me thinks Rasputin.punkest death of all times,bad mothef*ka!
edit i feel like posting the entire story:
The legends recounting the death of Rasputin are perhaps even more bizarre than his strange life.
According to Greg King's
1996 book
The Man Who Killed Rasputin, a previous attempt on Rasputin's life had been made and failed. Rasputin was visiting his wife and children in his hometown,
Pokrovskoye, along the
Tura River, in
Siberia. On
June 29,
1914, he had either just received a telegram, or was just exiting church, when he was attacked by
Khionia Guseva. A former
prostitute, she had become a
disciple of the monk
Iliodor — once a friend of Rasputin's, who had become disgusted with his behavior and his disrespectful talk about the Royal Family. Iliodor appealed to women who had been harmed by Rasputin and formed a survivors' support group, with the intention of discrediting or killing him. Guseva thrust a knife into Rasputin's abdomen. His
entrails hung out of what seemed like a mortal wound. After the attack, Guseva supposedly screamed, "I have killed the
antichrist!" After intensive surgery Rasputin recovered. It was said about his survival: "the soul of this cursed
muzhik was sewn on his body." His daughter Maria points out in her memoirs that he was never the same after that; he seemed to tire more easily, and frequently took
opium for pain.
The murder of Rasputin has become legend, some of it invented by the very men who killed him, so that it becomes difficult to discern exactly what happened. However, it is generally agreed that on
December 16,
1916, having decided that Rasputin's influence over the Tsarina made him too dangerous to the Empire, a group of nobles led by Prince
Felix Yusupov, and the Grand Duke,
Dmitri Pavlovich (one of the few Romanov family members to escape the annihilation of the family) apparently lured Rasputin to the Yusupovs' Moika Palace, where they served him cakes and red wine laced with a large amount of
cyanide. According to the legend, Rasputin was not affected, although there was enough poison to kill ten men. Maria Rasputin's account says that if her father ate poison, it was not in the cakes or wine, because after the attack by Guseva, he had
hyperacidity, and avoided anything with sugar. She expressed doubt that he was poisoned at all.
Determined to finish the job, Yusupov worried that Rasputin would live until morning, so that the conspirators wouldn't have time to conceal his body. He ran upstairs to consult with the others, then came back down and shot Rasputin through the back with a revolver. Rasputin fell. When Prince went to check on the body, Rasputin opened his eyes, grabbed Felix by the throat and while strangling him said in an ominous whisper "You bad, bad boy", and then threw him across the room and took off. As he made his bid for freedom, the rest of the conspirators arrived and fired at him. After being hit three times in the back, he fell. As they neared his body, they found he was trying to get up so they clubbed him into submission. Then after wrapping his body in a sheet, threw him into the icy Neva River.
Three days later the body of Rasputin — poisoned, shot three times, and badly beaten — was recovered from the river and autopsied. The cause of death was drowning. His arms were apparently found in an upright position, as if he had tried to claw his way out from under the ice. In the autopsy, it was found that he was poisoned, and that that alone should have killed him.
Subsequently, the
Empress Alexandra buried Rasputin's body in the grounds of
Tsarskoe Selo. After the
February Revolution, Rasputin's body was uncovered by a group of workers from
Petrograd and carried into a nearby wood and burned.
from wikipedia
