Robert Alexander - Rasputin's Daughter
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (December 26, 2006) | Language: English | EPUB + MOBI | 304 pages | 0.6 mb + 1.2 mb
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (December 26, 2006) | Language: English | EPUB + MOBI | 304 pages | 0.6 mb + 1.2 mb
In The Kitchen Boy (2003), Alexander creatively imagined an answer to the mystery of the last days of the Russian imperial family during the revolution--the question centering on whether any family member survived the slaughter in the basement of their Siberian house of exile. Now he ventures into the -never--cleared-up last days of Gregory Rasputin, the monk who held sway at the prerevolution court. Employing the fast pace of a thriller and the ability to make a remote historical episode personal to the reader, Alexander views events from the perspective of Rasputin's elder daughter, Maria. World War I rages on, and the auxiliary members of the Romanov family are fit to be tied over Empress Alexandra's obsessive need for the ministrations of the hated Rasputin; Maria soon realizes her father's life is truly in jeopardy. What finally happens to him involves not only conspiracy within the imperial family but also a personal betrayal by a young man Maria had fallen for. The author lends great understanding to the time and to actual historical figures.
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