Rasputin's Daughter: A Novel (A Romanov Novel) - Softcover

Alexander, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143038656 ISBN 13: 9780143038658

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2006

Synopsis

From the author of the national bestseller The Kitchen Boy comes a gripping historical novel about imperial Russia’s most notorious figure

Called “brilliant” by USA Today, Robert Alexander’s historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once again conjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinary depth and suspense. In the wake of the Russian Revolution, Maria Rasputin—eldest of the Rasputin children—recounts her infamous father’s final days, building a breathless narrative of intrigue, excess, and conspiracy that reveals the shocking truth of her father’s end and the identity of those who arranged it. What emerges is a nail-biting, richly textured new take on one of history’s most legendary episodes.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Alexander has studied at Leningrad State University, worked for the U.S. government in the former U.S.S.R., and traveled extensively throughout Russia.

From AudioFile:

This work of fiction is an interesting look at the "bad boy" of Russian history, Rasputin. Through the story of his daughter, Maria's, supposed interrogation by the poet Aleksandr Blok, as well as recollections by Rasputin's assassin, Count Yousoupoff, we are given a look at the last week of the mystic. Josephine Bailey gives life to this work with her spirited performance. She is energetic and lively as we hear the 18-year-old daughter describe her father's last week on earth. The Maria we hear is filled with the energy of adolescence as well as its naïveté and strong-mindedness. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0143038656
• ISBN 13: 9780143038658
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304