suffered in that first 'holy period'. He felt that lust had not been conquered, but that it conquered him. Thus came into being the Rasputin condition that recalls Dostoevsky - continuous suffering from a consciousness of one's own sinfulness, continuous appeals to God with prayer and repentance."
Quoted from page 240
"Where suffering from repentance transforms sin into Love."
"Love was the chief thing for him. Love everywhere overflowing."
"He bore a responsibility for them and was afraid that someone might corrupt them. For he sincerely believed that in sleeping with them, he had rid them of sin."
Quoted from page 241
Is this why Rasputin was promiscuous? Was he a Khlysty? Who knows? Evidence shows he definitely incorporated some Khlyst beliefs into his religious teachings. Why did the tzar and tzarina refuse to believe the police, their friends, their advisors, the newspapers, even, after the stories about Razputin began to be published, or when everyone came to the palace telling stories about Rasputin's scandalous 'drinking orgies'? Why did the royal couple seemingly not have any politically-savvy brain cells? Why did they both discount the disgust of their supportive government officials, who were growing mutinous exponentially? Why were they oblivious to the brewing rebellion of a discontented populace, suffering deeply from being the 99% of the population which was poor, while the extravagantly wealthy 1% were openly corrupt and unjust?
From reading this book, imho the two monarchs were living inside a religious bubble induced by panic. They had to fight two defensive wars caused by aggressive nations. They were almost completely isolated from people and the public because of their fear of the ongoing Russian revolutionary terrorism which had already killed several of their relatives by bombings and bullets.
The royal couple were already swamped and drowning intellectually and emotionally, partially from a strong faith in a barely transformed eastern Christianity built on top of many pagan Russian superstitions, and partially because of a rigid class structure dictating their maintenance of a class superiority over their peasants. The two were mentally ill-equipped for the new philosophical, educational and technological 20th-century modernity of their changing times, imho. This closed and isolated Russian aristocratic palace had barely moved from the feudalism mores of the 17th century. The political pressures on the Romanov tsar and Russian leadership were enormous.
And, a description in the book of an amazing Russian belief ...
"Holy fools are a Russian phenomenon...Yet in Muscovy the voice of the holy fool was taken as the voice of God. [Russians developed this belief in Holy Fools as special agents from God from the Bible, Corinthians 1, 4:10 and 3:19; and Mark 8:34]"
page 242
"As G. Shavelsky, the head chaplain of the Imperial army and navy, wrote, 'On the tsarina's desk was the book Sainted Holy Fools of the Russian Church, with her marginal notes next to the passages where the sexual dissoluteness of the holy fools was discussed.' Alexandra believed Rasputin to be a blessed Holy Fool.
page 244
In 1914, Raputin appeared to have a crisis of faith, maybe brought on by boredom with sex without solving his sense of the mystery of God's salvation? World War I starting (he hated war)? The first known assassination attempt on his life? Anyway, he began to drink, heavily, for real for the first time, and went to a professional hypnotist to learn the art of hypnotism.
Rasputin was definitely used as a political rallying point for the tsar's enemies and competitors for control of the government. The presence of Rasputin and his influence over the German-born Alexandra was a powerful divisive tool used by the various Russian plotters and revolutionaries surrounding the Russian court! There were many plots, according to the documents described in this book.
Rasputin was only a crude but dangerously powerful televangelist in my opinion, a type of person America polishes into a more shiny television star. But in Russian society, he was an evil bogeyman - the Devil's minion. After the Revolution, anyone found that was connected to him was put to death.
'The Rasputin File' is of a writing style which annoyed me at first, but I realized after awhile it fits the slippery and sometimes obscure nature of the history of the subject. The somewhat disorganized explanations of the events in Rasputin's lifetime I originally felt the book to have, are because, I think, of the involved mysteries and contradictions of background facts and guesses needing to be told, or the need to put stuff into some ordered timeline which is relevant. So many witnesses (thousands) wrote a sentence here regarding a meeting or there of an impression, or of part of a story, they heard (plus the Romanov 'family' is huge, going back in time and interconnected for generations). Somehow Radzinsky stitches each disconnected clue, letter or a mention of an event together to reveal at last the entire sequence of an incident, or at least helping to shape the event through reasonable guesses or assumptions.
The author provides readers with a genealogy chart, and a list of connected characters as well, which was very useful if one wants to follow exactly the stitches the author knits together. I tend to be more holistic in my reading, so I kinda blew by the scholarly knitpicking, and kept moving forward. It worked for me.
July 26, 2007
I read this book for a friend and even though my interest on the topic was minimal at the beginning of the work I was completely drawn into the entire Russian empire at that time by the time I was finished. The author gives you more than just a Rasputin biography here which is the main pulling point of this work of non-fiction; he gives you a background and history lesson of the entire Russian court and all of the key players in history at that time rather than just following the path of Rasputin and examining the myths that surrounded the man. He actually DEBUNKS the myths, kind of like an early 20-th century special episode of Mythbusters, but without the funny looking middle-aged men and a lot less explosions. The report this book ends up turning into is so extensive that I had no questions remaining in my mind at the end of the book, I had a thorough understanding and even opinion on the man as well as the Russian court and man that was just something I did not expect to even want to think about at all.
August 19, 2021
Once you are a believer, you cannot be a seeker!
亘丕賵乇 噩丕賴賱丕賳賴 賲賱讴賴 亘賴 賲乇丿 禺丿丕 (乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳) 讴賴 鬲賳賴丕 乇丕賴 乇爻鬲诏丕乇蹖 丨讴賵賲鬲 鬲夭丕乇蹖 丕夭 胤乇蹖賯 丿毓丕 賴丕 賵 賳馗乇丕鬲 丕賵 丕賲讴丕賳 倬匕蹖乇 丕爻鬲 賵 亘丕賵乇 鬲夭丕乇 亘賴 賲賱讴賴 丿乇 丕蹖丕賲 噩賳诏 噩賴丕賳蹖 丕賵賱 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賲丨讴賲 鬲乇蹖賳 丿賱丕蹖賱蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 爻賱爻賴 爻蹖氐丿 爻丕賱賴 乇賵賲丕賳賮 賴丕 丕夭 亘蹖賳 乇賮鬲. 鬲丕乇蹖禺 蹖 亘丕乇 丿蹖诏賴 亘賴賲賵賳 诏賮鬲 噩丕蹖蹖讴賴 讴賵乇讴賵乇丕賳賴 亘丕賵乇 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮蹖賲 賳鬲蹖噩賴 丕蹖 噩夭 賮賳丕 丿乇 丕賳鬲馗丕乇賲賵賳 賳蹖爻鬲.
鬲賵 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘丕 賮乇賯賴 丕蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲 賮乇賯賴 禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖 丌卮賳丕 卮丿賲 讴賴 丿乇 讴賳丕乇 丕氐賵賱 賵 丌蹖蹖賳 賴丕卮賵賳 亘賴 趩乇禺賴 蹖 诏賳丕賴 (賲禺氐賵氐丕 亘蹖 亘賳丿 賵 亘丕乇蹖 賴丕蹖 噩賳爻蹖 ) 賵 鬲賵亘賴 亘乇丕蹖 鬲夭讴蹖賴 乇賵丨 賵 賳夭丿蹖讴蹖 乇賵丨卮賵賳 亘賴 禺丿丕 丕毓鬲賯丕丿 丿丕卮鬲賳丿.
