Rasputin and His Russian Queen

Rasputin''s relationship with Russia''s last Tsarina, Alexandra, notorious from the famous Boney M song, has never been adequately addressed; biographies are always for one or the other, or simply Alexandra and her husband Nicholas. In this new work, Mickey Mayhew reimagines Alexandra for the #MeToo generation: ''neurotic''; ''hysterical''; ''credulous'' and ''fanatical'' are shunted aside in favo...