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On December 20, 1916, Russia's "Mad Monk" Grigori Rasputin was brutally murdered by Prince Feliks Yusupov and his co-conspirators.Prince Feliks' account of the events has been subject to scrutiny and debate ever since, but since Rasputin's life was so strange and mysterious, his death has been the source of a fantastic tale that the Mad Monk Rasputin could not die. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information Sources: Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Grigory-Yefimovich-Rasputin Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-really-happened-during-murder-rasputin-russia-mad-monk-180961572/ How Stuff Works https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/rasputin.htm History Today https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/murder-grigori-rasputin Mental Floss https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/90379/murder-rasputin-100th-anniversary-mystery-wont-die Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin#CITEREFRadzinsky2010 Reddit Thread: TIL after Rasputin was murdered, a group of people dug up his remains & burned them. As the body was being burned, Rasputin appeared to sit up in the flames, terrifying onlookers. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/187svu/til_after_rasputin_was_murdered_a_group_of_people/ Reddit Thread: TIL that as Rasputin's body was being burned, he appeared to sit up in the fire, a morbid post-mortem reaction that terrified observers interpreted as an escape attempt https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1lm7e7/til_that_as_rasputins_body_was_being_burned_he/ Reddit Thread: Why was Rasputin so difficult to kill? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/yyual5/why_was_rasputin_so_difficult_to_kill/ Quora: Why was the death scene for Rasputin so dramatic? https://www.quora.com/Why-was-the-death-scene-for-Rasputin-so-dramatic --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Videos Sources from 'Creative Commons' and Clipchamp --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #unsolvedmysteries #rasputin #strangedeaths