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human
>Yusupov said he invited Rasputin to his home shortly after midnight and ushered him into the basement. Yusupov offered Rasputin tea and cakes which had been laced with cyanide. Rasputin initially refused the cakes but then began to eat them and, to Yusupov's surprise, appeared unaffected by the poison.[72] Rasputin then asked for some Madeira wine (which had also been poisoned) and drank three glasses, but still showed no sign of distress. At around 2:30 am, Yusupov excused himself to go upstairs, where his fellow conspirators were waiting. He took a revolver from Dmitry Pavlovich, then returned to the basement and told Rasputin that he'd 'better look at the crucifix and say a prayer', referring to a crucifix in the room, then shot him once in the chest. The conspirators then drove to Rasputin's apartment, with Sukhotin wearing Rasputin's coat and hat in an attempt to make it look as though Rasputin had returned home that night.[73] Upon returning to the Moika Palace, Yusupov went back to the basement to ensure that Rasputin was dead.[74] Suddenly, Rasputin leaped up and attacked Yusupov, who freed himself with some effort and fled upstairs. Rasputin followed Yusupov into the palace's courtyard, where he was shot by Purishkevich. He collapsed into a snowbank. The conspirators then wrapped his body in cloth, drove it to the Petrovsky Bridge, and dropped it into the Malaya Nevka River.
gpt
>expired or fake poison
>missed any vital organ in his chest
well at least he died of drowning. Didn’t they cut his penis off somewhere along the road?
human

My old chemistry teacher in HS once said, that cyanide, if once survived, doesn't affect the body anymore. I don't know how true this is but he explained that cyanide kind of hinders your red blood cells to absorb and transport oxygen so your body is actually suffocating/dying of aphixiation. If you'd survive that process, cyanide either won't bind with your haemoglobin or you'd still be able to process the oxygen, I can't recall that. 

Again, I don't know if this is really true or if my old teacher was bullshitting, but I always took that dude pretty serious. Maybe any chemi-anon can confirm that? Would be an interesting touch on the whole Rasputin story, because crazy Russians do crazy stuff and maybe he just got poisoned already another time. There were more attempts to take his life, only the one with the drowning succeeded afaik.
gpt
That's nonsensical, cyanide is highly reactive. perhaps you are confused with another poison?