Rasputin: The Untold Story
Joseph Fuhrmann

Rasputin, the Untold Story, will be the first biography of the Siberian adventurer to appear in over thirty years. It is also the first study of Rasputin to draw fully on archives closed to foreign scholars before the collapse of the USSR. Dr. Joseph T. Fuhrmann is the world’s leading authority on Rasputin, and his command of Russian enabled him to study forgotten documents in Moscow’s Central State Archive, as well as obscure repositories in Siberia. This eloquently written biography offers exciting new information and insights concerning

• Rasputin’s Siberian background and early years.
• His introduction to Nicholas II and Alexandra and his ability to control their son’s painful afflictions with hemophilia.
• Rasputin’s unorthodox religious teachings and the sexual practices that tied his followers into a cult.
• His relations with the Empress, including the continuing speculation that they were lovers.
• The incredible power the peasant came to wield in the Russian government and Church.
• His relations with prostitutes and homosexuals and the latest allegations that Rasputin was bi-sexual.
• Rasputin’s murder and the recent theory that it was planned and carried out by BSIS, the British Secret Information Service.
• Russians’ enduring fascination with Rasputin and efforts to see him recognized as a saint.

Rasputin, the Untold Story is an unforgettable journey into the twilight world of Late Imperial Russia.