72: Rasputin and the Romanovs, Part 4 - Stay Out Of Basements

The clock has ticked its last tock for the mad monk of Pokrovskoye and the Romanov dynasty. For the finale of this series, we first discuss the Looney Tunes-like assassination of Grigori Rasputin: a man who just refused to die, and more than you ever wanted to know about the fate of Rasputin's most prized "possession". We then proceed down more somber territory as we cover the imprisonment, tightening chokehold, and execution of the Romanov family. This brutal demise, along with the ridiculous mishaps by the Bolsheviks in an effort to "bury" the truth, marked the true beginning of Soviet Russia.