Oswald Rayner

Born: 29 November 1888
Died: 6 March 1961, aged about 73
Record: Wikidata Q1393344 · Wikipedia

Suspect in The Killing of Rasputin

British intelligence officer in Petrograd and an Oxford friend of Yusupov; some writers claim he fired the fatal shot, but no document links him to the killing.

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.