The Possessed “If you awaken the Rasputin in yourself, life suddenly overflows its banks: you begin to experience a fierce, incomparable joy from being in a state of outrageousness, dissipation, restlessness, suffering, and desecration. ‘Violence is the soul’s joy,’ Rasputin taught.” The Rasputin File Edvard Radzinsky, translated by Judson Rosengrant March 29, 2001 issue
Neither Salvation nor Sausage Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia (Russia in 1839) by the Marquis de Custine, foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin, introduction by George F. Kennan June 14, 1990 issue
