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Grigory Rasputin, the 'Mad Monk' who was hard to kill. Grigory Rasputin, whose life and times is to be the subject of a new Franco-Russian film, led a life less ordinary. Grigory Rasputin Photo: ALAMY.
Rasputin swallowed enough poison to kill four horses. He was shot several times, stabbed, strangled, assaulted, castrated, and he was drowned in the Neva river in St. Petersburg. Three days later Rasputin was dead. Rasputin's murder was a death sentence for Czar Nicholas II and his family.