The End of Rasputin

5 hrs. 37 min.

Language Russian

Author Felix Yusupov

Narrator Sergey Chonishvili

To avoid severe disappointments and mistakes in the future, you must understand the errors of the past—to know the truth of yesterday. When Rasputin stood like a black shadow by the throne, all of Russia was indignant. The best representatives of the highest clergy raised their voices to defend the church and the Motherland from the attacks of this criminal charlatan. The sovereign and the empress were pleaded with to remove Rasputin by people closest to the royal family. Everything was in vain. His dark influence only grew stronger—and along with it, discontent in the country intensified, spreading even into the most remote corners of Russia, where ordinary people, by a true instinct, sensed that something was wrong at the top of power. “The man in greasy boots,” as he spoke of himself, “entered the palace and strolled across the royal parquet.” With those filthy boots, he trampled the people’s age-old faith in the purity and justice of serving the Tsar. And so, when Rasputin was murdered, his death was met with universal rejoicing.

In the memoir book “The End of Rasputin,” Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov—an immediate participant in the plot and organizer of Rasputin’s assassination—describes in detail the reasons for killing the “starets,” and all the events that preceded it.

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