The Tsar's Favourite

This book by the well-known writer and historian Valery Povolyaev is devoted to one of the iconic figures who appeared at the end of the Russian Empire—Grigory Rasputin.

A novel-chronicle, a novel-research, shows the famous “elder” at the height of his power, but already one step away from death.

Another work about Rasputin served as a kind of recurring refrain—the novel “Unclean Power,” written by the classic of Russian historical prose Valentin Pikul: in the life of Rasputin, who had enormous influence on the royal family, there is a whole series of documented episodes that are hard to call mere coincidence.

They seem more like sorcery or even a miracle. But can unclean power work true miracles? Only a bright beginning can do that…