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Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs History Black Elk Speaks is unforgettableFrom one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of historys most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the imperial household, contributed to the collapse of the greatest autocracy in the world When Russia's Dowager Empress was pregnant with the future Tsar, she dreamed that a peasant would one day kill her son. The idea terrified her, and for the rest of her days she 'lived