Ok, I admit that it was over 10 years ago since I read the book, when I was writing an academic essay on the man. But I think it is fair, because it is one of the first books that actually treats G.Y. Rasputin as a
person not a
beast. Of course other writers and historians have made the same efforts after that. I however think that Colin Wilson broke a very tiresome line of books and stories on the theme "evil monk seduced hysterical tsarina". And he did it in a way that makes us at least get an inkling of the real man behind all the fictional trash. That is a very important achivement in my opinion.
What we then acutally
feel about the man GY Rasputin is another issue, better discussed on the Rasputin-forum.
//Grigorevna