亘丕賵乇 噩丕賴賱丕賳賴 賲賱讴賴 亘賴 賲乇丿 禺丿丕 (乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳) 讴賴 鬲賳賴丕 乇丕賴 乇爻鬲诏丕乇蹖 丨讴賵賲鬲 鬲夭丕乇蹖 丕夭 胤乇蹖賯 丿毓丕 賴丕 賵 賳馗乇丕鬲 丕賵 丕賲讴丕賳 倬匕蹖乇 丕爻鬲 賵 亘丕賵乇 鬲夭丕乇 亘賴 賲賱讴賴 丿乇 丕蹖丕賲 噩賳诏 噩賴丕賳蹖 丕賵賱 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賲丨讴賲 鬲乇蹖賳 丿賱丕蹖賱蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 爻賱爻賴 爻蹖氐丿 爻丕賱賴 乇賵賲丕賳賮 賴丕 丕夭 亘蹖賳 乇賮鬲. 鬲丕乇蹖禺 蹖 亘丕乇 丿蹖诏賴 亘賴賲賵賳 诏賮鬲 噩丕蹖蹖讴賴 讴賵乇讴賵乇丕賳賴 亘丕賵乇 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮蹖賲 賳鬲蹖噩賴 丕蹖 噩夭 賮賳丕 丿乇 丕賳鬲馗丕乇賲賵賳 賳蹖爻鬲.
鬲賵 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘丕 賮乇賯賴 丕蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲 賮乇賯賴 禺賱蹖爻鬲蹖 丌卮賳丕 卮丿賲 讴賴 丿乇 讴賳丕乇 丕氐賵賱 賵 丌蹖蹖賳 賴丕卮賵賳 亘賴 趩乇禺賴 蹖 诏賳丕賴 (賲禺氐賵氐丕 亘蹖 亘賳丿 賵 亘丕乇蹖 賴丕蹖 噩賳爻蹖 ) 賵 鬲賵亘賴 亘乇丕蹖 鬲夭讴蹖賴 乇賵丨 賵 賳夭丿蹖讴蹖 乇賵丨卮賵賳 亘賴 禺丿丕 丕毓鬲賯丕丿 丿丕卮鬲賳丿.
February 18, 2011
This is the best book about Grigori Rasputin I have found. It is interesting, and not at all dry and boring like a lot of historical books. This book practically wrote an eight page research paper for me. Out of a whole stack of books about Rasputin, this was the one I kept coming back too for references.
March 24, 2012
For a man who is incredibly fascinating, this book was a real snoozefest.
October 12, 2019
Azt m谩r a Boney M 贸ta tudjuk, hogy 贸, ezek az oroszok, 茅s hogy ez a Raszputyin m茅g a t枚bbi oroszn谩l is 贸bb. Radzinszkij k枚tete arra t枚rekszik, hogy megismertesse vel眉nk a vil谩gt枚rt茅nelem e p谩ratlan figur谩j谩t, kiss茅 m茅lyebben, mint ahogy azt a legend谩s popzenekar dalsz枚vege* tette. Els艖 茅szrev茅telem ezzel a k枚nyvvel kapcsolatban az volt, hogy a szerz艖 csak ebben a m疟ben annyi felki谩lt贸jelet haszn谩lt el, mint a komplett angolsz谩sz t枚rt茅n茅szszakma Gibbont贸l eg茅szen napjainkig 鈥� bevallom, ez kicsit gyanakv贸v谩 is tett. N茅zetem szerint ugyanis a felki谩lt贸jelek 茅s a Caps Lock seg铆ts茅g茅vel nyomat茅kos铆tott szavak ("AZ 脺GY") nem kifejezetten t枚rt茅nelmi szakmunk谩kba val贸ak.
Radzinszkij k枚nyve valahol az objekt铆v ismeretterjeszt艖 monogr谩fia 茅s a szubjekt铆v v茅lem茅ny hat谩r谩n k枚t茅lt谩ncol, 茅s nehezen tudom eld枚nteni, melyikhez 谩ll k枚zelebb. Egyfel艖l szemre ez a k枚tet t谩rgyszer疟, mert elk茅peszt艖 mennyis茅g疟 cit谩tumot haszn谩l fel mindenf茅le korabeli visszaeml茅kez茅sb艖l illetve 眉gyn枚ki jelent茅sb艖l** 鈥� 谩m egy k枚z枚s van valamennyi id茅zetben: kiv茅tel n茅lk眉l mindegyik elfogult. Vagy 铆gy, vagy 煤gy. Motoszk谩lt is bennem a kis枚rd枚g, hogy ha Raszputyinr贸l gy枚keresen elt茅r艖 profilk茅pet akarunk alkotni, akkor azt is megtehetn茅nk, csak 茅ppen m谩s 茅rtelm疟 id茅zeteket k茅ne beleoll贸zni a sz枚vegbe 鈥� biztos olyanok is akadnak a r贸la sz贸l贸 visszaeml茅kez茅sek tenger茅ben. Meg egy谩ltal谩n: 煤gy 谩ltal谩ban v茅ve Radzinszkij t煤l er艖sen sugalmazza a saj谩t hipot茅ziseit 鈥� gyakran 煤gy, hogy azokat nem t谩masztja al谩 kell艖k茅ppen t茅nyekkel, illetve visszakereshet艖 forr谩sokkal.
Ami miatt m茅gis azt mondom, hogy ezt a k枚nyvet 茅rdemes elolvasni, az a korszak atmoszf茅r谩j谩nak 茅rz茅kelteltet茅se. Mert ak谩r elfogadom Radzinszkij elm茅let茅t, ak谩r nem, azt meg kell hagyni, hogy Raszputyin p谩lyafut谩sa t茅nyleg nehezen magyar谩zhat贸 a szok谩sos s茅m谩k szerint, 茅s innent艖l kezdve ha igaza van a szerz艖nek, ha nem, hipot茅zise v茅gt茅re is meg茅rdemli a figyelmet. Van ez a muzsik, aki valahonnan a szib茅riai 艖serd艖b艖l odakeveredik Szentp茅terv谩rra, becs谩mp谩zik a fels茅ges c谩r fels茅ges sz铆ne el茅, 茅s az ujja k枚r茅 csavarja 艖t. Hogy lehet ez? A h铆res hipnotikus tekintet az oka? Vagy az egy茅b X-akt谩kba ill艖 var谩zslatok 鈥� p茅ld谩ul hogy k茅zr谩t茅tellel gy贸gy铆tja a tr贸n枚r枚k枚s v茅rz茅kenys茅g茅t? Vagy egyszer疟en arr贸l van sz贸, hogy Mikl贸s c谩r 茅s feles茅ge t煤ls谩gosan belesz茅d眉ltek az orosz n茅pl茅lek tanulm谩nyoz谩s谩ba, meg a misztikumba, 茅s t煤l sok M眉ller P茅tert olvastak, amit azt谩n egy minden h谩jjal megkent sz茅lh谩mos sikerrel ki is akn谩zott? Ki tudja. Az biztos, hogy a Radzinszkij 谩ltal felv谩zolt/meg谩lmodott Raszputyin izgalmas alak: egy igazi jurogyivij, egy 鈥瀞zent 艖r眉lt鈥�, olyasvalaki, aki a gazdag orosz szektahagyom谩nyb贸l emelkedett ki, 茅s hiszi, hogy a b疟nb谩nat b疟n n茅lk眉l nem 茅r semmit 鈥� im谩ink csak akkor tal谩lj谩k meg Istent, ha el艖sz枚r a lehet艖 legm茅lyebbre bukunk a sz茅gyenbe 茅s a piszokba. 脡s nem mellesleg p茅ld谩tlanul karizmatikus szem茅lyis茅g, aki ezen hit茅t k茅pes 谩tsug谩rozni k枚rnyezet茅re 鈥� k枚zt眉k a c谩ri csal谩dra, 铆gy olyan magas polcra emelkedik, amire muzsik m茅g sosem az orosz t枚rt茅nelemben. Csak h谩t 鈥� mint az k枚ztudott 鈥� magasr贸l lehet a legnagyobbat esni.
