WEBVTT - SYSK Selects: What's the deal with Rasputin's death? 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:04.440 Hey, everybody, it's me Josh and this week for s 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:09.440 Y s K Selects, I've selected our episode on rest Mutant, 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:12.880 the Mad Monk, and I remember it was recorded during 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.240 a weird time at House Stuff Works. For some reason. 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:18.440 We were recording in an old corner office and there 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.960 were weird blackout drapes on the windows. It was very odd, 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.960 but it lent itself perfectly to this episode. And a 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:30.520 heads up, I should say, Uh, this one has a 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.400 lot of talk about Genitalia, so if you're a parent, 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.559 you may just want to be aware of that. Are 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:41.839 we talking about rest mutin You're darn Tuton. Welcome to 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:51.400 Stuff you should know from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.360 and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, This Charles W. 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.880 Choke Bryant, and this is stuff you should know the podcast. 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.959 That's right. Are we doing rest ut Yeah, we're doing rescuting. 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.000 No disputing, resputing, that's right. Actually there's a lot of disputing, 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.120 but there's tons of it. The man's whole life is 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:17.840 in dispute. Mystic, hypnotist, possible healer, porn star, Yeah pretty much, 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.080 not a porn star. He was into some freaky stuff. 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.560 He could have been. He's a big dude, six foot four. Yeah, 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.960 I saw that written down, And like, you know, there's 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:28.600 pictures of him, which is great because this is the 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.679 time in our world history where we had photographs of 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:36.560 these folks, right. But even even even that said, like 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.000 the fact that there are surviving photographs of him when 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:43.360 he was just some peasant Russia really speaks to the 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.880 impact that he had on the people around him totally. 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:50.320 There are very few Russian peasantry portraits, you know, or 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.600 studies of a specific person from like you know, eighteen 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.680 eighty eighteen ninety even that's a good point, um, But 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.520 there's pictures of Rescputing before he became famous in those 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.160 creepy eyes. Yeah, it depends on the photo. I think. 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.720 I think some of them they make a little more creepy. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.560 Some of them look photoshop, yeah, like the glowing ones 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.960 and stuff. Plus also and he's like I think he 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:18.440 turns it on sometimes to like freak. Yeah, so yeah, 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.440 we're talking about recipe. I think everybody kind of has 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.600 a certain idea. He's also known as the Mad Monk, 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:32.200 and he was a prolific lover. Yeah, he's a kinky man, yeah. Um, 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:36.079 And he had the ear of the tsar and the Tsarina. 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:40.000 The last ones is our Nicholas the second and his 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.760 wife of the Romanoff. Yeah, the romanof It's another way 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:48.000 to put it. So Alexander, Alexandra and Nicholas the Second 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.639 um invited respute into their court, which we'll get into. 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:56.440 Let's just start chronologically here though. Like birth, Yeah, well 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:01.200 he was born Gregory if m a bitch resputing in 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:05.000 eighteen sixty nine Siberia. Imagine being born in Siberian eighteen 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.960 sixty nine is just a big ball of laughs, you know, 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:15.280 or in two thousand thirteen. Um, and he supposedly, although 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.400 this was disputed by his daughter, I believe. Yeah, I 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.119 want to say, for me, this is so much dispect 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:25.520 of the podcast. Resputant had children. Yeah, like, he had 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.040 a family. He was married from age twenty one and 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:32.520 they still exist apparently in in France. One of them 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.240 lives in Los Angeles. I believe porn Star. I don't 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.200 think so, but I mean think about it, Resputin and 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.680 to spare that in mind, he was married and had 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.480 a family. Yeah, this whole time, from from age twenty on. Yeah, 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.560 that's a little weird actually, so his daughter, I believe, 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.720 disputed this, but apparently early on his religious activity was 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.040 um and he was involved with a group called the 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:01.600 Clists with a K in an age why and then 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:06.080 everything else normal and then um they were into some serious, 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:10.920 like you know, sexual activity like self flagellation that that 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:15.200 erupted into orgies, self flagellation in front of a group, 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.920 and then people would be like, Okay, it's humpy time. Yeah, 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.040 with the idea that in order to cleanse yourself of sins, 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:23.800 you just had to do a lot of that sin. 