Word: purishkevitch
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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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...
Frightened, Youssoupov pulled a pistol from his pocket and fired into the monk's greasy soutane. Rasputin, foaming at the mouth, kept whispering "Felix, Felix." Youssoupov rushed upstairs where Grand Duke Dmitri. Deputy Purishkevitch and another conspirator named Sukhotin were waiting. "He's alive! He's alive!" cried the Prince. They could hear Rasputin bellowing as he crawled upstairs on hands and knees. Purishkevitch fired three more shots, and Rasputin was pushed out on the sidewalk...
...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...
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