Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot to murder Rasputin originated in a Guards regiment in which Prince Youssoupov and the Grand Duke Dmitri were serving. They enlisted the aid of Vladimir Purishkevitch, a member of the Duma. When lecherous Rasputin reached the Youssoupov palace on the night of Dec. 16, servants were kept at the head of the stairs, talking, playing the phonograph, acting as if a party were still in progress. Downstairs used plates and half-filled glasses were scattered about as if a formal supper had just ended. Some little cakes and a few glasses of wine were packed with enough potassium cyanide...
...murder in the cinema was the work of one man, thus differing in detail from the actuality...
...time of the murder of Rasputin, Princess Irina, instead of being a young girl at court in Petrograd, was married and a mother and visiting relatives in the Caucasus...
...have an interest in fair play and right. I was actually acquainted not only with Rasputin himself, but with Purish-kevitch and the others. I was actually invited by Purishkevitch to murder Rasputin. . . . We had a plot on foot to save the Tsar, but nothing came of it. Chegodiev in the film seemed more like Grand Duke Dmitri. It never occurred to me Natasha was Princess Irina...
...champagne salesman living in Palm Beach with his wife, the onetime Audrey Emery (,f Cincinnati and New York, Grand Duke Dmitri has never written about, described or discussed his part in the murder of Rasputin. Last week he refused to be interviewed about the London trial...