Dec. 30, 2025

1281: The Assassination of Russia’s “Mad Monk”

1281: The Assassination of Russia’s “Mad Monk”
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1281: The Assassination of Russia’s “Mad Monk”
December 30, 1916. Grigori Rasputin, the mystic confidant of the Russian royals, is assassinated in St. Petersburg, accelerating the fall of the Romanov dynasty.

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