The Murder of Grigori Rasputin: The Man Who Wouldn’t Die

The Murder of Grigori Rasputin: The Man Who Wouldn’t Die

“This devil who was dying of poison, who had a bullet in his heart, must have been raised from the dead by the powers of evil. There was something appalling and monstrous in his diabolical refusal to die.”

It reportedly took several doses of cyanide, two fatal gunshot wounds, horrible mutilation, including even gouging out the right eye, and finally drowning him in the frozen Neva River to put down the Mad Monk, the spiritual guru to Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra of Russia.

Rasputin had become so powerful that he became the personal advisor to the Tsar in all matters, thus becoming a sworn enemy of the Russian aristocracy, who wanted to get rid of him at any cost. Even outside Russia, he had made powerful enemies.

The official explanation is that Prince Felix Yusupov and his four co-conspirators killed Rasputin. One cold December evening, Rasputin went to the Yusupov Palace in St Petersburg at the invitation of Prince Felix Yusupov. Rasputin's dead body was recovered from the frozen Neva River two days later. Nobody exactly knows what happened between the two days.

“This devil who was dying of poison, who had a bullet in his heart, must have been raised from the dead by the powers of evil,” Yusupov wrote. “There was something appalling and monstrous in his diabolical refusal to die.”

The death of Grigori Rasputin has inspired endless fascination for over a century. His final hours were as difficult as the times he lived through, much of which he had a direct hand in creating. It reportedly took several doses of cyanide and two fatal gunshot wounds to finally put down the Mad Monk of Russia. 

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It reportedly took several doses of cyanide, two fatal gunshot wounds, horrible mutilation, including even gouging out the right eye, and finally drowning him in the frozen Neva River to put down the Mad Monk, the spiritual guru to Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra of Russia.

Rasputin had become so powerful that he became the personal advisor to the Tsar in all matters, thus becoming a sworn enemy of the Russian aristocracy, who wanted to get rid of him at any cost. Even outside Russia, he had made powerful enemies.

The official explanation is that Prince Felix Yusupov and his four co-conspirators killed Rasputin. One cold December evening, Rasputin went to the Yusupov Palace in St Petersburg at the invitation of Prince Felix Yusupov. Rasputin's dead body was recovered from the frozen Neva River two days later. Nobody exactly knows what happened between the two days.

The only well-known account of the events comes from Prince Yusupov himself in his memoirs Lost Splendour, which is full of holes. In addition, Felix himself had changed the version of the events that night five times during the police questioning. Additionally, the original police forensic report did not survive.

Interestingly, Rasputin's prophetic words, "Without me, everything will collapse," came true—soon after his death, the communist revolutionaries murdered the royal family in 1918. The violence and chaos of the revolution and Bolshevik terror ensured that the gruesome murder of Rasputin remains a mystery even now, more than 100 years later.

The Attempted Murders of Grigori Rasputin

Rasputin grew up in a peasant family in Siberia. He was a devoted religious man who became famous across the country for his spiritual powers and soon acquired a sizable following.

When Tsarina Alexandra invited him to heal her son Aleksei, who was suffering from the incurable genetic disease hemophilia, he managed to cure him entirely and soon became the personal confidant of Tsar Nicolas, who started consulting him even in political matters. Rasputin became the most powerful man in Russia after the Tsar, which was not appreciated by the Russian aristocracy or even other countries. Soon there were plots to kill him.

Several assassinations were attempted, all of which failed. Finally, a group led by Felix Yusupov, one of Russia's wealthiest families, decided to get rid of him once and for all.

Yusupov planned to poison Rasputin. He invited him to his house on a December evening for a sumptuous meal of cakes and wine laced with cyanide by one of the co-conspirators, Dr. Stanislaus de Lazovert. Rasputin continued to gorge on the cakes and the wine with seemingly no effect. No amount of poison could harm him, as he continued asking for more and more cakes.

Frustrated and frightened, Yusupov pulled out his pistol and shot Rasputin in the chest. Rasputin collapsed onto his back and, within a minute, lay still. Dr. Stanislaus de Lazovert confirmed that he had died, as the bullet had entered the region close to his heart. The conspirators were happy, and they left the body below and went upstairs to celebrate.

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