Rasputin the Rascal Monk

From a modest village in Siberia, a man with a criminal past and a talent for self-invention rises to become advisor to the Tsar and Tsarina. In his study of the infamous Rasputin, William Le Queux argues that the “mad monk” was more than meets the eye. Not content to be an egomaniac, Rasputin was a spy for the Kaiser himself.

About the author

Anglo-French journalist and author William Tufnell Le Queux was born on July 2, 1864, and died on October 13, 1927. He was also a diplomat (honorary consul for San Marino), a traveler (in Europe, the Balkans, and North Africa), a fan of flying (he presided over the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909), and a wireless pioneer who played music on his own station long before radio was widely available. However, he often exaggerated his own skills and accomplishments. The Great War in England in 1897 (1894), a fantasy about an invasion by France and Russia, and The Invasion of 1910 (1906), a fantasy about an invasion by Germany, are his best-known works. Le Queux was born in the city. The man who raised him was English, and his father was French. He went to school in Europe and learned art in Paris from Ignazio (or Ignace) Spiridon. As a young man, he walked across Europe and then made a living by writing for French newspapers. He moved back to London in the late 1880s and managed the magazines Gossip and Piccadilly. In 1891, he became a parliamentary reporter for The Globe. He stopped working as a reporter in 1893 to focus on writing and traveling.

Product details

• Authors: William Le Queux, William Le Queux
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2021
• EAN: 9781513277806
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-7780-6
• No. of pages: 126
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Mint Editions; Mint Editions—Nonfiction Narratives: Essays, Speeches and Full-Length Work; Mint Editions (Nonfiction Narratives: Essays, Speeches and Full-Length Work)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Russia, European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions