Perpetrator
Felix Yusupov
- Born
- 23 March 1887
- Died
- 27 September 1967, aged about 80
- Record
- Wikidata Q312997 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in The Killing of Rasputin
Prince and organiser of the plot, in whose palace the killing took place; confined to his estate, then lived in exile and wrote the best-known account.
1916–1917 · Moika Palace, Petrograd · Never caught
Poisoned cakes, a man who would not die, a body under the ice: the famous story comes from one of Rasputin's killers. The autopsy tells a plainer one. Read the case.
Dated events
Rasputin is killed at the Yusupov palace on the Moika in the early hours, and his body is pushed under the ice of the Little Nevka.
Rasputin is buried at Tsarskoye Selo; Dmitri Pavlovich is sent to the Persian front and Yusupov to his estate.