Rasputin [Memoir by his daughter]

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Rasputin: The Man Behind the Myth (A Personal Memoir). Maria Rasputin and Patte Barham. A colorful account of Grigori Rasputin (18969-1916) by his daughter, Maria Grigorievna (1898-1977). She draws on stories that were told to her by her father, her mother and his wife, Praskovya Fyodorovna Dubrovina, and her youngest sister, Varvara (1900-1925). Other source information includes a recorded account of Rasputin's life by the family servant, Dunia, who was Rasputin's life-long friend and mistress, and a second mother, and confidante to Maria, and information supplied by members of the Russian court of Tsar Nikolas and Tsarina Aleksandra. Maria Rasputin created a remarkable memoir of her father. Co-author Patte Barham does add a questionable epilogue with information about a secret sect in Paris that apparently worships Rasputin. This is not the definitive biography, as Rasputin's history is constantly in the sights of revisionist history, but still a worthwhile first-person account of the one who was close to him. Maria, too, lived an interesting life as circus performer with Berlin's Busch Circus, in which she would don a Russian costume and fend off an actor dressed as her father. 

NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover, 266 pages, photo section, illustrated endpapers. Dustjacket in a protective clear jacket cover. Text about fine condition, jacket has slight wear, not price-clipped ($10). 1 copy only.