Poisoned, shot and beaten: why cyanide alone may have failed to kill Rasputin

The Guardian ^ | 01/13/2017

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Yusupov and his accomplices had planned things carefully. The cakes offered to Rasputin had been laced with enough potassium cyanide to slay a monastery full of monks. But Rasputin just kept eating them. Incredulous at the monk’s survival, Prince Yusupov poured madeira into a cyanide-laced wine glass and handed it to Rasputin. Instead of collapsing into unconsciousness within seconds, as would be expected from a massive dose of cyanide, Rasputin continued to sip the wine like a connoisseur.

A second lethal glass disappeared into the monk’s mouth with little apparent effect other than some difficulty swallowing. Asked if he was feeling unwell he replied “Yes, my head is heavy and I’ve a burning sensation in my stomach.” A third glass of tainted wine only seemed to revive him. Having ingested their whole stock of cyanide, the group of assassins were somewhat at a loss as to what to do next.

So they shot him.

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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, a mystic and spiritual healer born in Pokrovskoe in Siberia, wielded huge influence over the Russian royal family, particularly Alexandra, the Tsarina.

[elcid1970]

Rasputin’s name contains the syllables “putin”.

Makes you go hmmm.....

[Jmouse007]

It is hard to “put down” such an evil, demon possessed servant of Satan, the “god of this world”.

[humblegunner]

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No.

Rasputin was behind the hacking of the election, I hope he keeps it up.

Hack more, Rasputin. Hack like you don't even care.

Hack on, hacker.

[NonValueAdded]

They should have used iocaine powder.

Love, Dread Pirate Roberts

[Red Badger]

Upstairs, a gramophone played Yankee Doodle Dandy to fool the monk in to believing there was a party in full swing.

Must have been a Republican Party..................

[Cboldt]

CNN August 19, 2016

DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST ... [Donald Trump is] like the Rasputin of American politics. He never gets killed.

[BuffaloJack]

Just a theory on why the cyanide had no effect.
He may have suspected some attempt on his life and as a precaution he could have eaten a couple daffodil bulbs.
Daffodil bulbs contain atropine, the antidote for cyanide and many nerve agents. Atropine via daffodil bulbs will give you an upset stomach but won’t kill you.

[donozark]

Rasputin was double-tough. Hate to meet him in the woods during deer season!

[Yaelle]

Is Putin a version of Rasputin?

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RE: Is Putin a version of Rasputin?

The only way to find out is to do what they did to the mad monk himself .....

[colorado tanker]

I have never believed he was he Tsarina’s lover. Look at that face.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I wonder how he eats pu$$y.

[ytrebil]

I wonder how he eats pu$$y.

You do realize that he's been dead for over 100 years?

[Leaning Right]

> Rasputin’s name contains the syllables “putin”. Makes you go hmmm..... <

Here’s another one for you. There’s a very old Russian folk saying that goes like this: The Russian Empire will begin with a Mikhail, and end with a Mikhail.

Well, the first czar was Mikhail of Tver. And the leader of the Soviet Union when it collapsed was....Mikhail Gorbachev.

[I-ambush]

Cyanid is not a neurotoxin, and atropine would not be an antidote. It prevents aerobic metabolism, killing through hypoxia.

[freedomlover]

I think I read that his body was exhumed a year(?) or so after death and then burned, during which he appeared to sit up.

[freedomlover]

Yes that would make it pretty difficult lol

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Or it could have been that he was working for the other side.

They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Mark 16:18

Sounds like he did two out of three.