I Am Guessing,

many will recognize this photograph,

for those that do not it is Rasputin, who a group of murders tried to kill, by poisoning him with cyanide, when that did not work by shooting him, finally killing him by throwing him into a freezing river, to finally kill him by drowning, apparently he, Rasputin, had superhuman strength and magical powers, but one thing, there was only one key eyewitness account, written by one of the killers, Felix Yussupov, so perhaps the 'facts' were embellished to save later claims that the murderers did indeed kill an unarmed priest, at Rasputin's autopsy it was a fact, that there was no cyanide in his body, also it was a fact that there was no water in his lungs, he was dead before he hit the water, what did kill him was one of a number of bullets, the fatal one in his forehead, it appears that his death had to be made dramatic to hide the simple murder, in later years even the British Secret Service were rumoured to be involved in his murder, for a look at the autopsy and other paperwork have a look here, all three links for myself are a fascinating read.