Death of Rasputin: A Night of Ice, Blood, and the Fall of an Empire . Content Warning.
The night air bit like glass.
St. Petersburg lay frozen under a shroud of snow, the moonlight sharp against the black waters of the Neva. It was December 30, 1916, and behind the ornate iron gates of the Yusupov Palace, a crime was about to unfold that would echo through Russian history like a gunshot in a cathedral. The conspirators had prepared everything: the cyanide, the revolver, the silence. They believed that killing one man could stop a revolution. They were wrong.