R谩ad谩sul Radzinszkij az 枚nmag谩ban is er艖s t枚rt茅net m枚g茅 magabiztosan sz枚vi oda a korszak vil谩gv茅ge-hangulat谩t: a Duma 茅s a c谩r k枚zti folyton n枚vekv艖 fesz眉lts茅get, a liber谩lisok, forradalm谩rok 茅s reakci贸sok 谩lland贸 k眉zdelm茅t, a forrong贸 Moszkv谩t 茅s Szentp茅terv谩rt, ahol nemsok谩ra t枚rt茅nni fog valami鈥� valami, ami romba d枚nti majd az eg茅sz birodalmat. A szerz艖 az apokalipszis ezen 铆g茅ret茅t j贸l 茅rezhet艖en 枚sszek枚ti Raszputyin hihetetlen felemelked茅s茅vel 茅s sz枚rny疟s茅ges buk谩s谩val 鈥� persze hogy a k茅t esem茅ny val贸ban 铆gy 枚ssze volna n艖ve, azon lehet vitatkozni, de az biztos, hogy a k枚nyvnek j贸l 谩ll ez az anal贸gia.
* Am煤gy az megvan, hogy a Boney M frontember茅t, Bobby Farrell-t egy szentp茅terv谩ri hotelszob谩ban tal谩lt谩k holtan 鈥� abban a v谩rosban, ahol Raszputyin is oly sok bajt kavart? (Csak ha valakit vonzanak az 枚sszeesk眉v茅s-elm茅letek.)
** Az 鈥瀍lk茅peszt艖鈥� ebben a kontextusban azt takarja, hogy t煤l sokat is. 脷j inform谩ci贸t ugyanis egy id艖 ut谩n ezek a kiragadott sz枚vegek nem k枚z枚lnek.
Radzinszkij k枚nyve valahol az objekt铆v ismeretterjeszt艖 monogr谩fia 茅s a szubjekt铆v v茅lem茅ny hat谩r谩n k枚t茅lt谩ncol, 茅s nehezen tudom eld枚nteni, melyikhez 谩ll k枚zelebb. Egyfel艖l szemre ez a k枚tet t谩rgyszer疟, mert elk茅peszt艖 mennyis茅g疟 cit谩tumot haszn谩l fel mindenf茅le korabeli visszaeml茅kez茅sb艖l illetve 眉gyn枚ki jelent茅sb艖l** 鈥� 谩m egy k枚z枚s van valamennyi id茅zetben: kiv茅tel n茅lk眉l mindegyik elfogult. Vagy 铆gy, vagy 煤gy. Motoszk谩lt is bennem a kis枚rd枚g, hogy ha Raszputyinr贸l gy枚keresen elt茅r艖 profilk茅pet akarunk alkotni, akkor azt is megtehetn茅nk, csak 茅ppen m谩s 茅rtelm疟 id茅zeteket k茅ne beleoll贸zni a sz枚vegbe 鈥� biztos olyanok is akadnak a r贸la sz贸l贸 visszaeml茅kez茅sek tenger茅ben. Meg egy谩ltal谩n: 煤gy 谩ltal谩ban v茅ve Radzinszkij t煤l er艖sen sugalmazza a saj谩t hipot茅ziseit 鈥� gyakran 煤gy, hogy azokat nem t谩masztja al谩 kell艖k茅ppen t茅nyekkel, illetve visszakereshet艖 forr谩sokkal.
Ami miatt m茅gis azt mondom, hogy ezt a k枚nyvet 茅rdemes elolvasni, az a korszak atmoszf茅r谩j谩nak 茅rz茅kelteltet茅se. Mert ak谩r elfogadom Radzinszkij elm茅let茅t, ak谩r nem, azt meg kell hagyni, hogy Raszputyin p谩lyafut谩sa t茅nyleg nehezen magyar谩zhat贸 a szok谩sos s茅m谩k szerint, 茅s innent艖l kezdve ha igaza van a szerz艖nek, ha nem, hipot茅zise v茅gt茅re is meg茅rdemli a figyelmet. Van ez a muzsik, aki valahonnan a szib茅riai 艖serd艖b艖l odakeveredik Szentp茅terv谩rra, becs谩mp谩zik a fels茅ges c谩r fels茅ges sz铆ne el茅, 茅s az ujja k枚r茅 csavarja 艖t. Hogy lehet ez? A h铆res hipnotikus tekintet az oka? Vagy az egy茅b X-akt谩kba ill艖 var谩zslatok 鈥� p茅ld谩ul hogy k茅zr谩t茅tellel gy贸gy铆tja a tr贸n枚r枚k枚s v茅rz茅kenys茅g茅t? Vagy egyszer疟en arr贸l van sz贸, hogy Mikl贸s c谩r 茅s feles茅ge t煤ls谩gosan belesz茅d眉ltek az orosz n茅pl茅lek tanulm谩nyoz谩s谩ba, meg a misztikumba, 茅s t煤l sok M眉ller P茅tert olvastak, amit azt谩n egy minden h谩jjal megkent sz茅lh谩mos sikerrel ki is akn谩zott? Ki tudja. Az biztos, hogy a Radzinszkij 谩ltal felv谩zolt/meg谩lmodott Raszputyin izgalmas alak: egy igazi jurogyivij, egy 鈥瀞zent 艖r眉lt鈥�, olyasvalaki, aki a gazdag orosz szektahagyom谩nyb贸l emelkedett ki, 茅s hiszi, hogy a b疟nb谩nat b疟n n茅lk眉l nem 茅r semmit 鈥� im谩ink csak akkor tal谩lj谩k meg Istent, ha el艖sz枚r a lehet艖 legm茅lyebbre bukunk a sz茅gyenbe 茅s a piszokba. 脡s nem mellesleg p茅ld谩tlanul karizmatikus szem茅lyis茅g, aki ezen hit茅t k茅pes 谩tsug谩rozni k枚rnyezet茅re 鈥� k枚zt眉k a c谩ri csal谩dra, 铆gy olyan magas polcra emelkedik, amire muzsik m茅g sosem az orosz t枚rt茅nelemben. Csak h谩t 鈥� mint az k枚ztudott 鈥� magasr贸l lehet a legnagyobbat esni.
R谩ad谩sul Radzinszkij az 枚nmag谩ban is er艖s t枚rt茅net m枚g茅 magabiztosan sz枚vi oda a korszak vil谩gv茅ge-hangulat谩t: a Duma 茅s a c谩r k枚zti folyton n枚vekv艖 fesz眉lts茅get, a liber谩lisok, forradalm谩rok 茅s reakci贸sok 谩lland贸 k眉zdelm茅t, a forrong贸 Moszkv谩t 茅s Szentp茅terv谩rt, ahol nemsok谩ra t枚rt茅nni fog valami鈥� valami, ami romba d枚nti majd az eg茅sz birodalmat. A szerz艖 az apokalipszis ezen 铆g茅ret茅t j贸l 茅rezhet艖en 枚sszek枚ti Raszputyin hihetetlen felemelked茅s茅vel 茅s sz枚rny疟s茅ges buk谩s谩val 鈥� persze hogy a k茅t esem茅ny val贸ban 铆gy 枚ssze volna n艖ve, azon lehet vitatkozni, de az biztos, hogy a k枚nyvnek j贸l 谩ll ez az anal贸gia.
* Am煤gy az megvan, hogy a Boney M frontember茅t, Bobby Farrell-t egy szentp茅terv谩ri hotelszob谩ban tal谩lt谩k holtan 鈥� abban a v谩rosban, ahol Raszputyin is oly sok bajt kavart? (Csak ha valakit vonzanak az 枚sszeesk眉v茅s-elm茅letek.)
** Az 鈥瀍lk茅peszt艖鈥� ebben a kontextusban azt takarja, hogy t煤l sokat is. 脷j inform谩ci贸t ugyanis egy id艖 ut谩n ezek a kiragadott sz枚vegek nem k枚z枚lnek.
February 21, 2011
I really wanted to like this book, but I found a some problems with it. Some of them are purely housekeeping problems. For instance, the English translation is good, but I think it sucks some of the punch out of the language. There are exclamation points where there shouldn't be, and assumptions of what the author is saying in parenthiesis where there needn't be. It comes off drier than I think the original author intended.
