He Was,

assassinated 100 years ago,  

yesterday, in the early morning of December 30, 1916, the police investigation never led to a court case, and those who are suspected of being involved gave conflicting reports, the legend goes that after surviving several earlier assassination attempts, on December 30, Rasputin was poisoned, which had no effect; shot in the chest, but he got back up; beaten, to no avail; and then shot in the head, when he finally succumbed to death, sometimes an attempted drowning is included in the story, but Rasputin was dead when his body was thrown in the Neva River, where it was found two days later under ice, one hundred years later, we are still fascinated by the story of the mystic who wielded a huge influence over the last Tsar's family, Grigori Rasputin, the mad monk of Russia, but was he so mad? for a slightly different look at the story have a look here at Darmon Richter and Diana Naneva's site of the webcomic Rasputina.