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“[whisper] On a freezing night in December 1916, a group of powerful nobles gathered in a palace on the banks of the Neva River. They had one goal… to kill a man who would not die.” [angry] “They poisoned him. He lived.” [angry] “They shot him. He rose.” [angry] “They beat him, bound him, and thre…

“[whisper] On a freezing night in December 1916, a group of powerful nobles gathered in a palace on the banks of the Neva River. They had one goal… to kill a man who would not die.” [angry] “They poisoned him. He lived.” [angry] “They shot him. He rose.” [angry] “They beat him, bound him, and threw him into an icy river.” “His name was Grigori Rasputin — the peasant who infiltrated an empire, bewitched a royal family, [angry] and became the most feared man in Russia.”