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[demon5magic]

Specifically, they tried to poison him with cakes laced with cyanide. That didn't work as its probable that the cyanide vaporized during the baking process. The conspirators, a group of boyars (Russian nobles) and a British SIS agent led by Prince Yusupov and Duke Pavlovich, got nervous when he didn't drop dead from what they thought was enough cyanide to kill 5 men,

so they shot him.

shot Rasputin three more times. He lived through that too

they proceeded to beat the living hell out of him. That didn't kill him either

the bastard had obviously made a hell of an effort to claw his way out.

he survived being almost eviscerated by a prostitute in public in 1914. She stabbed him in the gut after being paid to kill him

WOW.......this guy was badass......

 

[Randomwrath]

Damnit, I kicked myself after reading a couple of those. I was right about Rasputin though. That guy really didn't want to die.

What nobody realized at the time is that he was just hyping up a classic ball under the arm pulse stop...

 

[Randy]

This goes down in history as one of the most insanely creepy things ever.

You say creepy, I say pretty awesome. Tho most mystics usually have a few ways of avoiding death. Hell I seem to recall stories of people being buried alive in their coffin. and later people saying the persons finger nails were pretty much wrecked from trying to claw their ways out of the coffins.

Now yes, The Mythbusters DID prove that now days you wouldn't be able to escape from being buried alive. But back in ye olde days they supposedly didn't bury people as deep as they do now. (unless I am wrong.)

 

[visualartist]

You say creepy, I say pretty awesome. Tho most mystics usually have a few ways of avoiding death. Hell I seem to recall stories of people being buried alive in their coffin. and later people saying the persons finger nails were pretty much wrecked from trying to claw their ways out of the coffins.

Now yes, The Mythbusters DID prove that now days you wouldn't be able to escape from being buried alive. But back in ye olde days they supposedly didn't bury people as deep as they do now. (unless I am wrong.)

Rasputin was way more intense than what the indian fakirs did.
He went way past creepy into the phenomenal.

 

[Randy]

He's got nothing on Vigo the Carpathian.

 

[Steerpike]

Now yes, The Mythbusters DID prove that now days you wouldn't be able to escape from being buried alive. But back in ye olde days they supposedly didn't bury people as deep as they do now. (unless I am wrong.)

There's not a lot of hard data to corroborate those stories, so most of them remain unconfirmed.

As the for the depth of the burials, that has a grain of truth to it. In the Carpathian Mountains, burials were hard to do in the winter because of the frozen ground, so graves tended to be relatively shallow. Do keep in mind that the Carpathians are considered the birthplace of many Western superstitions.