The Assassination of Russia’s “Mad Monk”
History Daily30 Dec 2025

The Assassination of Russia’s “Mad Monk”

December 30, 1916. Grigori Rasputin, the mystic confidant of the Russian royals, is assassinated in St. Petersburg, accelerating the fall of the Romanov dynasty.

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