The bigger problem is that the author promises to offer an unbiased look at Rasputin, from the perspective of those who knew him best. He accomplishes this through blaming Tsarina Alexandra wherever and whenever possible, saying that most of what Rasputin did was through his gleaning insight, and that he instinctually knew what SHE wanted him to do. When it's NOT possible, he switches tactics, and discounts the things Rasputin's friends and admirers say about him. It seems virtually everyone in Russia who was connected to the man was fat, ugly, gay, or probably gay. Or possibly had a gay husband. Entertaining to note, sure, but certainly far from the unbiased look the author promises. Tsarina Alexandra is continually compared to Marie Antoinette, and Rasputin is compared to both Hitler and Stalin, but is most commonly called, "the semi-illiterate Russian peasant." When I say 'commonly reffered as' I mean Radzinsky seems determined to remind us of his status every three or four pages. (Again, that could be the translation.) There's a line in the first section of the book that talks about life before Rasputin's birth, how many miscarriages his mother had, where it says, "like Hitler and Stalin, Rasputin was an only child, as if God had warned against that family reproducing." Then casually goes on in later pages to talk about Rasputin's own five children!
I wasn't exactly expecting sympathy for the man who is blamed for the fall of Russian Imperialism. It's a good read in that it doesn't skimp on details, and though the endings and conclusions are nothing I haven't heard before, there were lots of other little details in it that the historian in me loved. But the author promises to look at the story and the man in an unbiased way, and you can clearly see the author's own bias all through it. As he is a noted historian, I have to admit, I expected to find something a little more interesting and provocative. I have a feeling that's what the author meant to do, but in the end, even HE couldn't make up his mind, or deny his own biases.
The bigger problem is that the author promises to offer an unbiased look at Rasputin, from the perspective of those who knew him best. He accomplishes this through blaming Tsarina Alexandra wherever and whenever possible, saying that most of what Rasputin did was through his gleaning insight, and that he instinctually knew what SHE wanted him to do. When it's NOT possible, he switches tactics, and discounts the things Rasputin's friends and admirers say about him. It seems virtually everyone in Russia who was connected to the man was fat, ugly, gay, or probably gay. Or possibly had a gay husband. Entertaining to note, sure, but certainly far from the unbiased look the author promises. Tsarina Alexandra is continually compared to Marie Antoinette, and Rasputin is compared to both Hitler and Stalin, but is most commonly called, "the semi-illiterate Russian peasant." When I say 'commonly reffered as' I mean Radzinsky seems determined to remind us of his status every three or four pages. (Again, that could be the translation.) There's a line in the first section of the book that talks about life before Rasputin's birth, how many miscarriages his mother had, where it says, "like Hitler and Stalin, Rasputin was an only child, as if God had warned against that family reproducing." Then casually goes on in later pages to talk about Rasputin's own five children!
I wasn't exactly expecting sympathy for the man who is blamed for the fall of Russian Imperialism. It's a good read in that it doesn't skimp on details, and though the endings and conclusions are nothing I haven't heard before, there were lots of other little details in it that the historian in me loved. But the author promises to look at the story and the man in an unbiased way, and you can clearly see the author's own bias all through it. As he is a noted historian, I have to admit, I expected to find something a little more interesting and provocative. I have a feeling that's what the author meant to do, but in the end, even HE couldn't make up his mind, or deny his own biases.
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November 30, 2022
丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘賴 禺賵亘蹖 夭賵丕蹖丕蹖 倬蹖丿丕 賵 倬賳賴丕賳 夭賳丿诏蹖 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賲乇賲賵夭鬲乇蹖賳 丕賮乇丕丿 丿乇 鬲丕乇蹖禺 乇賵爻蹖賴 乇賵 賳卮賵賳 賲蹖丿賴
賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 亘乇丕蹖 噩賲毓鈥屫①堌臂� 丕胤賱丕毓丕鬲 賵 賳賵卮鬲賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 夭丨賲鬲 夭蹖丕丿蹖 讴卮蹖丿賴 賵 噩夭卅蹖丕鬲 禺蹖賱蹖 乇蹖夭蹖 乇賵 賲胤乇丨 賲蹖讴賳賴. 丕夭 夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 爻乇 賵 讴賱賴 丕蹖賳 丿賴賯丕賳 爻蹖亘乇蹖丕蹖蹖 倬蹖丿丕 賲蹖卮賴 鬲丕 丌禺乇蹖賳 賱丨馗丕鬲 夭賳丿诏蹖卮 乇賵 亘賴 禺賵亘蹖 鬲氐賵蹖乇爻丕夭蹖 賲蹖讴賳賴
丕夭 賴賲賴 賲賴賲鈥屫� 卮丕蹖丿 乇毓丕蹖鬲 亘蹖鈥屫坟辟佦� 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賴爻鬲卮貙 丨鬲蹖 丿乇 禺氐賵氐 賲乇诏 讴賴 丕亘賴丕賲丕鬲 賵 丕賮爻丕賳賴鈥屬囏й� 夭蹖丕丿蹖 賵噩賵丿 丿丕乇賴貙 爻毓蹖 賲蹖讴賳賴 亘丕 匕讴乇 乇賵丕蹖鬲鈥屬囏й� 賲禺鬲賱賮貙 亘賴 賳鬲蹖噩賴鈥屭屫臂� 賲賳丕爻亘蹖 亘乇爻賴
蹖賴 匕乇賴 丨噩賲 讴鬲丕亘 夭蹖丕丿 賵 胤賵賱丕賳蹖 賴爻鬲卮 賵賱蹖 乇賵賳丿 讴鬲丕亘 丨賵氐賱賴鈥屫池必ㄘ� 賳蹖爻鬲 賵 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 鬲賱丕卮 讴乇丿賴 亘丕 蹖賴 爻乇蹖 賵賯賮賴鈥屬囏� 賵 噩丕亘噩丕蹖蹖鈥屬囏й� 夭賲丕賳蹖 丕夭 蹖讴賳賵丕禺鬲蹖 讴鬲丕亘 噩賱賵诏蹖乇蹖 讴賳賴貙 丕賳氐丕賮丕 賴賲 賲賵賮賯 亘賵丿賴
亘丕 禺賵賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丕胤賱丕毓丕鬲 禺賵亘蹖 丿乇 禺氐賵氐 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌禺乇蹖賳 鬲夭丕乇 乇賵爻蹖賴 賵 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴鈥屫簇� 卮乇丕蹖胤 讴卮賵乇 丿乇 丕賵賳 夭賲丕賳貙 丕賳賯賱丕亘鈥屬囏й� 乇賵爻蹖賴 賵 丕夭 賴賲賴 賲賴賲鈥屫� 丕毓鬲賯丕丿丕鬲 賲乇丿賲 毓丕丿蹖 丿乇 乇賵爻蹖賴 賵 卮丕禺賴鈥屬囏й� 賲禺鬲賱賮 賲匕賴亘蹖 讴賴 亘賴 氐賵乇鬲 鬲乇讴蹖亘蹖 丕夭 賲爻蹖丨蹖鬲 賵 丌蹖蹖賳 卮賲賳蹖爻賲 卮讴賱 诏乇賮鬲賳 乇賵 亘賴 丿爻鬲 賲蹖丕乇蹖丿
賮賯胤 賳讴鬲賴 爻禺鬲 讴鬲丕亘 (讴賴 鬲賵蹖 丕讴孬乇 讴鬲丕亘鈥屬囏й� 乇賵爻蹖 賴爻鬲卮) 鬲毓丿丿 丕爻丕賲蹖 卮亘蹖賴 亘賴 賴賲 賴爻鬲卮 讴賴 賵賯鬲蹖 亘丿鬲乇 賲蹖卮賴 讴賴 亘丕 丕爻丕賲蹖 爻賴 讴賱賲賴鈥屫й屫� 賱賯亘 丕賮乇丕丿貙 賳丨賵賴 氐丿丕 讴乇丿賳 丿賵爻鬲丕賳賴 賵 賳丨賵賴 氐丿丕 讴乇丿賳 賴賲乇丕賴 亘丕鬲丨賯蹖乇 鬲乇讴蹖亘 賲蹖卮賴 賵 亘丕毓孬 倬蹖趩蹖丿诏蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賲蹖卮賴
(倬蹖卮賳賴丕丿 賲蹖讴賳賲 賯亘賱卮 蹖賴 賲胤丕賱毓賴鈥屫й� 丿乇 禺氐賵氐 卮讴賱 賲賵賳孬 賵 賲匕讴乇 丕爻丕賲蹖 丿乇 乇賵爻蹖 賵 賳丨賵賴 讴賵鬲丕賴鈥屭┴必� 賳丕賲鈥屬囏� 賵 氐丿丕 讴乇丿賳 賴賲丿蹖诏賴 亘賴 乇賵爻蹖 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮蹖丿)
鬲乇噩賲賴 賴賲 禺賵亘 賵 乇賵丕賳 亘賵丿卮 丕賱亘鬲賴 亘賴 賳馗乇賲 蹖賴 噩丕賴丕蹖蹖 亘賴 禺丕胤乇 卮乇丕蹖胤 賲賲蹖夭蹖 丕夭 蹖賴 爻乇蹖 賱睾丕鬲 禺丕氐 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 賲蹖卮賴 讴賴 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 亘毓丿 丕夭 趩賳丿 亘丕乇 鬲讴乇丕乇 丕蹖賳 賳賵毓 讴賱賲丕鬲 賲鬲賵噩賴 賲蹖卮賴 賲賳馗賵乇 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賵 賲鬲乇噩賲 趩蹖 亘賵丿賴
賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 亘乇丕蹖 噩賲毓鈥屫①堌臂� 丕胤賱丕毓丕鬲 賵 賳賵卮鬲賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 夭丨賲鬲 夭蹖丕丿蹖 讴卮蹖丿賴 賵 噩夭卅蹖丕鬲 禺蹖賱蹖 乇蹖夭蹖 乇賵 賲胤乇丨 賲蹖讴賳賴. 丕夭 夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 爻乇 賵 讴賱賴 丕蹖賳 丿賴賯丕賳 爻蹖亘乇蹖丕蹖蹖 倬蹖丿丕 賲蹖卮賴 鬲丕 丌禺乇蹖賳 賱丨馗丕鬲 夭賳丿诏蹖卮 乇賵 亘賴 禺賵亘蹖 鬲氐賵蹖乇爻丕夭蹖 賲蹖讴賳賴
丕夭 賴賲賴 賲賴賲鈥屫� 卮丕蹖丿 乇毓丕蹖鬲 亘蹖鈥屫坟辟佦� 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賴爻鬲卮貙 丨鬲蹖 丿乇 禺氐賵氐 賲乇诏 讴賴 丕亘賴丕賲丕鬲 賵 丕賮爻丕賳賴鈥屬囏й� 夭蹖丕丿蹖 賵噩賵丿 丿丕乇賴貙 爻毓蹖 賲蹖讴賳賴 亘丕 匕讴乇 乇賵丕蹖鬲鈥屬囏й� 賲禺鬲賱賮貙 亘賴 賳鬲蹖噩賴鈥屭屫臂� 賲賳丕爻亘蹖 亘乇爻賴
蹖賴 匕乇賴 丨噩賲 讴鬲丕亘 夭蹖丕丿 賵 胤賵賱丕賳蹖 賴爻鬲卮 賵賱蹖 乇賵賳丿 讴鬲丕亘 丨賵氐賱賴鈥屫池必ㄘ� 賳蹖爻鬲 賵 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 鬲賱丕卮 讴乇丿賴 亘丕 蹖賴 爻乇蹖 賵賯賮賴鈥屬囏� 賵 噩丕亘噩丕蹖蹖鈥屬囏й� 夭賲丕賳蹖 丕夭 蹖讴賳賵丕禺鬲蹖 讴鬲丕亘 噩賱賵诏蹖乇蹖 讴賳賴貙 丕賳氐丕賮丕 賴賲 賲賵賮賯 亘賵丿賴
亘丕 禺賵賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丕胤賱丕毓丕鬲 禺賵亘蹖 丿乇 禺氐賵氐 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌禺乇蹖賳 鬲夭丕乇 乇賵爻蹖賴 賵 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴鈥屫簇� 卮乇丕蹖胤 讴卮賵乇 丿乇 丕賵賳 夭賲丕賳貙 丕賳賯賱丕亘鈥屬囏й� 乇賵爻蹖賴 賵 丕夭 賴賲賴 賲賴賲鈥屫� 丕毓鬲賯丕丿丕鬲 賲乇丿賲 毓丕丿蹖 丿乇 乇賵爻蹖賴 賵 卮丕禺賴鈥屬囏й� 賲禺鬲賱賮 賲匕賴亘蹖 讴賴 亘賴 氐賵乇鬲 鬲乇讴蹖亘蹖 丕夭 賲爻蹖丨蹖鬲 賵 丌蹖蹖賳 卮賲賳蹖爻賲 卮讴賱 诏乇賮鬲賳 乇賵 亘賴 丿爻鬲 賲蹖丕乇蹖丿
賮賯胤 賳讴鬲賴 爻禺鬲 讴鬲丕亘 (讴賴 鬲賵蹖 丕讴孬乇 讴鬲丕亘鈥屬囏й� 乇賵爻蹖 賴爻鬲卮) 鬲毓丿丿 丕爻丕賲蹖 卮亘蹖賴 亘賴 賴賲 賴爻鬲卮 讴賴 賵賯鬲蹖 亘丿鬲乇 賲蹖卮賴 讴賴 亘丕 丕爻丕賲蹖 爻賴 讴賱賲賴鈥屫й屫� 賱賯亘 丕賮乇丕丿貙 賳丨賵賴 氐丿丕 讴乇丿賳 丿賵爻鬲丕賳賴 賵 賳丨賵賴 氐丿丕 讴乇丿賳 賴賲乇丕賴 亘丕鬲丨賯蹖乇 鬲乇讴蹖亘 賲蹖卮賴 賵 亘丕毓孬 倬蹖趩蹖丿诏蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賲蹖卮賴
(倬蹖卮賳賴丕丿 賲蹖讴賳賲 賯亘賱卮 蹖賴 賲胤丕賱毓賴鈥屫й� 丿乇 禺氐賵氐 卮讴賱 賲賵賳孬 賵 賲匕讴乇 丕爻丕賲蹖 丿乇 乇賵爻蹖 賵 賳丨賵賴 讴賵鬲丕賴鈥屭┴必� 賳丕賲鈥屬囏� 賵 氐丿丕 讴乇丿賳 賴賲丿蹖诏賴 亘賴 乇賵爻蹖 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮蹖丿)
鬲乇噩賲賴 賴賲 禺賵亘 賵 乇賵丕賳 亘賵丿卮 丕賱亘鬲賴 亘賴 賳馗乇賲 蹖賴 噩丕賴丕蹖蹖 亘賴 禺丕胤乇 卮乇丕蹖胤 賲賲蹖夭蹖 丕夭 蹖賴 爻乇蹖 賱睾丕鬲 禺丕氐 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 賲蹖卮賴 讴賴 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 亘毓丿 丕夭 趩賳丿 亘丕乇 鬲讴乇丕乇 丕蹖賳 賳賵毓 讴賱賲丕鬲 賲鬲賵噩賴 賲蹖卮賴 賲賳馗賵乇 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賵 賲鬲乇噩賲 趩蹖 亘賵丿賴
July 25, 2015
One of the most misunderstood and scariest men every to live. This book covers his life from his discovery as a humble monk to the man behind the throne of Russia. A slow to read but very interesting book. Very Recommended
April 16, 2024
讴鬲丕亘 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 賲乇丿 丿賵 趩賴乇賴鈥屫й� 賲蹖鈥屬矩必ж藏� 讴賴 賴賲賵丕乇賴 丨賯蹖賯鬲 丿乇亘丕乇賴 丕賵 丿乇 卮讴 亘賵丿賴 丕爻鬲. 丌蹖丕 丕賵 蹖讴 賯丿蹖爻賴 亘賵丿 蹖丕 讴爻蹖 讴賴 乇賵丨卮 乇丕 亘賴 卮蹖胤丕賳 賮乇賵禺鬲賴 亘賵丿.
