Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Supposedly shot, drowned, suffocated, locked up, and still survived and escaped until the ultimate end.
and poisoned.
i heard one account that he has shackled, shot, then thrown off the bridge. his body was found miles downstream and he was out of his shackles. however, the GSW to the forehead does put a bit of a hole (pun intended) in that story
from wiki:
Assassination attempt
On 12 July [
O.S. 29 June] 1914 a 33-year-old peasant woman named
Chionya Guseva attempted to assassinate Rasputin by stabbing him in the stomach outside his home in Pokrovskoye.
[60] Rasputin was seriously wounded, and for a time it was not clear if he would survive.
[61] After surgery
[62] and some time in a hospital in
Tyumen,
[63] he recovered.
Guseva was a follower of
Iliodor, a former priest who had supported Rasputin before denouncing his sexual escapades and self-aggrandizement in December 1911.
[64][65] A radical conservative and anti-semite, Iliodor had been part of a group of establishment figures who had attempted to drive a wedge between the royal family and Rasputin in 1911. When this effort failed, Iliodor was banished from Saint Petersburg and was ultimately
defrocked.
[64][66] Guseva claimed to have acted alone, having read about Rasputin in the newspapers and believing him to be a "false prophet and even an
Antichrist".
[67] Both the police and Rasputin, however, believed that Iliodor had instigated the attempt on Rasputin's life.
[64] Iliodor fled the country before he could be questioned, and Guseva was found to be not responsible for her actions by reason of insanity.
[64]
Death
Felix Yusupov, husband of
Princess Irina Aleksandrovna Romanova, the Tsar's niece, 1914
A group of nobles led by Prince
Felix Yusupov, Grand Duke
Dmitri Pavlovich, and right-wing politician
Vladimir Purishkevich decided that Rasputin's influence over the tsarina threatened the empire, and they concocted a plan in December 1916 to kill him, apparently by luring him to the Yusupovs'
Moika Palace.
[68][69]
Basement of the Yusupov Palace on the Moika in St. Petersburg where Rasputin was murdered
The wooden
Bolshoy Petrovsky Bridge from which Rasputin's body was thrown into the
Malaya Nevka River
Rasputin was murdered during the early morning on 30 December [
O.S. 17 December] 1916 at the home of Felix Yusupov. He died of three gunshot wounds, one of which was a close-range shot to his forehead. Little is certain about his death beyond this, and the circumstances of his death have been the subject of considerable speculation. According to historian Douglas Smith, "what really happened at the Yusupov home on 17 December will never be known".
[70] The story that Yusupov recounted in his memoirs, however, has become the most frequently told version of events.
[71]
Rasputin's body with a bullet wound in forehead
Yusupov said he invited Rasputin to his home shortly after midnight and ushered him into the basement. Yusupov offered Rasputin tea and cakes which had been laced with cyanide. Rasputin initially refused the cakes but then began to eat them and, to Yusupov's surprise, appeared unaffected by the poison.
[72] Rasputin then asked for some
Madeira wine (which had also been poisoned) and drank three glasses, but still showed no sign of distress. At around 2:30 am, Yusupov excused himself to go upstairs, where his fellow conspirators were waiting. He took a revolver from Dmitry Pavlovich, then returned to the basement and told Rasputin that he'd "better look at the crucifix and say a prayer", referring to a crucifix in the room, then shot him once in the chest. The conspirators then drove to Rasputin's apartment, with Sukhotin wearing Rasputin's coat and hat in an attempt to make it look as though Rasputin had returned home that night.
[73] Upon returning to the Moika Palace, Yusupov went back to the basement to ensure that Rasputin was dead.
[74] Suddenly, Rasputin leaped up and attacked Yusupov, who freed himself with some effort and fled upstairs. Rasputin followed Yusupov into the palace's courtyard, where he was shot by Purishkevich. He collapsed into a snowbank. The conspirators then wrapped his body in cloth, drove it to the
Petrovsky Bridge, and dropped it into the
Malaya Nevka River.
[75]
