Rasputin and his Russian Queen
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Rasputin and his Russian Queen

The True Story of Grigory and Alexandra

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Rasputin and his Russian Queen

The True Story of Grigory and Alexandra

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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 favor 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 the son she prayed for turns out to be a hemophiliac, she forms a friendship with the one man capable of curing the child's agonizing attacks. Some say that between them, Grigori 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. Bubbling with his trademark bon mots, Mickey Mayhew's new book breathes fresh life into two of history's most fascinating - and polarizing - figures. She liked to pray and he liked to party, but when they found themselves steering Russia into the First World War, her gender and his class meant that society simply had to crush them. This is the real story of Rasputin and his Russian queen, Alexandra.

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Publisher
Pen and Sword History
Year
2023
ISBN
9781399083683
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Foreword
  7. Russian Dating
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 The Boy from Siberia
  10. Chapter 2 Queen Victoria’s Favourite
  11. Chapter 3 Praskovya
  12. Chapter 4 Nicky
  13. Chapter 5 Becoming ‘The Russian Queen’
  14. Chapter 6 The Mauve Boudoir
  15. Chapter 7 Olga
  16. Chapter 8 Tatiana
  17. Chapter 9 Maria
  18. Chapter 10 Anastasia
  19. Chapter 11 Maria Rasputin, mainly
  20. Chapter 12 Monsieur Philippe
  21. Chapter 13 The Bleeding Boy
  22. Chapter 14 When Grigory met Alexandra
  23. Chapter 15 Our Friend
  24. Chapter 16 The Empress and the Cow
  25. Chapter 17 ‘Love’ letters lost
  26. Chapter 18 Spala
  27. Chapter 19 A Shooting in Sarajevo
  28. Chapter 20 Saint Alexandra
  29. Chapter 21 Nicky Ascendant
  30. Chapter 22 Rasputin Rules Russia
  31. Chapter 23 The Crossdressing Prince
  32. Chapter 24 17th December 1916
  33. Chapter 25 Royalty Ruined
  34. Chapter 26 Rasputin Exhumed
  35. Chapter 27 Exile
  36. Chapter 28 Ekaterinburg
  37. Chapter 29 17 July 1918
  38. Chapter 30 Grigory and Alexandra – An Afterlife in Popular Culture
  39. Select Bibliography
  40. Plates Section