诏乇蹖诏賵乇蹖 丕賮蹖賲賵賵蹖趩 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丿賴賯丕賳蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 丿乇 噩乇蹖丕賳 亘蹖賲丕乇蹖 鬲夭丕乇賵蹖趩 丕賱讴爻蹖 賵丕乇丿 丿乇亘丕乇 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 賵 丕賵 賲賵賮賯 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 讴賴 卮丕賴夭丕丿賴 噩賵丕賳 乇丕 丿乇賲丕賳 讴賳丿 丿乇 賯氐乇 賲丕賳丿诏丕乇 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 胤賵賱蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屭┴簇� 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丿爻鬲 乇丕爻鬲 卮丕賴 賵 賲賱讴賴 賵 賲賵乇丿 丕毓鬲賲丕丿 丌賳賴丕 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 亘賴 胤賵乇蹖 讴賴 丿乇 鬲賲丕賲 丕賲賵乇 爻蹖丕爻蹖 丿禺丕賱鬲 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 賵 丕蹖賳 賲爻卅賱賴 爻亘亘 丨爻丕丿鬲 丕胤乇丕賮蹖丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 鬲丕 爻乇 丕賳噩丕賲 賲賳噩乇 亘賴 賯鬲賱 丕賵 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 丕賲丕 丕蹖賳 卮禺氐蹖鬲 亘賴 丿賱蹖賱 倬蹖卮诏賵蹖蹖鈥屬囏й屫� 賵 夭賳亘丕乇诏蹖 亘蹖 丨丿卮 賵 賳賯卮蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丕賳賯賱丕亘 乇賵爻蹖賴 亘丕夭蹖 讴乇丿賴 亘賴 卮禺氐蹖鬲蹖 乇丕夭 丌賲蹖夭 賵 賲毓賲丕蹖蹖 鬲亘丿蹖賱 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲. 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘丕 亘乇乇爻蹖 賲賳丕亘毓 鬲丕乇蹖禺蹖 賯氐丿 丿丕乇丿 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 乇丕 亘乇乇爻蹖 讴賳丿. 丿乇 爻丕賱 郾酃酃鄣 蹖讴 倬乇賵賳丿賴 诏賲卮丿賴 丕夭 亘丕蹖诏丕賳蹖 乇賵爻蹖賴 倬蹖丿丕 卮丿貙 倬乇賵賳丿賴鈥屫й� 讴賴 卮丕賲賱 亘丕夭噩賵蹖蹖鈥屬囏й� 讴丕賲賱 丕夭 丨賱賯賴鈥屰� 丿丕禺賱蹖 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 亘賵丿. 亘丕 丕蹖賳 鬲賯賵蹖鬲 诏爻鬲乇丿賴 賵 氐乇蹖丨 丕夭 爻丕亘賯賴鈥屰� 鬲丕乇蹖禺蹖 貙 丕丿賵丕乇丿 乇丕跇蹖賳爻讴蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 賳丕賲賴鈥屫й� 賯胤毓蹖 乇丕 賳賵卮鬲賴 丕爻鬲貙 賵 夭賳丿诏蹖 噩匕丕亘 蹖讴 丕賳爻丕賳 丕丨鬲賲丕賱丕 賲賯丿爻 乇丕 讴賴 乇賵賳丿 鬲丕乇蹖禺 乇賵爻蹖賴 乇丕 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 丿丕丿賴 丕爻鬲貙 亘賴 胤賵乇 讴丕賲賱 亘丕夭爻丕夭蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�.
诏乇蹖诏賵乇蹖 丕賮蹖賲賵賵蹖趩 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丿賴賯丕賳蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 丿乇 噩乇蹖丕賳 亘蹖賲丕乇蹖 鬲夭丕乇賵蹖趩 丕賱讴爻蹖 賵丕乇丿 丿乇亘丕乇 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 賵 丕賵 賲賵賮賯 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 讴賴 卮丕賴夭丕丿賴 噩賵丕賳 乇丕 丿乇賲丕賳 讴賳丿 丿乇 賯氐乇 賲丕賳丿诏丕乇 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 胤賵賱蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屭┴簇� 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 丿爻鬲 乇丕爻鬲 卮丕賴 賵 賲賱讴賴 賵 賲賵乇丿 丕毓鬲賲丕丿 丌賳賴丕 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 亘賴 胤賵乇蹖 讴賴 丿乇 鬲賲丕賲 丕賲賵乇 爻蹖丕爻蹖 丿禺丕賱鬲 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 賵 丕蹖賳 賲爻卅賱賴 爻亘亘 丨爻丕丿鬲 丕胤乇丕賮蹖丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 鬲丕 爻乇 丕賳噩丕賲 賲賳噩乇 亘賴 賯鬲賱 丕賵 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 丕賲丕 丕蹖賳 卮禺氐蹖鬲 亘賴 丿賱蹖賱 倬蹖卮诏賵蹖蹖鈥屬囏й屫� 賵 夭賳亘丕乇诏蹖 亘蹖 丨丿卮 賵 賳賯卮蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丕賳賯賱丕亘 乇賵爻蹖賴 亘丕夭蹖 讴乇丿賴 亘賴 卮禺氐蹖鬲蹖 乇丕夭 丌賲蹖夭 賵 賲毓賲丕蹖蹖 鬲亘丿蹖賱 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲. 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘丕 亘乇乇爻蹖 賲賳丕亘毓 鬲丕乇蹖禺蹖 賯氐丿 丿丕乇丿 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 乇丕 亘乇乇爻蹖 讴賳丿. 丿乇 爻丕賱 郾酃酃鄣 蹖讴 倬乇賵賳丿賴 诏賲卮丿賴 丕夭 亘丕蹖诏丕賳蹖 乇賵爻蹖賴 倬蹖丿丕 卮丿貙 倬乇賵賳丿賴鈥屫й� 讴賴 卮丕賲賱 亘丕夭噩賵蹖蹖鈥屬囏й� 讴丕賲賱 丕夭 丨賱賯賴鈥屰� 丿丕禺賱蹖 乇丕爻倬賵鬲蹖賳 亘賵丿. 亘丕 丕蹖賳 鬲賯賵蹖鬲 诏爻鬲乇丿賴 賵 氐乇蹖丨 丕夭 爻丕亘賯賴鈥屰� 鬲丕乇蹖禺蹖 貙 丕丿賵丕乇丿 乇丕跇蹖賳爻讴蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 賳丕賲賴鈥屫й� 賯胤毓蹖 乇丕 賳賵卮鬲賴 丕爻鬲貙 賵 夭賳丿诏蹖 噩匕丕亘 蹖讴 丕賳爻丕賳 丕丨鬲賲丕賱丕 賲賯丿爻 乇丕 讴賴 乇賵賳丿 鬲丕乇蹖禺 乇賵爻蹖賴 乇丕 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 丿丕丿賴 丕爻鬲貙 亘賴 胤賵乇 讴丕賲賱 亘丕夭爻丕夭蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�.
August 7, 2007
I got this book as a birthday present from Nick a bunch of years ago and I have finally just gotten around to reading it. Before I even begin, let me just say that I am big into Russian history. Prior to reading this book, I mostly was interested in the Lenin and Stalin periods of Russian history, but this book definately made me want to know more about the period right before it. This book is so great because it is written so much like a novel. It's really exciting and dramatic as the author uses this secret document that he personally was on a quest for and finally discovered (also known as "The File"). This book not only describes the traditional legend of Rasputin, but also goes into detail about his influence at Tsarskoe Selo as well as his ties to his other followers. All in all, I'd say this is a great book for anyone interested in learning about one of the greatest factors leading up to the Bolshekiv revoution.
ps I've also read his biography of Stalin which is also excellent...
ps I've also read his biography of Stalin which is also excellent...