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.320 Is that right, Yeah? And the reason that they would 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:30.600 have orgies was because it was part of their religious 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.320 belief was that if somebody was having trouble with sin, 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.560 you had to help them work it out get rid 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.320 of the sin by doing the sin right. And apparently 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:39.760 it was a sin to have an orgy, and so 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.400 they did it a lot. Interesting and they were hated 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:47.599 among the Russians. Basically, they were mistrusted. They were just 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:52.320 viewed on upon as weird, and they were actually fairly subversive, 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.280 and they knew that they were viewed like this. So 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.320 one of the tenants of being a Clist was that 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.880 you went to the church the Russian Orthodox and you 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:05.320 were fervent and outspoken and super into the Russian Orthodox 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:09.560 Church by all outward appearances. That was what you did 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.240 if you were a clist. And then and then in 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.320 your dirty secret was you would whip yourself and have 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.880 sex with like twenty people at the same time. Exactly nice. Well, 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.160 like I said, His daughter disputed that he was involved, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.800 although historians say that he was. So who knows. I 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.920 read that she said that he was rejected by the Clifts. Yeah, 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.720 well he might have. Well, never mind, we'll get to that. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.279 He may have been too much for them. Um. So 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.200 he built his reputation traveling on Russia as a as 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.640 a healer, um, as a as a mystic and a preacher, 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.760 and eventually landed in St. Petersburg in nineteen o five 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:51.200 somehow got introduced to the aforementioned zar and Zarina. Yeah, 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.200 but before that he had become he had undergone a 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.680 religious conversion. Apparently from about the age of twelve he 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.560 was like doing it with anything he could get his 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:04.480 hands on. Um. And I don't know what age, but 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:09.120 I would say before between twelve and twenty, some monk 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.719 came through town, came through the village and said, you 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.200 know what, I think you should come with me the monastery. 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.840 I think you're kind of special. You've got some talent exactly, 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.960 young man. So he took him to the monastery and 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.680 and that's where Resputing underwent this religious conversion there and 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.880 came out like for like really fervently religious, like the 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.840 real deal. Um, he actually walked from Russia to Palestine 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:34.240 and back walked. That's not a short trip. Is there 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.640 disputing that or is that not that I understand? Okay, 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.880 I haven't seen that disputed, but I think I think 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.159 that's a that's a good point to bring up. Anything 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:47.520 that sounds even remotely a stretch that's attached to Resputing 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.200 you should probably take with a grain of salt. Yeah, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.080 Because I mean, because he was such an odd, unique 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.000 individual in art in the world history, there's been like 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.880 countless stories and I'm sure at the time they were 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.360 just like rampant story about who this guy was. Yeah, 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.720 and not only that, most of them were written and 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.919 spread by his enemies. He's a very hated person contemporarily, 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.280 so the original accounts are of people who are trying 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.280 to make him look bad. And then people started basing 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.800 biographies on those original accounts, And that's why he's got 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.880 such a bad reputation. There's so much lower and legend 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.960 and comfabulation surrounding him. That's so you you don't really 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.760 know much about him. Well he was for him, he 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.320 was just like, I'm just just a giant Siberian monk 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.440 looking for a good time. Everyone out to get me. 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.680 Why everybody got so many hang ups? The haters. So yeah, 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.520 he makes it. He's already kind of known as a 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:47.760 star a start it, uh, star it starts, a religious advisor. 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.920 By the time he gets to St. Petersburg and he's 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.520 hanging out there, he's like, we're gonna make it in 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.400 the big city. This is where the Romanovs live. This 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.880 is a good place for me to be. And apparently he, 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.600 like you said, impressed somebody in enough that he was 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.240 taken to the Roman Austin introduced to them at court. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.880 This is might as well be boogie nights. Yeah it is, 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:10.120 you know. Yeah, he's Eddie from the Valley Um. Alright, 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.920 So he does get introduced and warms his way into 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.520 the inner circle, not warms his way through. He earned 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.480 his place in the inner circle. Hee did by healing 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.480 um hemophiliac son Alexis, who was the heir to the 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.320 throne and very important to keep around and alive. And uh, 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.480 he was the only boy in the family. Yeah, despite 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.640 being a hemophiliac, he would do dumb things like rid 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.439 horses and fall off them. And apparently on the first 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.720 time that happened. The second time, um, he was not 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.040 doing so hot and respute and supposedly healed him, possibly 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.920 through hypnosis. So with hemophilia, I didn't really realize this. 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.280 I always thought hemophilia was where you cut yourself and 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:53.480 like the your your wound would cloth. It's that as well, 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.720 right or not it is, yeah, but I thought that 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.760 was it. Right. Apparently, the much bigger problem is with 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.679 internal bleeding. You know what's going on, right, And that's 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.360 what Alexei had. And uh, they were worried about him 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.000 becoming a more fanatic, so they wouldn't give him any morphine, 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.439 so he would just suffer like this, these bouts of 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.800 internal bleeding and resputing. The doctors couldn't do anything. And 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.960 resputing came along the first time and and basically just 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.360 took away his pain. Yeah, And in the nineteen twelve 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.920 that happened again. This is after the horse fall, um, 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.120 and he was I believe not there at the time, 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:31.200 and Zarina gave him a ring and said, hey, respute, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.280 and we need you to do your thing again. And 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.160 he sent a telegram that said, don't sweat it. He's 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.319 going to recover the next day. And I guess, like 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.400 you know, long distance hypnosis or whatever happened, or maybe 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.960 healing prayers, who knows, maybe none of that. Yeah, there's 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:50.679 also a hypothesis that he just he exerted the first 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.200 calming influence over the house about this matter that anyone 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.199 ever had, and that that in and of itself had 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.680 a some sort of healing effect. I think supposedly he 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:05.720 was known to be a very calming figure with hemophilia. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.839 I think to lowering your stress levels will help. Yeah, 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.280 I'll bet yeah. Man, the stress is a killer, isn't it. 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:16.000 It is literally so Um. At the same time, while 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.679 this is all going on, uh, like you said, there 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.839 were people out there that did not like him, um, 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.240 one of which not the least of which was Prime 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:29.000 Minister Peter Stolepin. And he was like gathering a case, 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.920 putting a case together basically to present and get him 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.679 ousted from the from the court saying, this guy's a 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.240 crazy sex per bard. Yeah, I think he was not 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.280 the first one to accuse him of being a clist, 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.880 but like really was taking that and running with it, 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:46.280 like he wanted him gone. And he died shot at 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.720 the opera before he could make this case. And some 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.360 say that old Czar Nicholas might have been behind that, 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.839 but we don't know that for sure. Yeah, he was bizarre. Yeah, 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.200 they were into referens very well in Russia at the 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.640 turn of the century. Was especially not a cover up 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:05.240 scan else. Um, So Peter Stolypin comes up, he tries 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.000 it fails, not try to kill him, just try to 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:12.880 get him removed. Um we should. Let's let's provide a 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.920 little backshop here. At about this time, this is a 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:21.959 ninetelve um. The Russia is undergoing the world is undergoing 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:29.679 a huge transition from agriculture two industrialization, and the Russian 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:35.640 peasantry loves the czar. They love those guys. But yeah, 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:39.920 in the cities, in urban working classes developing, and they 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.200 don't love the czar. They don't. They think the czar 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.520 is disconnected, out of touch. Is back in these agrarian 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.880 days and everybody's moving forward into the factories, and that 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.480 there's no that the Czar has no um love for 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.880 these new people. And this is where Lennon came from, 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.880 and the Bolsheviks came from, where these factories. So this 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.760 is all going on in the background that in Russia. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.960 Outside of Russia, Europe is going to war for World 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:09.720 War One. So Russia is torn between these domestic problems 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:13.960 and these international problems, and it's headed by a family 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:18.120 that is becoming viewed as increasingly out of touch with 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:23.280 what's going on in Russia and therefore have are losing 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.440 legitimacy pretty quickly. And now all of a sudden, there's 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:30.160 this weird guy who humps anything that moves and has 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.960 the ear of the Czar and the Czarina and who 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.640 where did he come from? What is what's going on? Yeah, 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.560 and increasingly less influence on the czar apparently over the years, 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.480 but increasingly more influence on the Czarina. She was way 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.319 into him, especially after he healed the sun twice, or 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.400 supposedly did, and she definitely believed he did. So, Yeah, 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:56.440 that's all exactly, that's all it took. And uh, he 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.679 even called the Mama and Papa, Yeah, it was interesting. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.839 I think that's manipulative. He was probably I take it 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.800 from my impression that he was being manipulative by calling 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:07.720 them that. And I'll bet it was creepy. I bet 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.160 it was. So he's in the newspapers and stuff. He's 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.319 he's becoming a well known guy. And I'm sure the 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.640 industrialists are reading this. And like you said, he was 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.680 this guy that's at the center of all this, and 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:24.400 he's got this great influence and who who even is he? Even? Well, 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.560 he he had not only influence, but once once Russia 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:32.600 joined World War One, um, well it was our Nicholas 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.880 goes off to command the army, and um the Czarina 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.200 is left in charge, which means Ran Sputin is sort 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.200 of in charge, but very close to being in charge himself. 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.680 And he was in a position to stack well paying, 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:52.200 high level government jobs with friends who were incompetent and inept, 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:58.000 and they almost completely undermine the infrastructure of Russia. Like 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:03.559 trains didn't operate, um, armaments weren't built for the war effort, 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.600 people weren't fed. There was like nobody running the show 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:09.880 and nobody who knew what they're doing. I was running 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.839 the show and it was all resputants fault and this 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.560 was the last straw. Yeah, this is what led to 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:22.160 the revolution. Well and also to some murder attempts. Well, yeah, 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.280 he's like Bob Marley. People would try to kill him 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.160 and it just didn't happen. You know. The first one 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:33.680 on sixteen, Um, this woman Konia because Mishna Gouseva. Oh 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.080 that was good, Chuck, thank you. Apparently was sent by 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.440 a former friend of his name Sergey Truvanov. He was 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.760 a monk who was tight with Resputant, but they split 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.200 up in nineteen eleven because he was kind of disgusted 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:51.640 by his you know, humpiness, and uh apparently sent this 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.920 woman to murder him. And she stabbed him in the 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:59.440 stomach um and like it was gnarly. Apparently he had 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:04.520 some entrail hanging out. It was easily immortal wound. But 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.400 here in the article article they just said like he 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.360 healed a few weeks later. It made it sound like 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.000 he healed himself. He had like surgeries and I think 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.800 it was like, you know, eight to ten weeks of recuperation. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.240 I don't think there was like any mystery to that, 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.720 but they did manage to save his life. Um. But 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.920 he wasn't the same after that. He became an opium 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.800 user and the daughter UM was one that was just 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.480 like it was just different after that. That sucks. He 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.520 had bad like stomach problems um, which we'll get too later. