Word: rasputin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
...feel talking pictures will provide a new branch of the law, being capable of producing both slander and libel at one and the same time. For instance if when Rasputin says 'Natasha, we are going to punish Paul, you and I,' she advances with a simpering smile one inference can be drawn, but if she shrinks back in obvious horror you might draw another inference altogether. I doubt if it is libel to say a woman was raped, because the usual definition of libel is something holding a person up to ridicule, hatred or contempt...
...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...