June 15, 2014
Un libro construido a partir de los hechos y que ayudan a colocar a Rasput铆n en un marco hist贸rico concreto con su historia y su circunstancia.
Este libro complementa a otros como Nicol谩s y Alejandra as铆 como El Fin de los Romanov. Una persona clave y que al final de todo era un ser humano que desgraciadamente sus obras socavaron las bases de la monarqu铆a rusa.
Un enigma del siglo XX.
Este libro complementa a otros como Nicol谩s y Alejandra as铆 como El Fin de los Romanov. Una persona clave y que al final de todo era un ser humano que desgraciadamente sus obras socavaron las bases de la monarqu铆a rusa.
Un enigma del siglo XX.
March 7, 2016
This book explains how a mystic peasant holy man debauchee came to darn near rule Russia via his tremendous influence over the tsarina Alexandra, who herself was the power behind her husband Nick's throne.
June 1, 2012
My interest in anything Romanov occasionally borders with obsession so if there is a book about this subject,you can bet I will read it.
Found this one in local bookshop and of course had to buy it although at this point I am very familiar with the story,but here we have fresh files (unearthed from somewhere and sold on Sotheby's auction,presented as a gift to author),photos and less known characters.
It is a huge,occasionally very exhausting story that covers not only royal family and their inner circle but literally cast of thousands who one way or the other influenced the story,for example we have police file on everybody who has ever visited Rasputin's house,his visits to prostitutes,names of priests he clashed with,politicians who used him (and were used) and so on. Towards the end I must admit I started losing the count who is who and perhaps the book would have benefited from some serious editing but never mind,obviously the author was delighted with access to newly discovered files and I understand the pleasure of dealing with facts instead of second-guessing what actually happened. Hm,we are still talking about the "facts" but must admit these are documents that survived communism so who knows how distilled these "facts" actually are.
At the very first,I thought this might be (finally) a fresh look at character with incredibly bad reputation and something inside still tells me there is a possibility Rasputin's reputation was destroyed by his enemies. But soon it became clear this was not author's intention - Radzinsky is not interested in explanations of how and why,he is focused on messages,letters and interviews (in itself perhaps illusionary as we don't know for sure whom were they sent and what was the story behind it - letters signed with "Darling" could but don't have been sent by Empress,for example). Another thing is,Radzinsky is very one-sided: if he decides against certain character,he will write about him/her with disgust and clearly visible contempt (see Ana Vyrubova) no matter what documents say. Communists have released Vyrubova from prison because they simply couldn't find anything against her but Radzinsky still believes she was evil incarnated and never mind the documents. The fact that woman escaped certain death almost annoys him and reader can feel his irritation with the fact that she wasn't killed in some basement.
Lots of interesting pictures and research is well done,still the writing style could have been better (or should we say,more neutral) but apparently this is a subject where everybody gets one-sided and is difficult to stay calm. I am still waiting for realistic version of Rasputin and someone who will explain his behavior from different perspective,not only as a charlatan,mad monk and hypnotist. I refuse to believe he was evil and even the stories abut his drunken escapades and orgies don't make him less human (on contrary),in fact there was a certain childish innocence abut him specially when (for example) he would rush to visit friends who prepared beatings (or something similar nasty) for him,not even suspecting people hate him. I say,read between the lines. History is written by winners and you can bet media can turn any of us into mad monks,charlatans and whatnot if they lack understanding of what actually happened.
Found this one in local bookshop and of course had to buy it although at this point I am very familiar with the story,but here we have fresh files (unearthed from somewhere and sold on Sotheby's auction,presented as a gift to author),photos and less known characters.
It is a huge,occasionally very exhausting story that covers not only royal family and their inner circle but literally cast of thousands who one way or the other influenced the story,for example we have police file on everybody who has ever visited Rasputin's house,his visits to prostitutes,names of priests he clashed with,politicians who used him (and were used) and so on. Towards the end I must admit I started losing the count who is who and perhaps the book would have benefited from some serious editing but never mind,obviously the author was delighted with access to newly discovered files and I understand the pleasure of dealing with facts instead of second-guessing what actually happened. Hm,we are still talking about the "facts" but must admit these are documents that survived communism so who knows how distilled these "facts" actually are.
At the very first,I thought this might be (finally) a fresh look at character with incredibly bad reputation and something inside still tells me there is a possibility Rasputin's reputation was destroyed by his enemies. But soon it became clear this was not author's intention - Radzinsky is not interested in explanations of how and why,he is focused on messages,letters and interviews (in itself perhaps illusionary as we don't know for sure whom were they sent and what was the story behind it - letters signed with "Darling" could but don't have been sent by Empress,for example). Another thing is,Radzinsky is very one-sided: if he decides against certain character,he will write about him/her with disgust and clearly visible contempt (see Ana Vyrubova) no matter what documents say. Communists have released Vyrubova from prison because they simply couldn't find anything against her but Radzinsky still believes she was evil incarnated and never mind the documents. The fact that woman escaped certain death almost annoys him and reader can feel his irritation with the fact that she wasn't killed in some basement.
Lots of interesting pictures and research is well done,still the writing style could have been better (or should we say,more neutral) but apparently this is a subject where everybody gets one-sided and is difficult to stay calm. I am still waiting for realistic version of Rasputin and someone who will explain his behavior from different perspective,not only as a charlatan,mad monk and hypnotist. I refuse to believe he was evil and even the stories abut his drunken escapades and orgies don't make him less human (on contrary),in fact there was a certain childish innocence abut him specially when (for example) he would rush to visit friends who prepared beatings (or something similar nasty) for him,not even suspecting people hate him. I say,read between the lines. History is written by winners and you can bet media can turn any of us into mad monks,charlatans and whatnot if they lack understanding of what actually happened.
May 5, 2013
Paganism has made an indelible mark in Christianity from the time of its birth, incorporating its antiquated mystic culture into the mainstream of its belief unbeknownst mostly to all, yet it is deeply ingrained in the tradition of the Christian thought. It has somehow created a convoluted world of endless discord in the pursuit of which is the truth, or which is the false.
The mysticism that envelops the figure of Rasputin during the last days of Tsarist Russia best illustrates this fusion of dark sorcery and holiness that literally brought down the entire empire to its knees as it perhaps epitomizes the oscillation of a common man between good and evil, capturing the conflict between the nature of God and the Devil in the battlefield known as the human consciousness.
The mysticism that envelops the figure of Rasputin during the last days of Tsarist Russia best illustrates this fusion of dark sorcery and holiness that literally brought down the entire empire to its knees as it perhaps epitomizes the oscillation of a common man between good and evil, capturing the conflict between the nature of God and the Devil in the battlefield known as the human consciousness.
Without sin there is no life, because there is no repentance, and if there is no repentance, there is no joy.That sinfulness is next to godliness, was Rasputin鈥瞫 famous epitaph, it was his legacy to the world from which salvation from earthly existence can be achieved even through debauchery. It was to willingly succumb into the desires of the flesh in order to exorcise the transient need from the body as a precursor step into holiness. Despite this vile and somewhat ignominious presence during his life at court, the most mysterious part was Empress Alexandra had remained his devout follower as multitudes of other women as well, following the Tsarina鈥瞫 example. This blind devotion to Rasputin was in itself more inexplicable and more mysterious than the mysteries that appeared to surround his character, or was it? It may simply be just an overwhelming mother鈥瞫 love to her sick child that made the empress bow down to him since it was only Rasputin who could cure his ailing son. Perhaps in the depths of her mind, she was ready to give up everything as she became consciously aware of their fall to destruction in exchange of the life of her one and only son, not fully comprehending that in saving his only son, she was preparing the foreground for their own deaths. 鈽锯槸
January 26, 2015
I'd recommend this book - with one caveat - for anyone who's fascinated by early Twentieth Century Russian history, or a general interest in some of the events that led up to the First World War.
