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Signed 1st edition of memoirs by his daughter The Russian Shop / Maison Russe 800-778-9404
Rasputin: The Man Behind the Myth - A Personal Memoir. By Maria Rasputin (Mariia Grigor'evna Rasputina) and Patte Barham. Maria (born Matryona) Grigor'evna Rasputina (1898-1977) was the daughter of the notorious Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin and his wife Praskovia Fyodorovna Dubrovina. Rasputin's two daughters were living with him in a small apartment in St. Petersburg when he was lured to a party at the home of Felix Youssupov. Subsequently, they assisted in identifying him as the assassin's target. (Much later, she named two pet dogs Youssou and Pov.) In April of 1918, as the Tsar and Tsarina were traveling to Ekaterinburg, Alexandra glimpsed Rasputin's family and friends staring at them from the window of Rasputin's house. Maria worked as a cabaret dancer in Bucharest and as a lion tamer for Ringling Brothers Circus (her image ended up on a box of Wheaties!). She wrote several memoirs about her father's life, experiences with Nicholas and Alexandra and their children, and about his murder. NJ: Prentice Hall, 1977. First edition, hardcover with dustjacket. Signed by Maria Rasputin on verso of free front end page, illustrated endpapers. 266 pages including index. Minor publisher's defect on first free endpaper(edge flaw), top of spine bumped, otherwise fine. Back to Out of Print Books Connoisseur of Old Russia |
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