Rasputin: Myth & Manhood
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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What Really Pissed People Off?
There was this sort of clear class hatred among the nobles and the aristocrats that they were not allowed into the lives of the emperor and the empress. And so gossip spread in the salons and then it goes from the salons, it gets into the newspapers, and from there it takes off. The people who were creating the lies started to believe the lies. They use these as tools to try to drive a wedge between Nicholas and Alexandra and Rasputin.
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