The Night they murdered Rasputin
It is Halloween, and what could be more fitting than a video about the murder of Rasputin?
This bizarre story has it all: intrigue, sex, murder, and conspiracy.
The most bizarre was the tales of Rasputin's seemingly supernatural power during his final struggles.
He survived cyanide poisoning, multiple close-range gunshots, and severe beating before his demise.
We based his bizarre account of Rasputin's Murder on the memoir of one of his killers, Felix Yusupov.
This Halloween, get in the spooky spirit with a real-life murder history and let us present the strange tale of Rasputin's death.
Chapters:
00:00 Murdering Rasputin
00:47 Who was Rasputin
01:57 The Night of Rasputin’s Murder. 29 December 1916
03:23 What happened after Rasputin’s Murder
04:11 Outro
Who was Rasputin, and how did he rise to power
o Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who was born to a peasant family in Siberia
o Rasputin had a religious conversion experience after taking a pilgrimage to a monastery in 1897.
o By late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a healer for the imperial couple's only son Alexei, who had hemophilia.
o Rasputin won the favor of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra because he could stop their hemophiliac son's bleeding in 1908.
o The high point of Rasputin's power was in 1915 when Nicholas II left St. Petersburg to oversee Russian armies fighting World War I
o The Czar's direct participation in the war left Empress Alexandra, Queen Victoria's German granddaughter, in charge of Russia with Rasputin.
o Essentially, a German-born Empress, the cousin of the Kaiser, was in charge of Russia while Russia was fighting a losing war with Germany.
o After the Russian defeats mounted during the war, Rasputin and Alexandra became increasingly unpopular.
o The Russian Monk Illiador (Sergei Trufanov), a friend of Lenin, started spreading stories and rumors about a love relationship between Rasputin and the Empress.
o People were calling openly for the removal of Rasputin, and the conditions set the stage for the conspirators to carry out the murder
What happened on December 29, 1916
o The detailed events of Rasputin's murder were according to the memoir of the mastermind, Felix Yussupov, published in 1928.
o On December 29, 1916, Prince Felix Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich lured Rasputin to Moika Palace in St. Petersburg to kill him.
o Some believed that Yusupov had used his beautiful 21 years old wife and Czar's only niece, Irina, as bait.
o When Rasputin arrived at the Palace, the conspirators first fed him food and wine laced with cyanide.
o When Rasputin failed to respond to the cyanide, they shot him at close range.
o The story turned much more bizarre when Rasputin, after the cyanide poisoning and multiple gunshot wounds, got up to escape into the Palace ground.
o The conspirators chased him and shot him a few more times.
o When they found him still alive after this, they beat him until he no longer moved.
o Finding him still alive at this point, they tied him up and threw his still-living body into the frozen Neva River.
o His body was found several days later with water in his lungs, indicating that he finally died only by drowning.
The Aftermath of the Murder
o Yussupov and his co-conspirators hoped that removing Rasputin would make Nicholas II more open to the advice of nobility and Duma;
o However, the Czar exiled the two main conspirators, Felix Yusupov and Dmitri Pavlovich, for murdering Rasputin.
o The murder and their exile did not lead to any radical changes, eventually leading to the Bolshevik Revolution in March 1917.
o Coincidently, the Bolshevik revolution overthrew the Russian Imperial Family, and the Bolsheviks murdered the imperial family shortly after Rasputin's death.
o Tragically, the Bolsheviks murdered Czar Nicholas II and every member of his family (whom we will cover in more detail in other videos) on July 17, 1918.
o The Conspirators were fortunate to have been exiled, as they both escaped to Western Europe during the Bolshevik Revolution and survived.
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