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.920 Actually that that'll play a role. See, there's one other 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.520 aspect of respute, and that I kind of gathered about 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.960 him from researching him, and that was like he had 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:47.480 this um, he had this thing he had. He had 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.920 kind of a light, he had an exuberance, He he 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.920 loved life. He UM. He didn't seem to be a 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:56.840 even though he's been accused of all sorts of manner 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:58.480 of crimes. We don't really know what he did or 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:02.040 didn't do back then because again contemporary sources are like 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.440 is he the devil? But he seemed to have something 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.720 that was really neat about him, Like he was somebody 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.760 that I think a lot of people wanted to be around. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:15.000 And the idea that like that went out of his 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.800 stomach wound. Let's say it is not as sad as 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.200 what ultimately happens to him, but but let's keep going, 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.200 all right, What ultimately happened is a plot was hatched 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:28.600 and we'll get to the the newer, possibly truer story. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.080 But here's the original story. Prince Felix yusup Off. He 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:36.800 was the the husband of the niece of the Czar 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:42.800 Nicholas on December. He was also the gay lover of 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.080 the person who was also an heir to the throne 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.360 if Alexei didn't make it who the Brits favored. So 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:52.720 he was married to the niece and the gay lover 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.720 of Yeah, he had both his basis cover basic exactly 0:16:56.200 --> 0:17:02.280 look good for him. En, that's pretty you know, forward thinking. Sure, so, 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.680 uh he plotted to we're all going to evolve into 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:09.840 bisexual maybe he uh he plotted to kill Respute and 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.480 to save Russia. And here's where things really like. The 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.800 details of how this went down are really highly disputed 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:20.520 this day. Um. Supposedly, yeah, supposedly he invited him over 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.679 said hey, uh, come take a look at my wife. 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.119 He'd like her. I also read that he said we 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.720 got a gypsy wine party going on over here, and 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.720 recipuinges like I'm there. Well, here's here's the deal. Though. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.000 He gets there. He he laces pastries and cakes and 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.800 wine with cyanide enough to kill like five men supposedly 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:43.320 respute and starts chowing down, nothing happens. The daughter disputes 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.840 this and said he would not. He had bad stomach 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:50.160 problems after his stabbing incident, and he didn't drink wine 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.159 or eat sweets anymore. That's what she said, Well, that 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:57.119 explains it. Later finding that's what she said, Um, it 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.919 does explain later filling perhaps, but he hyper acidity in 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.560 the stomach, and she's like, he just wouldn't have been 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.959 doing that, or possibly he was immune. That was another theory, 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.520 which I think is bunk, that he had taken part 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:15.440 of mithridoticism, which is like slowly building up your immunity 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.040 to poison by ingesting small amounts of poison. I've been 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:23.600 doing that for years, I'm sure yea oh is that why? Okay? Um? 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.160 Or maybe they said have a theory that the cyanide 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.479 might have vaporized when they baked the stuff in cakes. 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.240 Oh yeah, the high temperatures. But at any rate, the 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.120 poison had no effect on him, and they were like, 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.840 what is going on with this creep? Like he could 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.080 have killed ten men with the stuff or an ox 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.639 used to POV later said really so, they said, I 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:44.359 don't know what we'll do. Let's just shoot him in 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:49.560 the back, easy peasy, easy peasy, and uh he did 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:53.399 so he fell down and died. That they fought. He 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.880 checked his pulse first, they went upstairs and partied. Well, 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.600 they checked him out and then like he's dead, let's 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.000 go part And then he came back down I think 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:04.639 to get a coat or something and checked him again 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.240 to get I think that's what the story, how the 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:12.840 story goes really Yeah, and um, that's when resputants just 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.640 like he comes alive and like attacks the guy after 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.600 they shot him twice in the back, right, I think 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.120 at least once two times at that point, I think 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.320 so they ended up being four total, with one in 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.679 the forehead, which we'll get to his Well, Okay, so 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.280 they shot him once and then they came back downstairs 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.119 and he's still