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Rasputin: Myth & Manhood
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Alexandra and Rasputin
There's nothing to suggest that there was any sort of sexual relationship between the Empress, Alexandra and Rasputin. I don't think she ever would have thought of cheating on Nicholas, who she truly loved. The enemies of the monarchy wanted to present it as bankrupt, as morally corrupt. One way of doing that was to present Alexandra as basically the whore of this Russian charlatan. This is also something you see like, for example, in the way Catherine the Great has been described.
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