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Rasputin's Murder: The Night the Romanovs Lost Their Healer
In the early hours of December 30, 1916, a group of Russian nobles lured Grigori Rasputin to the Moika Palace in Petrograd with promises of wine and a beautiful woman. What followed was one of the most bizarre and brutal assassination attempts in history—poisoned cakes, bullets, a sword, and finally a drowning in the icy Neva River. This episode reconstructs that night step by step, drawing on the memoirs of Prince Felix Yusupov and the testimony of other conspirators. We explore why Rasputin had become so indispensable to Tsarina Alexandra, who believed he could cure her hemophiliac son…
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