About the book: 2022 / The book by René Fulop-Miller, a cultural historian, is a successful attempt to reveal the phenomenon of Grigory Rasputin, the "great old man" ", "royal friend", "seer and healer". Based on official documents - police reports, letters, original testimonies, etc., the author tried to objectively present a portrait of an extremely extraordinary, extraordinary, difficult person, on whom the cliche of “the devil in the flesh” was based. Being strong, strong-willed, generously gifted by nature, Rasputin is neither ideally good nor absolutely bad; he is shown with all his weaknesses. The contradictory attitude of the people around him towards him - from pious reverence to frantic hatred - only deepens the interest in his personality. Against the background of the image of Rasputin, the characteristics of that difficult pre-revolutionary time are given. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.