I remember reading an criminal anthropologists report on the skeleton of Rasputin, who investigated his remains to compare to those of modern day murder victims, and the injuries Rasputin suffered in the fatal attack on hime were incredible. He died hard, and brutally, and it took so many strikes with swords to kill him, you'd think the man was super-human, to take so much punishment before expiring. I read about this man's life in many books, and he truly was a man to be reckoned with in many ways. His hold over the Russian Royal Family was incredible, and his influence spread so much farther than most people would expect. He was pretty much the Russian equivalent of someone like Charles Manson or Jim Jones, being utterly mesmerising and charismatic, but with a darkness inside him that drove his passions and finally brought about his downfall.
I remember reading an criminal anthropologists report on the skeleton of Rasputin, who investigated his remains to compare to those of modern day murder victims, and the injuries Rasputin suffered in the fatal attack on hime were incredible. He died hard, and brutally, and it took so many strikes with swords to kill him, you'd think the man was super-human, to take so much punishment before expiring. I read about this man's life in many books, and he truly was a man to be reckoned with in many ways. His hold over the Russian Royal Family was incredible, and his influence spread so much farther than most people would expect. He was pretty much the Russian equivalent of someone like Charles Manson or Jim Jones, being utterly mesmerising and charismatic, but with a darkness inside him that drove his passions and finally brought about his downfall.