How a barely literate Siberian peasant came to sit close enough to the Russian throne to influence its fate is the question this history sets out to answer.
Rasputin held no office and commanded nothing, yet the scandal attached to his presence around Nicholas II and Alexandra did more to hollow out the dynasty than any organised opposition. The book traces that strange proximity, the rumours that spread through the officer corps, and the reason so few were willing to defend the regime when the February Revolution arrived. It also treats the legend itself as a subject, asking what the endurance of the story says about the great man theory and about the power of myth to outlive evidence.
Where the argument lands:
• The relationship between Rasputin and the imperial family examined in detail
• Rumour and reputation treated as forces with real political consequences
• The collapse of the Romanov autocracy set against the wider war years
• A running question about how much one individual can shift history
For readers of Russian history, narrative non-fiction and accounts of how regimes come apart. Stocked at Boipoka.
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