Category: Occult Figures

• The Rasputin "Immortal"

  This theory claimed that Grigori Rasputin did not truly die in the December 1916 murder attempt at Petrograd, but survived poison, gunfire, and disposal of the body and later vanished back into Siberia. It developed from the extraordinary and often contradictory stories told by the conspirators who killed him, especially Felix Yusupov’s dramatic memoir account. Because those narratives emphasized Rasputin’s resistance to cyanide and bullets, they created a public image of supernatural durability. Later forensic reassessments of the evidence have shown that several elements of the popular death story are doubtful or exaggerated, which helped the survival legend persist.