The King's Man True Story: How Rasputin Really Died
Warning: Contains spoilers for The King's Man.
One of The King's Man's biggest villains is Rasputin — but how exactly did the real Grigori Rasputin die? The King's Man's WWI story features a number of real-life historical figures, but perhaps none are as unforgettable as Rhys Ifans' Grigori Rasputin. A member of the villainous secret organization known as the Flock, Rasputin is shown to be manipulating Tsar Nicholas into having Russia leave the war.
The real-life Rasputin was actually relatively close to his King's Man counterpart. A self-proclaimed holy man who befriended Tsar Nicholas, Rasputin was a mystic figure thought to be unkillable. However, in The King's Man, Rasputin is killed by the Duke of Oxford and his associates (albeit with some difficulty). Of course, in real life, Rasputin was not killed by an English nobleman in his underpants and his network of spies.
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Aside from that, there are actually a striking number of similarities between Rasputin's death in The King's Man and his death in real life. While The King's Man changed some historical events, its handling of Rasputin's death was actually kept relatively close to the truth. This isn't just limited to his specific cause of death, either, but also is true of the events leading up to it, making The King's Man's Rasputin story surprisingly accurate. Felix Yusupov, who also appears in The King's Man, decided that Rasputin's influence over the tsarina threatened Russia and that he needed to die. According to Yusupov, he and a small group of Russian nobles and politicians invited Rasputin to his house one night and offered him tea and cakes poisoned with cyanide. The poison had little to no effect on the real-life
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