rasputin, grigori efimovich

A biography of Grigory Rasputin, a poor peasant from Siberia who charmed his way into the court of Czar Nicholas and his wife Alexandra of Russia.

After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and Alexis, orphaned in the Russian Revolution, to Heaven.

Recounts the life of Rasputin from his his Siberian origins to his position at the right hand of Nicholas and Alexandra and ending with his murder.