Book Reading.......
Feb. 11th, 2018 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disneydream06I FINALLY finished up book No. 4.
First I have to apologize tocmcmck.
I took this book from her reading list, but I have to admit I really did not care for it. :o
I read "Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs" by Douglas Smith.
It's a bio of the religious man Grigory Rasputin who down through history has been forever linked to the downfall of the Russian Royal family and last Tsar the Romanovs. The book/author spends 680 pages saying that every thing that has ever been said against Rasputin was a lie. He was not bad, or evil. He didn't bring about the downfall of the Romanovs. He says he was a good religious man who everybody else was just jealous of.
I just find it hard to believe that the entire of history is wrong and he alone found all this evidence to the contrary.
He pretty much calls everyone that spoke against Rasputin liars or untrustworthy. And everybody that spoke in his favor were speaking the honest truth.
He talks at length of the men Rasputin told the Tsar or his wife, to tell the Tsar, to hire into certain government jobs, then in the next breath deny the accusations that were made against him for doing just that.
I read one other book that was just like this. It was about the last Dowager Empress of China, who was nicknamed The Dragon Lady because of her supposedly evil ways. The author spent the entire big book saying she was just misunderstood and wasn't that way at all.
I will admit that Rasputin probably didn't do everything he was accused of doing, but really can the entire of history be wrong?
Again, I am soooooo sorrycmcmck. I feel so bad for not liking the book I took from your reading list. :o
Next book is small, has pictures, and should be quite entertaining. :p
Book List 2018
January
1. Micah by Laurell K. Hamiton
2. The Clocks by Agatha Christie
3. Gold Dust Woman by Stephen Davis
February
4. Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs by Douglas Smith
First I have to apologize to
cmcmck.I took this book from her reading list, but I have to admit I really did not care for it. :o
I read "Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs" by Douglas Smith.
It's a bio of the religious man Grigory Rasputin who down through history has been forever linked to the downfall of the Russian Royal family and last Tsar the Romanovs. The book/author spends 680 pages saying that every thing that has ever been said against Rasputin was a lie. He was not bad, or evil. He didn't bring about the downfall of the Romanovs. He says he was a good religious man who everybody else was just jealous of.
I just find it hard to believe that the entire of history is wrong and he alone found all this evidence to the contrary.
He pretty much calls everyone that spoke against Rasputin liars or untrustworthy. And everybody that spoke in his favor were speaking the honest truth.
He talks at length of the men Rasputin told the Tsar or his wife, to tell the Tsar, to hire into certain government jobs, then in the next breath deny the accusations that were made against him for doing just that.
I read one other book that was just like this. It was about the last Dowager Empress of China, who was nicknamed The Dragon Lady because of her supposedly evil ways. The author spent the entire big book saying she was just misunderstood and wasn't that way at all.
I will admit that Rasputin probably didn't do everything he was accused of doing, but really can the entire of history be wrong?
Again, I am soooooo sorry
cmcmck. I feel so bad for not liking the book I took from your reading list. :oNext book is small, has pictures, and should be quite entertaining. :p
Book List 2018
January
1. Micah by Laurell K. Hamiton
2. The Clocks by Agatha Christie
3. Gold Dust Woman by Stephen Davis
February
4. Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs by Douglas Smith
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Date: 2018-02-11 03:11 pm (UTC)Rasputin was a strange man and he was dealing with strange people in the Russian royal family but nothing he did can be perceived as evil- just misguided.
The man to blame for the fall of Czarist Russia was Nicholas II, not Rasputin.
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Date: 2018-02-11 03:21 pm (UTC)Nicholas, Alexandra, Rasputin, the whole Royal family, the Church, even the People themselves can take some of it.
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Date: 2018-02-11 03:26 pm (UTC)No one was forced to listen to Grigori Yefimovich.
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Date: 2018-02-11 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-11 03:41 pm (UTC)He hated the thought of war.
He hated to see people suffer illness- he genuinely appears to have helped the young prince with his illness.
He also appears to have truly loved his own child- his daughter.
His only real greed appears to have been for sweet, sticky things and he isn't alone in that.
He's way more complex than is usually believed.
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Date: 2018-02-11 03:49 pm (UTC)And you have to admit he did interfere with the government.
Would Nicholas have done better on his own? Probably not, but Rasputin did pick the people he wanted in office.
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Date: 2018-02-11 04:00 pm (UTC)And the people he picked were probably no worse than the Czar would have picked left to himself- Nicholas was a hopeless judge of character. Protopopov ffs? Everyone except Nicholas appears to have known that he was suffering from terminal paralysis of the insane!
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Date: 2018-02-11 04:02 pm (UTC)I love that. lol...