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Politics and government, Court and courtiers, Biography, History, Rasputin, grigori efimovich, 1869-1916, Romanov, house of, Russia (federation), biography, Russia (federation), history, Russia (federation), politics and government, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Historical, HISTORY, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Courts and courtiersPlaces
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Rasputin: faith, power, and the twilight of the Romanovs
2016, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
- First American edition.
0374240841 9780374240844
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"Originally published in 2016 by Mantle, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, Great Britain"--Title-page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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