The study of the life and death of the Siberian «experienced pilgrim» G. E. Rasputin-Novykh

The article analyses the book by A.P. and D.A. Kotsyubinsky «Grigoriy Rasputin: secret and visible» (St. Petersburg, 2003), dedicated to the life and death of Grigoriy E. Rasputin. The methodology of the research was formulated by the authors as.combined historicalpsychological analysis.. The authors designed a serious methodological perspective of the scientific research on Rasputin from a position of personality discourse, irrespective of.fact. biography of the.monk.. The article concludes that the authors couldn.t deviate from the.space of the special effects., that has historically formed in the context of the.Rasputin. historiography. Confidence in the groundless.hypotheses. and inattentive respect towards the historical sours are the principal shortcomings of the book.