moving. Not only not only is he 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.879 still alive, he manages to get to his feet and 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.880 bust out the door and out into the yard, out 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.720 into Eusten POV's yard. And that's when they shot him twice, yeah, 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:47.000 and beat him like severely. There's pictures of his body 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:51.200 like he was severely beaten with a rubber club. Um, 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.879 tied him in a blanket, dumped his body in the 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:56.320 Neva River. So let's go over this again. Shot in 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:58.840 the back. Once he gets up, goes outside. They shoot 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.160 him two more times. They beat him with the club, 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.679 They wrap him up in a blanket. Somebody shot him 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:05.800 in the forehead too. There was a fourth shot. Okay, 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.000 shot him in the forehead, wrap up in a blanket, 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.639 drop him into a frozen river that they've carved a 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:15.320 hole into, and then that's that for resputin. That's that 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.639 until they find him. And they found him and his 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.000 arm was outstretched like he'd managed to struggle free of 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:26.200 the blanket, right, he managed to partially free himself, indicating 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:27.919 that maybe he wasn't even dead when they put him 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:29.840 in the water. So they did an autopsy on him. 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:34.960 In the autopsy lists resputants mode of death as hypothermia, 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.480 not not not being shot four times, not being beaten 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.879 to death, including the forehead shot, which they all manner 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:46.680 of like evidence says that this is was a kill 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:50.919 shot by a professional. Yeah, but supposedly he died of hypothermia, 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.560 and thens seriously they didn't, although now that you've explained it, 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:58.119 not so mysteriously they didn't find arsenic in his system, 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:01.639 but that until I guess recently, I think as cyanide. 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.919 Cyanide okay um was a that was a big point 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.560 of lore, like he ate all this stuff, this paste, 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.400 this cyanide laced pastry, and like it didn't even show 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:13.480 up in a system. Well, it sounds like it didn't 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:15.480 show up in a system because he didn't actually eat 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:19.120 that stuff. And we have great cause to wonder if 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:22.639 he was beaten. Was he Yeah, he was beaten? Okay, 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.800 so he was shot four times and I guess he 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:31.719 was dumped in the river. But what's in dispute then him? Yeah? 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.600 Who shot him? And what was the actual cause of death? 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.320 Did he really free his arm or was that just 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:39.560 something that you know that happened? Like what was the 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.280 cause of death? And did they cut his penis? Well, 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:46.359 that's a big one to supposedly, man, all these double 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:51.640 I apologize, there's another one I haven't. I haven't met 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.320 a single. Oh my god, I just needed to stop. 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:58.960 So supposedly they may have uh cut his penis off 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:04.040 and it is changed hands throughout the year, maybe even 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:06.720 belonging to a French collector who loaned it to a 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:08.800 Russian museum to put on display for a little while. 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:13.239 There are pictures, um, and we just don't know if 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:16.840 that's it or not. If it is, it's ginormous good, 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:20.160 good for resputing, so much so that um apparently by 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:24.119 no one's actually tested it, but just looking at it, 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.600 some biologists feeling like that's a horse, that's from a 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:31.080 horse or a cow. Yeah, or as you said earlier, 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:34.200 it looked like a baby's arm holding an orange, And 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:37.320 I think so we don't know if that's his penis 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:40.520 or not. It's definitely adds another little strange sidebar to 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:43.560 the story. It definitely does. You know. Also we should 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:47.560 say that after he was buried in the Bolsheviks revolted. Um, 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:51.359 they dug him up and burned his body. Oh yeah, 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:52.919 because I don't think I knew that. We should say 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:57.240 the Bolsheviks did revolt. The Czar abdicated the crown in 0:22:57.440 --> 0:23:01.360 March of I think nineteen seven, and team and then 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:04.159 the revolution happened. They were placed under house arrest, and 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:08.719 then very famously, the entire roman Off family, their doctor, 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:12.080 two servants in the family dog were all executed by 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:17.000 Bolshevik revolutionaries, including Anastasia. Yeah, and and resput and had 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:20.040