here’s a quick retelling of his life and death. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Grigori Rasputin was a self-proclaimed holy man who was thought to ...

Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic, survived multiple assassination attempts on the same night. He was poisoned, he was shot, he was drowned in a freezing St Petersburg river. His corpse was ...