Rasputin : The Saint Who Sinned by Brian Moynahan

Rasputin : The Saint Who Sinned by Brian Moynahan 1999 Trade Paperback, Like New Lecherous, filthy and ambitious, the Siberian-born Grigory Rasputin achieved influence as a starets--a Russian Orthodox mystic and guru. Moynahan (Claws of the Bear) writes with authority about one of the century's least attractive power brokers, a man who owed his opportunities to a genetic legacy of Queen Victoria, whose daughters carried the blood disease of hemophilia into the next generation. Fast shipper!