Volume 51, Number 6 · April 8, 2004
Murder, Russian Style
By Orlando Figes
Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia's Mission to the Shah of Persia
by Laurence Kelly
I.B. Tauris, 314 pp., $45.00;$24.50 (paper)
The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia
by Richard Pipes
Yale University Press, 153 pp., $22.95
Lost Splendour:The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin
by Prince Felix Youssoupoff, translated from the French by Ann Green and Nicholas Katkoff
Helen Marx Books, 314 pp., $21.95
Poem, 4036 words
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