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Died. Prince Felix Youssoupoff, 80, gentlemanly assassin of Czarist Russia's "Mad Monk," Rasputin; of a stroke; in Paris. Heir to one of his nation's greatest fortunes (an estimated $350 million), Youssoupoff plotted with other noblemen in 1916 to murder Rasputin because of his hypnotic hold on the Czarina. As the Prince told it, he lured the holy man to his palace, where it took a combination of cyanide, five bullets and a bludgeoning to accomplish the deed. A refugee in France after the Revolution, Youssoupoff fought several court battles over its dramatization. Most recently he lost...
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. In telling the tragic story of Czar Nicholas II and his wife, the last of the Romanov dynasty, Author Massie stresses the crucial role of Rasputin in discrediting the imperial family in the people's eyes...
...Innocents. The old sinister horror movie of Rasputin has had many reruns. What is new about the Massie version is the credible manner in which he puts the obscene Rasputin goings-on into the context of the Romanov court -at once bizarre and simple, familiar and ceremonious-fatally rooted in the half-barbaric system of old Muscovy...
...unpleasant feature was the omnipresent police spies among the innumerable servants-a part of the monarchical system that the Bolsheviks have enthusiastically retained. And there was Rasputin. The people might not have grudged the Czar his splendor, but Rasputin was too much. Through his infatuation with the dirty monk, Nicky was finally severed from the people who he believed worshiped...
Only a Tolstoy could do justice to the domestic story of Nicky and Alicky -its innocence, affections and jumble of family emotions. Only a Dostoevsky could do justice to the story of the Romanovs and Rasputin. Author Massie's history covers two terrible decades in European history and recreates the doomed Romanovs with admirable clar ity. The icons have gone, but a sad faded photograph remains...