Without a flicker of emotion, Russian aristocrat, Prince Felix Yussupov, declared on the witness stand that he killed Russia’s “Mad Monk,” Rasputin. Yussupov described in detail how he helped poison, shoot, beat, and drown him, as part of a larger conspiracy to murder the mystical “holy man,” who had gained powerful influence over the Imperial family.
Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916) was a Siberian-born peasant who underwent a religious conversion as a teenager and later became a wandering holy man and a self-proclaimed mystic and healer. His religious fervor combined with his personal charisma brought him to the attention