Rasputin and The End of Empire - Hardback

The first seriously critical reconstruction of what happened in the last tsar's court and how it serendipitously came to involve a wandering amateur monk.Originally a bulging six-hundred page volume under the title The Political Influence of Rasputin this work was only seen by scholars digging through university archives. Literary qualities in its narrative approach led Kilcoyne to abridge edit and retitle the material for a broader publication but a series of setbacks and lack of time delayed this indefinitely. The type-written drafts were kept in a briefcase half-forgotten in storage until conversations led to its surfacing. The contents of this volume are a blend of these two remaining drafts complete with full annotations and appendices.