Rasputin

zzorus · 01-13-2005

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@Jan 12 2005, 04:35 AM
Oh damn, I was hoping I could dispell this, as Rusputin's body was never found.

Yes, the guy servived eating a poisoned dinner, so his assailants had to shoot him, then dumped his body in the Volga (IIRC) it was never found.

But ooks like it was figured out to be a fake already :P

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The river was the Neva. His body was found; there was water in his lungs, which showed that drowning was the cause of death.

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Hmm, not the way I was taught it. But, just about everything can be disputed, and htere is allways contrary information :/

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My sources are a book by Colin Wilson on Rasputin,
and the autiobiography of Felix Yussopov. I'm sorry I cannot give the full details, but I lent both books some time ago ( and they have not been returned!)
I did a quick Google check, and there was a statement that Rasptin's body was found the next day.
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~pbarry/ras2/
From memory, both the books I have mentioned said that his body was recovered, and that drowning was the cause of death: so this was the basis of my post.

madame_zora · 01-13-2005

Um, I hate to be a party pooper, but that's not a sea cucumber! That's clearly a penis head in foreskin, sea cucumbers don't look like that at all. I don't know if it's Rasputin's penis, but it's somebody's. I would hazzard a guess that if it is Rasputin's, that it would have been removed after his body was recovered, not before, which would account for the discolouration and bloating.

DoubleMeatWhopper · 01-13-2005

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Originally posted by SomeGuyOverThere@Jan 12 2005, 06:00 PM
Hmm, not the way I was taught it. But, just about everything can be disputed, and htere is allways contrary information :/

The autopsy of Rasputin's body is a published document accompanied by photos, therefore his body was indeed found. The report was so detailed that it even described the position of his hands when he was fished out of the Neva: they seemed to be raised in a gesture of benediction. This bit of information helped determine that Rasputin was indeed still alive when Prince Felix Yusupov's cronies dumped him into the river.

Nienna · 01-31-2005

Well, it seems obvious to me ( or maybe I just watch to much tv) That the easy way to figure out if itis infact a penis, would be to CSI the damn thing? no? I mean with all the advanced tests and stuff they can do, could they not determine the truth??????

Guest · 02-01-2005

carolinacurious: Well yes, of course they could determine whether or not it's a penis. If it is fake (doesn't look fake to me) it's more valuable to the museum as is.

I had always heard that Rasputin was also repeatedly stabbed before they had to drown him.

I think the deal about Napoleon is because they auctioned it off a few years ago. It's not really fair, Napoleons penis wasn't "preserved", I believe it was wrapped in silk and put in a metal box, so it was dry and shriveled to almost nothing.

Wasn't Dillingers penis actually in some sort of law enforcement museum next door to one of the Smithsonian buildings?

Am I the only one who has ever wondered if the reason "we" supposedly dislike the French and the Russians so much is that they threw "better" revolutions than we did?

LucMitchell · 10-01-2007

Yes, his body was found and the Empress Alexandra, wife of Nicholas II, built a chapel in the gardens of the Alexander Palace at Tsakoyselo and had the body interred there. During the Russian Revolution, a mob broke tnto the palace gardens and grabbed his body and took it to St. petersburg where it was tossed in a bonfire. Before it was, a russian cut Rasputin's penis off and kept it for many years. This is what is supposedly in the Erotica Museum. I saw it in the museum during a trip to Russia last year.