About the Author

Edvard Radzinsky is the author of The Last Tsar and Stalin. A celebrated playwright and television personality, he lives in Russia.

Reviews

"[G]ripping...a story almost Tolstoyan in its complexities and ironies."-The New York Times Book Review "[N]o reader can come away from [this] biography without a powerful impression of the charm and charisma of the semi-literate bearded peasant from Siberia."-The Economist