The murder of Rasputin

1916 (Old Style) Grigori Rasputin (b. 1869), mystic and favourite of the wife of Russia's last tsar (Nicholas II), was murdered by a group of conservatives who wished to rid the Russian court of his malignant influence.

He was served poisoned wine and cakes of which he partook, beaten, castrated, had his genitals flung across the room, and was subsequently shot several times and thrown into a frozen river before he expired ...

The rumours about Rasputin's mega-penis

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