Rasputin and his Russian Queen - The True Story of Grigory and Alexandra (Hardcover)

RASPUTIN'S RELATIONSHIP with Russia's last Tsarina, Alexandra, notorious from the famous Boney M song, has never been adequately addressed; biographies are always for one or the other, or simply Alexandra and her husband Nicholas. In this new work, Mickey Mayhew reimagines Alexandra for the #MeToo generation; 'neurotic'; 'hysterical'; 'credulous' and 'fanatical' are shunted aside in favour of a sympathetic reimagining of a reserved and pious woman tossed into the heart of Russian aristocracy, with the sole purpose of providing their patriarchal monarchy with an heir. When her longed-for son then developed haemophilia, she turned to the one man capable of curing the child's agonising pain - Grigory Rasputin. Some say that between them, Grigory and Alexandra brought down 300 years of Romanov rule and ushered in the Russian Revolution, but theirs was simply the story of a mother fighting for the health of her son against a backdrop of bigotry, sexism and increasing secularism. She liked to pray and he liked to party, but when they found themselves steering Russia through the First World War, her gender and his class gave society no option but to destroy them. Bubbling with his trademark bon mots, Mickey Mayhew's latest book breathes fresh life into two of history's most fascinating - and polarising - figures. This is the real story of Rasputin and his Russian Queen.

General

Imprint:	Pen & Sword History
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2023
Authors:	Mickey Mayhew
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-399-08367-6
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-399-08367-8
Barcode:	9781399083676

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