23 JUNE 1928, Page 18

Herr Fiilop-Miller has collected material from numerous official documents with

great diligence, and in Der Heilige Teufel (Grethlein, Leipzig) he gives a true picture— historical and psychological—of Rasputin and the Russian Imperial family The reader is shocked by the terrible but fascinating descriptions of the background against which Rasputin and the Romanoffs moved. The book is very interesting as a study of Russian social and political conditions under the Tsarist regime, and we understand an English translation will be published this autumn.

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