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- Herausgeber: Charles River Editors
- Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
- Serie: Russian Legends
- Sprache: Englisch
A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ Russian Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of Russia’s most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.
The world has never had its shortage of legends surrounding the lives of supposed mystics, visionaries, and prophets. But few have ever grabbed a hold on pop culture quite like that of Grigori Rasputin, one of the most shadowy and mysterious figures in Russian history.
Naturally, what makes Rasputin one of the 20th century’s most colorful and memorable figures is what we do not know. It is unclear how much basis in fact accounts of Rasputin’s life truly hold, since the sources mostly consist of memoirs, hearsay and embellished legend. Some contemporaries considered him a saintly mystic, psychic, healer and prophet, while others considered him a debauched heretic. The extent to which he beguiled the ruling Romanovs, and how he did so, remain mysterious as well.
It’s hard to kill a legend, and that has literally been the case with Rasputin, whose death remains the most legendary aspect of his life. Perhaps the best known part of the Rasputin story is that his murderers practically had to kill him 10 times to finish him off, using everything from poison to bullets to drowning. Naturally, exactly how Rasputin actually died remains a source of controvery as well.
Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Rasputin explores Rasputin’s life in an attempt to separate fact from fiction, analyzing the role he played among the Romanovs and discussing the legends of his life and death. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Rasputin like you never have before, in no time at all.
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Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Rasputin
By Charles River Editors
About Charles River Editors
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Introduction
Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916)
A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ Russian Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of Russia’s most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.
The world has never had its shortage of legends surrounding the lives of supposed mystics, visionaries, and prophets. But few have ever grabbed a hold on pop culture quite like that of Grigori Rasputin, one of the most shadowy and mysterious figures in Russian history.
Naturally, what makes Rasputin one of the 20th century’s most colorful and memorable figures is what we do not know. It is unclear how much basis in fact accounts of Rasputin’s life truly hold, since the sources mostly consist of memoirs, hearsay and embellished legend. Some contemporaries considered him a saintly mystic, psychic, healer and prophet, while others considered him a debauched heretic. The extent to which he beguiled the ruling Romanovs, and how he did so, remain mysterious as well.
It’s hard to kill a legend, and that has literally been the case with Rasputin, whose death remains the most legendary aspect of his life. Perhaps the best known part of the Rasputin story is that his murderers practically had to kill him 10 times to finish him off, using everything from poison to bullets to drowning. Naturally, exactly how Rasputin actually died remains a source of controvery as well.
Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Rasputin explores Rasputin’s life in an attempt to separate fact from fiction, analyzing the role he played among the Romanovs and discussing the legends of his life and death. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Rasputin like you never have before, in no time at all.
Rasputin surrounded by devotees, 1914
Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Rasputin
About Charles River Editors
Introduction
Chapter 1: Rasputin’s Early Years
Chapter 2: A Holy Man?
Healing the Tsarevich
A Friend
Acquiring Enemies
Chapter 3: Rasputin’s Influence and World War I
Chapter 4: Rasputin’s Death
Chapter 5: The Legend of Rasputin
Chapter 1: Rasputin’s Early Years
The famous Russian mystic whom some called the “Mad Monk” was born the son of humble peasants on January 10, 1869 in the small village of Pokrovskoye, now known as Tiumen Oblast, on the Tura River in Siberia. There, in the shadow of the Ural Mountains, a small band of peasants made their living outside of a tiny town with only a few dirt streets but many large wooden homes decorated with the intricate “gingerbread” carving so popular at that time in Russia. Not long after his birth, his parents carried their new baby to the beautiful white church in the center of town and beneath its gilded dome had him baptized Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin.
Little Grigori appears to have been different, even as a child. A modern psychologist looking at his early life would not be surprised that he turned out to be something of a social misfit. He did after all have several strikes against him, even from the beginning.
First, there was the very name he was born with. While Rasputin is a common enough name in Russia, it is also one that would lend itself well to derision. It bears an unfortunate resemblance to the Russian word for “licentious,” rasputny and was possibly a derivative of “Rasputa,” which meant ill-behaved child. Some historians have speculated that the basis of the name had its origins in the words signifying "a place where two rivers meet", but that certainly wouldn’t have meant anything to outsiders. Thus, when he started school, there were no doubt many children (and perhaps even a few adults) who were less inclined to think well of him just because of his family name.