The only significant issue it suffers from is the fact that the author and/or translator makes it a rather heavy-going read, so quite a bit of patience is needed to see it through to the end. If you persevere with it though, I'd say it's a thorough and insightful attempt to explain a very complicated and often misinterpreted part of history.
Rasputin's image in popular culture makes it extremely difficult to judge him as a person - even at the time, he was subject to propaganda and rumours that paint him as an evil, quasi-mythological figure. Even today, the name brings up some inaccurate and quite outrageous ideas of who and what he was. Radzinsky makes use of additional evidence that has more recently come to light to make what is I think a worthy attempt to set the record straight. For better or for worse, this humanises Rasputin and helps the reader make up his or her own mind about the man and his life. In some ways, it makes Rasputin even more interesting and of course there's a lot of political and intrigue that motivated the people around him.
After all this time I guess it's nigh-on impossible to find out the truth about what happened, but Radzinsky's take on the events leading up to Rasputin's death in 1916 is a convincing one. He comes across as being refreshingly impartial, presenting testimonies and keeping personal opinion and conjecture to a minimum. I now feel I have a greater understanding of who Rasputin was, and why events turned out the way they did.
Despite the heavy-going style, I now want to track down Radzinsky's other English-translated nonfiction book: his account of the last days of the Romanov dynasty. Because of Rasputin's closeness to the tsar and his family, they too are portrayed in what feels like a fair and balanced way in this book, so I'm confident that the same approach has been taken in telling their story as well.
The only significant issue it suffers from is the fact that the author and/or translator makes it a rather heavy-going read, so quite a bit of patience is needed to see it through to the end. If you persevere with it though, I'd say it's a thorough and insightful attempt to explain a very complicated and often misinterpreted part of history.
Rasputin's image in popular culture makes it extremely difficult to judge him as a person - even at the time, he was subject to propaganda and rumours that paint him as an evil, quasi-mythological figure. Even today, the name brings up some inaccurate and quite outrageous ideas of who and what he was. Radzinsky makes use of additional evidence that has more recently come to light to make what is I think a worthy attempt to set the record straight. For better or for worse, this humanises Rasputin and helps the reader make up his or her own mind about the man and his life. In some ways, it makes Rasputin even more interesting and of course there's a lot of political and intrigue that motivated the people around him.
After all this time I guess it's nigh-on impossible to find out the truth about what happened, but Radzinsky's take on the events leading up to Rasputin's death in 1916 is a convincing one. He comes across as being refreshingly impartial, presenting testimonies and keeping personal opinion and conjecture to a minimum. I now feel I have a greater understanding of who Rasputin was, and why events turned out the way they did.
Despite the heavy-going style, I now want to track down Radzinsky's other English-translated nonfiction book: his account of the last days of the Romanov dynasty. Because of Rasputin's closeness to the tsar and his family, they too are portrayed in what feels like a fair and balanced way in this book, so I'm confident that the same approach has been taken in telling their story as well.
July 7, 2023
It's hard to imagine a biography of Rasputin being complete without the documents that Radzinsky has unearthed. These are the police reports, official testaments and interviews with the different people that had a chance to interact with the man. Long thought destroyed, they magically popped up in an auction in Paris, and as luck would have it Radzinky got a hold of them.
Radzinsky most definitely makes an exhaustive attempt of telling what Rasputin's life was like and who people believed he was as a person. Certainly some people considered him a saint, while others thought of him as more of a vile, treacherous, power-hungry pervert. Whatever the case may be, Rasputin definitely knew how to play the game, and knew how to stay close to the Tsar and Tsarina, even though it became obvious that he is severely lacking in the priestly department (such as speaking in incoherent and confused sentences). How exactly Rasputin was able to treat the young prince also remains unclear, but what matters is that the highly influential Tsarina believed Rasputin to be some sort of God sent which would save Russia (albeit indirectly by saving the heir).
While his life was certainly interesting with the sheer amount of debauchery, whoring, drinking (which would come later), and endless attempts on his life, equally interesting is the plight of the Tsar and Tsarina who are so ignorant and na茂ve that they firmly believe that the plethora of warnings they receive from everyone around them is a test to challenge their faith in God.
And, while the Rasputin File is so chockfull of "characters" with confusing names that it's hard to keep everyone's identity straight, the story it tells and is able to mystify a reader even 100 years after the protagonist has died.
Radzinsky most definitely makes an exhaustive attempt of telling what Rasputin's life was like and who people believed he was as a person. Certainly some people considered him a saint, while others thought of him as more of a vile, treacherous, power-hungry pervert. Whatever the case may be, Rasputin definitely knew how to play the game, and knew how to stay close to the Tsar and Tsarina, even though it became obvious that he is severely lacking in the priestly department (such as speaking in incoherent and confused sentences). How exactly Rasputin was able to treat the young prince also remains unclear, but what matters is that the highly influential Tsarina believed Rasputin to be some sort of God sent which would save Russia (albeit indirectly by saving the heir).
While his life was certainly interesting with the sheer amount of debauchery, whoring, drinking (which would come later), and endless attempts on his life, equally interesting is the plight of the Tsar and Tsarina who are so ignorant and na茂ve that they firmly believe that the plethora of warnings they receive from everyone around them is a test to challenge their faith in God.
And, while the Rasputin File is so chockfull of "characters" with confusing names that it's hard to keep everyone's identity straight, the story it tells and is able to mystify a reader even 100 years after the protagonist has died.
October 13, 2013
I'm just not enough of a history buff to read something quite this detailed, so maybe I have myself to blame for getting bogged down in this. It isn't a bad telling, but it is really detailed at times. And I do have to say that the severe overuse of sentence fragments is pretty distracting.
Having said all of that, the ending is a pretty serious payoff. The author describes "the facts" of what happened the evening of the murder, then tells what he thinks REALLY happened, and that's where it really gets fascinating (and a lot of the overly-detailed portions pay off.) So the ending certainly leaves a solid sense of satisfaction. So: 3 stars.
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But, although I can't really blame the author for this, I do feel obligated to point out that my copy of the book is missing about 30 pages. Apparently, one folio was traded for another during the production process, so I've got two copies of one batch of pages and, presumably, someone has my copy and their copy of the pages I'm missing. So that's really annoying. I'm going to dock a star for this. If mine is the only messed-up copy, it won't matter. But if there are a lot of busted copies, it should hurt the standing of the book, I guess. -1 star.
Having said all of that, the ending is a pretty serious payoff. The author describes "the facts" of what happened the evening of the murder, then tells what he thinks REALLY happened, and that's where it really gets fascinating (and a lot of the overly-detailed portions pay off.) So the ending certainly leaves a solid sense of satisfaction. So: 3 stars.
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But, although I can't really blame the author for this, I do feel obligated to point out that my copy of the book is missing about 30 pages. Apparently, one folio was traded for another during the production process, so I've got two copies of one batch of pages and, presumably, someone has my copy and their copy of the pages I'm missing. So that's really annoying. I'm going to dock a star for this. If mine is the only messed-up copy, it won't matter. But if there are a lot of busted copies, it should hurt the standing of the book, I guess. -1 star.
November 10, 2010
I got this in the Dom Knigi bookstore in St Petersburg in the beautiful old Singer building. I don't know if it was a bad translation or what, but this book was almost unbearable to read, with very awkward, jolting language. Radzinsky is not really a serious historian, but more of a media personality and writer. He seems to follow Alexander Solzhenitsyn's sort of history writing, which is like, semi-fictionalized nonfiction. But the problem was that it felt so poorly written that any power that could come from this kind of narrative was ruined.
Semi-related: A while back I saw Radzinsky being interviewed on NTV shortly after the bodies of Maria or Anastasia and Alexei were found, and he was sputtering with rage about the imbeciles who still insist that these two Romanov children still somehow escaped, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Semi-related: A while back I saw Radzinsky being interviewed on NTV shortly after the bodies of Maria or Anastasia and Alexei were found, and he was sputtering with rage about the imbeciles who still insist that these two Romanov children still somehow escaped, despite all evidence to the contrary.
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