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Sanctity and Sex: Rasputin

The peasant with hypnotic eyes, superhuman strength, and irresistible power over women was neither man nor monster: he was almost the Devil himself

October 1 1950 RICHARD HIRSCH
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Sanctity and Sex: Rasputin

The peasant with hypnotic eyes, superhuman strength, and irresistible power over women was neither man nor monster: he was almost the Devil himself

October 1 1950 RICHARD HIRSCH

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