Sheryl Z. (szamp) reviewed on 11/15/2009 + 25 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

As I read this book I found it hard to believe that Rasputin's actual daughter was as heroic as Robert Alexander's fictionalized version. I wish I would have read the final few pages 'what happened to the character's real people" first. This would have made the story more plausible. I loved "The Kitchen Boy" but as I read "Rasputin's daughter" I found myself thinking "how could all this action have happened to a sheltered young Russian Women in the space of one week?" Then when I learned that Matryona Rasputina was indeed the only member of her family to live into old age, surviving Stalin & a bear mauling. She was a cabaret dancer, a handler of wild beasts & a riveter She lead a most unconventional life & knowing this made the fictional character more believable. I would love to read her biography/autobiography.

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