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In an endeavor similar to his debut novel, The Kitchen
Boy, Alexander couples extensive research and poetic license,
this time turning his enthusiasm toward perhaps the most intriguing
player in the collapse of the Russian dynasty: Rasputin. This
eyebrow-raising account of the final week of the notorious mystic''s
life is set in Petrograd in December 1916 and narrated by
Rasputin''s fiery teenage daughter, Maria. The air in the newly
renamed capital is thick with dangerous rumors, many conc
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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.
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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.
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