SYSK Selects: What's the deal with Rasputin's death?

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• Episode: SYSK Selects: What's the deal with Rasputin's death?
• Website: Stuff You Should Know
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• Duration: 00:35:03
• Published: 2017-06-03 15:40

In this week's SYSK Select episode, Grigori Rasputin, the Russian charismatic cleric and political advisor to the ruling Romanovs, is said to have been poisoned, shot, shot again, bludgeoned and drowned. Exactly how did he die and how would such a legend grow around a modern figure?