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Rasputin was a womanizer, self-proclaimed healer and holy man, extreme hiker and a master manipulator. But that is not why he made this list. It’s really because of how he died, or rather how much effort it took to kill him.
Rasputin had gained a little too much influence over the Tsar’s family for some Russian aristocrats. In 1914, he was stabbed by a prostitute so badly that vital organs were hanging out. But he recovered.
The night of his murder he was invited to the Prince’s palace, where he was allegedly drugged with enough cyanide hidden in cakes and wine to kill several men instantly. The group was completely blown away when hours had passed by and nothing had happened… “We were seized with an insane dread that this man was inviolable, that he was superhuman, that he couldn’t be killed,” Yusupov wrote. They decided to shoot him in the back, and he slumped to the door.
The men left the palace, and a few minutes later one went back to get his coat. Rasputin leapt up and started to strangle him. He was shot three more times in the back, bound by feet and hands, rolled up in a carpet and tossed into a partially frozen river.
Autopsy revealed that Rasputin’s lungs were full of water, meaning the poison didn’t kill him, nor the gunshot wounds — he had actually drowned, and had still been breathing when he was thrown in the river.