Question by : what was unusual about Grigori Rasputin’s death?
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Answer by Bateman
Well he was poisoned, garrotted, stabbed and drowned before they could kill him.
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ammianus says
He turned out to be exceptionally hard to kill.
His body was recovered from the river Neva, and it was found that he had been shot 4 times,poisoned, stabbed, and badly beaten before being thrown in the river, and the final cause of death was drowning,suggesting he was still alive when his body was dumped in the river.
flylikeicarus says
His murderers found it eerily difficult to kill him. One night in December 1916, Rasputin was invited by Prince Felix Felixovich Yussupov to visit his palace on the Moika Canal. The pretext was the opportunity for Rasputin to meet Felix's wife, Irina, who was a great beauty and niece of the Tsar. Rasputin wanted to meet Irina and was flattered by Felix's attention. It was said that Rasputin was fed a number of poisoned foods during his visit, yet the poison did not affect him. If I remember correctly, he was then stabbed (or shot…) a few times by his frustrated killers. When they took his pulse, they found that he was still alive. At this point, I think they dragged him outside to drown. So basically, his death was unusual simply because he was so difficult to kill.