Recently released documents from the archives of the British secret service indicate that the murder of Rasputin was almost certainly the work of Brit agents in St. Petersburg. Rasputin had an absolute hold on the Empress Alexandra, a first class dimwit, who was then ruling Russia while her equal dimwit husband, Nicholas, was “running” the war effort 500 miles away. The Brits were petrified that Rasputin would convince her, of German birth, to get Russia out of the war, freeing up 100 German divisions from the East to smash through the western front. Archives indicate that Rasputin was shot with bullets from guns that only the Brits in Russia possessed and that they had been on scene the night that the Mad Monk was finished off.
That’s pretty interesting.
But; there was a cabal or collection of some sort within the Russian monarchy who wanted Rasputin dead and gone due to his near-complete influence over Alexandra, no? And they were supposedly the ones who poisoned him. That was a completely separate assassination attempt as I understand it.
Not being entirely clear on the dates involved; didn’t Rasp recover from his poisoning and then, sometime later, perhaps months and years, he was shot as you say, and dumped into the River Nieve?
Well, the Bolsheviki did take Russia out of the war. With German help. Lenin laughed last.