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Marc Koralnik |
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RASPUTIN
A new biography of the most controversial character in Russian history.
Like Caligula, Grigori Rasputin is one of those characters whose dark and omnipresent legend obscures his real story.
The life of the peasant-healer who became a favorite of the imperial couple (Nicolas II and Alexandra) has long fascinated us: his miraculous ability to treat the hemophiliac Tsarevich; his Homeric escapades; his meteoric rise and his mysterious murder, which set the tone for the revolution and eventually led the Romanovs and their autocracy to follow him into the grave.
Considered one of the top specialists of Russian and Soviet history, Alexandre Sumpf sets out to investigate, consulting archives and the vast existing bibliography, most of it in Russian. He tells the story of the man first, and then he explores the multiple layers of his demonization, revealing much about the successive metamorphoses of Russia in the twentieth century.
ALEXANDRE SUMPF is a lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Strasbourg. He attended the prestigious Ecole normale supérieure and holds a doctorate in history. His first books De Lénine à Gagarine. Une histoire sociale de l'URSS (Lenin to Gagarin. A social history of the USSR, Gallimard, 2013) and La Grande Guerre oubliée. Russie, 1914-1918 (The Great Forgotten War. Russia, 1914-1918, Perrin,2014) brought him immediate recognition as one of the most promising historians of his generation.
The life of the peasant-healer who became a favorite of the imperial couple (Nicolas II and Alexandra) has long fascinated us: his miraculous ability to treat the hemophiliac Tsarevich; his Homeric escapades; his meteoric rise and his mysterious murder, which set the tone for the revolution and eventually led the Romanovs and their autocracy to follow him into the grave.
Considered one of the top specialists of Russian and Soviet history, Alexandre Sumpf sets out to investigate, consulting archives and the vast existing bibliography, most of it in Russian. He tells the story of the man first, and then he explores the multiple layers of his demonization, revealing much about the successive metamorphoses of Russia in the twentieth century.
ALEXANDRE SUMPF is a lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Strasbourg. He attended the prestigious Ecole normale supérieure and holds a doctorate in history. His first books De Lénine à Gagarine. Une histoire sociale de l'URSS (Lenin to Gagarin. A social history of the USSR, Gallimard, 2013) and La Grande Guerre oubliée. Russie, 1914-1918 (The Great Forgotten War. Russia, 1914-1918, Perrin,2014) brought him immediate recognition as one of the most promising historians of his generation.
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Published 2016-11-01 by Perrin |