• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Well, they tried to kill Rasputin a bunch of times, but never succeeded. I don’t know if they tried the window thing.

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      5 months ago

      Unfortunately there isn’t actually much evidence for this being true, just some stories told by Russian soldiers who already hated and feared the guy. There were a lot of myths around the whole thing that mostly seem to be bs.

      Basically “oooh big magician guy … scary, woooo… did you know the youngest daughter survived too?”

      That said, I do not believe they attempted any window-hurling, that probably would have been a good test for magical powers.