Contents
Foreword xv
Prologue: Sightseeing in St. Petersburg xvii
SASHA 1
Call Me Sasha 2
Jewels 4
The Decembrists 6
Narodnaya Volya 7
May Laws 9
Sic semper tyrannis 11
Bloody Sunday 13
Kiev Pogrom, 1905 15
MARIA 17
Milochka 18
Strannik 20
Rasputin Goes to St. Petersburg 22
Papa Meets Their Majesties 23
Maria Rasputin Leaves Siberia 24
The Yar Scandal 26
Harry Houdini Gets out of Russia Alive 28
Breaking Up 30
Gossip 32
The Miracle at Spala 34
Rasputin the Healer 36
SASHA 39
The Black Princesses 40
Prophecy 42
Ladies’ Man 44
The Prince 46
The Night They Killed Rasputin 48
MARIA 51
A Cold December Night 52
Identifying the Body 53
Mama 55
Maria Rasputin Marries 56
My Sister Varvara 58
Chain Migration 60
Coincidence 62
SASHA 63
Blood 64
Proizvol 65
Byvshie lyudi 66
Protocols 67
Off the Boat 69
One Day in New York 70
The Circus 72
MARIA 75
Maria Rasputin, Lion Tamer 76
Big Top 78
Exposure 80
The Bear 82
Maria the Riveter 84
Riveting 85
Retirement 87
SASHA 89
Operation Former People 90
Yezhovshchina 91
Lev 93
Night of the Murdered Poets 95
The Doctors’ Plot 97
Clothes Make the Woman 99
Otkaznik 101
MARIA 103
The Legend 104
Rasputin’s Eyes 106
SASHA 109
Obituary 110
Hitler Is Alive in Argentina 112
Catastroika 114
Rasputin Rehabilitated 115
Saint Petersburg 116
Glossary 119
Acknowledgements 121
Biographical Note 123
