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However, a subsequent autopsy largely refuted this account of events; Rasputin apparently was shot to death. The murder merely strengthened Alexandra’s resolve to uphold the principle of autocracy, but a few weeks later the whole imperial regime was swept away by revolution.
- Boris Godunov
Boris Godunov (born c. 1551—died April 13 [April 23, New...
- Alexandra
Alexandra, consort of the Russian emperor Nicholas II. A...
- Grigory Rasputin Summary
Grigori Rasputin, orig. Grigory (Yefimovich) Novykh, (born...
- Boris Godunov
Day 14 of 14: Rasputin episode The bridge that Rasputin's body was thrown into the Nevka River from after he was killed. Here's a link to the current…
On 23 May Apis and eight of his associates were sentenced to death; two others were sentenced to 15 years in prison. One defendant died during the trial and the charges against him were dropped. The Serbian High Court reduced the number of death sentences to seven.
Rasputin was killed by a group of Russian nobles, including Prince Felix Youssupov (Czar Nicholas’ niece’s husband) and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich (Nicholas’ cousin) in December 1916.
Anger at Nicholas's failure to act and the extreme damage that Rasputin's influence was doing to Russia's war effort and to the monarchy led to Rasputin's eventual murder by a group of nobles, led by Prince Felix Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, a cousin of the tsar, in the early morning of Saturday 17 December 1916 / 30 ...
In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right testicle seemed to be growing bigger. It turned out that he had testicular cancer and one month later he was lying in hospital waiting to have his murderous ball removed. Would he survive? (No spoilers!).
