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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 Fe...