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Bulletproof and Bathless

How a filthy, charismatic mystic manipulated the Russian royal family and helped trigger the collapse of an empire.

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PROLOGUE LET’S START WITH the part everyone remembers: They tried to kill Rasputin. God knows they tried. They claimed they poisoned him with enough cyanide to kill a horse. He just kept sipping wine and talking shit. So they shot him. Point-blank. In the chest. He got back up. So they shot him again. Still breathing. So they beat him, shot him more for good measure, tied him up, and dumped him in a freezing-ass river. People claimed his lungs had water in them. If that’s true, he hit the river still alive. If not, the legend didn’t care. You don’t kill Rasputin. You just slow him down. But here's the thing: he should’ve never been there in the first place. Rasputin wasn’t some royal. He...

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