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In December 1916 The Siberian Mystic Grigori Rasputin Wrote A Letter To The Tsar Predicting His Own Murder. He Warned That If He Were Killed By Nobles Or The Tsar's Own Relatives, Then No One In The Imperial Family Would Remain Alive For More Than Two Years, And They Would Be Killed By The Russian People. Weeks Later Nobles Murdered Him. Eighteen Months Later The Whole Family Was Shot.

1916-1918 · Petrograd & Yekaterinburg · 2:38 · June 29, 2026
GRIGORI RASPUTIN · 1869-1916 · Siberian peasant mystic and healer to the Romanov court · foretold the fall of the dynasty

Narration

In December 1916, a Russian peasant wrote a letter to the Tsar. In it he predicted his own murder, named the kind of men who would do it, and warned exactly what would happen to the royal family afterward. Within three weeks he was dead. Within two years, every word had come true.

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