1916 Murder of Grigory Rasputin

One hundred years ago, on December 30, 1916, Grigory Efimovich Rasputin (Novykh), a favorite of the royal family, was killed in St. Petersburg. The assassination was organized and carried out by Far-Right Duma deputy Vladimir Purishkevich, Prince Felix Yusupov, Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich, Yusupov's lover of the guard Lieutenant Sergei Sukhotin, and Purishkevich's medical train doctor Stanislav Lazovert. The killers hoped, by killing Rasputin, to stop the process of discrediting the monarchy in the eyes of the people.

Lazovert put potassium cyanide in the cakes with which they wanted to poison Rasputin, but the poison did not work. Then Yusupov, Purishkevich, Dmitry Pavlovich and, possibly, Sukhotin shot Rasputin. The murder took place in Yusupov's palace. The body of the "old man" was lowered under the ice into Malaya Nevka, where the police soon discovered it. Although before the February Revolution, the investigation established the participation in the murder of Yusupov, Purishkevich and Dmitry Pavlovich, they were not held accountable.