On the morning of December 29, 1916, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was startled by a phone call that turned out to be yet another death threat. His daughter, Maria, later remembered that it put him in a ...

This book gets rid of the many myths about Rasputin. Secondarily it explains Rasputin’s small but important role in the Russian Revolution. Douglas Smith retells each myth, not revealing at first that ...