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Rasputin: Myth & Manhood
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Rasputin - Is That Not Sex?
Rasputin had this carefully choreographed, mystic, slightly sensual, naughty, risque that it sort of preceded him and helped him with that stare and that energy. He's got a hell of a gaze, but he also looks like he's been dragged through a hedge. And apparently he stank. Is that right? He smelt really bad. So much of that, I really think, was created by the upper classes who refused to recognize that a peasant could be clean, presentable. It was sort of a class hatred that they couldn't stand. We know that he would go to the public baths all the time, and basically he didn't stink to high heaven
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