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Rasputin: The drunk Russian monk who refused to die | ASSASSINS

It’s said that Rasputin, the so-called ‘mad monk’, had supernatural abilities, could hypnotise people, and was quite a philanderer...
It’s also said that he was incredibly tricky to assassinate…
But how much of that is true?
And what’s with people claiming to have preserved his severed penis in a jar?
00:00 A phallus in a jar?
00:40 Yusupov’s party/trap
05:32 Hello my friend!
06:26 Rasputin’s early years
07:32 Rasputin makes inroads with the Russian elite
09:59 The Romanovs
12:27 The Influence of Rasputin
14:56 What happened to Rasputin?
17:33 The fallout
18:20 Revolution in Russia
19:22 And what about the phallus in the jar?
Host: Aslan Pahari
Producer: Hannah Jose
Audio Engineer: John Jacobs
Video Producer: Tejas Bhat
Special thanks: Michael Osmond for archives research
Supervising Producer: Kyla Slaven
Executive Producers: Joel Werner, Eric George, Jessica Radburn
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