Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 242, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1929 — Page 9

i'EB. 27. 1929.

HOLDING MIRROR UP TO RASPUTIN * —. . ■ We Probably Get Nearer trie Truth to This Weird Character Who Is Accused of Wrecking an Empire. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN WE PROBABLY get nearer the truth regarding Rasputin in the best non-fiction seller written by Rene Fulop-Miller under the title of “Rasputin, the Holy Devil." than in any other work. There arc many arguments to substantiate my statement because his hrok Is backed up with depositions, reports and letters of documentary importance as well as an exhaustive study of the subject. While reading this really lengthy work, I always had the impression tlrnt the author did not like Rasputin or dislike him but rather desired to hold the mirror of life up to the subject and permit the real Rasputin to be reflected.

The author in his introduction writes: “It was the recognition, after an unprejudiced investigation of all the available materials, that it was no longer possible to assign Rasputin with justice to either of those two commonplace categories, r-h&rlatan or holy sCarets, that led ne author to write this book. Rasputin was neither entirely bad nor entirely good, he was neither altogether a libertine nor a saint. He was a man of rich nature and exuberant vitality, endowed with many good qualities and cursed with many weaknesses, a man so many-sided, complex and contradictory, that an adequate delineation of his character calls for a far more exact and careful examination of all the pros and cons than any one has yet attempted.” And yet I found proof that Rasputin, the monk, was on many occasions a libertine aid a degenerate with both men and women. There is ample proof that he worked his spells on the family of the czar, especially the empress, who .was, always either fighting to give the country an heir to the throne or to keep him alive. Only the Russian court in the clays before its complete downfall would suffer such a person as Rasputin and the army of alleged “miracle” to penetrate even the chambers of the imperial family; to become the dictator of nearly all Russia; to be the real power behind the throne—and more to sway the private "and the official actions of the the czar and his family. I am sure that most readers will not be able to refrain from sympathy at times for the empress. Her problems were always those of a royal prisoner. This book gives a most intimate study of the life of the czar and his family. The author has given unlimited study to the question of just why Rasputin was Rasputin in Russia. The book contains police observations on Rasputin, his complete surrender to drink and to his- animal passions. And yet even the czar or the empress would not or refused to believe these reports of their powerful confideiftial agents. Often, many times, Rapsutin was was right in policy, and the very next second who would be demanding that the czar appoint a most

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