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Harold Shukman

Rasputin

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The perfect introduction to the man whose dark arts caused scandal across Russia.
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82 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2011
Publication year
2011
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  • Maria Rosashas quoted4 years ago
    The task facing Nicholas was enormous.
  • Maria Rosashas quoted4 years ago
    marched towards the Winter Palace in St Petersburg with demands for economic and political improvements. The troops fired warning shots, and then opened fire on the crowd. Several hundred were killed and injured, and Nicholas II was cursed as Nicholas the Bloody
  • Maria Rosashas quoted4 years ago
    throne in 1894, the year of his marriage to Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, German by title but English by upbringing. On becoming a Romanov, Alix adopted Orthodox Christianity and changed her name to Alexandra, adopting the patronymic Fedorovna required of Russian empresses.
    Nicholas’s father, Alexander III, had ruled since 1881, applying economic policies designed to stimulate industry, business and commerce, and with dramatic success. By the end of the century Russia had been transformed into a major player in the world league of oil, steel, coal and wheat producers. But economic success brought with it industrial unrest, the organization of workers in illegal trade unions and their political agitation by Marxist revolutionaries

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