DEFENDS HER FATHER.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20329, 12 June 1934, Page 1

DEFENDS HER FATHER.

Rasputin’s Daughter Writes

Book,

LONDON, June 3.

Marie Rasputin, the sole survivor of the notorious Russian monk’s children, who is now a wild animal tamer, makes a spirited defence of her father in her book, which has been published by Cassell.

She says th-.t Rasputin’s children, on the night that Rasputin was murdered, hid his boots in an effort to prevent his visiting Prince Youssoupoff’s palace, where he met his end. He went out at night in order to evade the police who were charged with the duty of guarding him. He insisted that a maid-servant should find his boots.

Rasputin wrote to the Czar on the eve of the outbreak of war warning him not to allow fools to triumph and plunge Russia into the abyss.” lie added: “Perhaps we will conquer Germany, but what will become of Russia ? ”

Marie refers to her father’s addiction to drink in the latter years of his life. She says that it was wonderful that a simple peasant should for so long have resisted the intemperate generosity of St Peterburg’s aristocrats, wno 'surrounded him with elegant, seductive women,

Lie, possibly, also yielded to amatory temptations, especially when the women were specifically instructed to seduce him. evertneless, he was a good husband and father