Rasputin: Myth & Manhood
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The Life of a Peasant in Siberia
He was born into a peasant family in western Siberia, later part of the 19th century. He had some sort of strange religious experience as a young man and set off wandering all over Russia to find enlightenment. "So much of his past is literally shrouded in myth and legend," he says.
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