Click2History - Death of a Tsar - Chapter 7

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>DEATH OF A TSAR</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 7 - RASPUTIN'S MURDER</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Since the Empress had become so dependent on Rasputin, <a href="http://worldroots.clicktron.com/brigitte/gifs/romanov67.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Prince Felix Yussupov</b></a> and other members of the family believed murder was the only way to get rid of the monk. </p> <p>On December 16, 1916 Yussupov invited Rasputin to his <a href="http://cityvision2000.com/sightseeing/museums/yusupov.htm" target="_blank"><b>home in St. Petersburg</b></a>. Feeding him cyanide-laced wine and cakes, Yussopov thought killing Rasputin would be easy. He was wrong. Rasputin did not eat sweets. Rasputin collapsed from the poison, but did not die.</p> <p>Later, the alleged details of the murder came out. Yussopov shot Rasputin in the chest, but still he did not die. One of the conspirators shot him twice as Rasputin tried to flee. The shots disabled the monk, but <a href="http://www.online.ru/sp/fresh/museums/rasputin.jpg" target="_blank"><b>legend</b></a> has it, he was still alive as the men threw his body into the Neva River. His body was found one week later. Recent <a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0385489099.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" target="_blank"><b>revelations</b></a> from Russian Archives, however, paint a different picture of Rasputin's death. Turns out he wasn't as hard to kill as the story his murderers told at the time of his death. </p> <p>Rasputin had made an eerie prediction before he died.</p> <blockquote><font face="times new roman" size=3 color=000000><b><i><p>If I am killed by common assassins and especially by my brothers the Russian peasants, you, Tsar of Russia, have nothing to fear for your children, they will reign for hundreds of years in Russia.</p> <p>...if it was your relations who have wrought my death, then no one in your family, that is to say, none of your children or relations will remain alive for two years. They will be killed by the Russian people...</p> <p>I shall be killed. I am no longer among the living. Pray, pray, be strong, think of your blessed family.</p> <p align=center>Grigory</p></blockquote></font></i></b> <p>Three months after Rasputin's death by the hand of Romanov "relations," Nicholas was deposed as Tsar (March, 1917). Less than two years later, the rest of the "mad monk's" <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lostsecrets.com/education/page10b.html"><b>prediction</b></a> came true as well.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="death_tsar_ch6.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="death_tsar_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER  </a>   <a href="death_tsar_ch8.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>