Data: Law of Periods. Data confirming Kepler's Law of Periods comes from measurements of the motion of the planets.
The death of Rasputin - December, 1916. One hundred years ago on 30 December 1916, Grigori Rasputin, the Russian mystic who became a confidant of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, was brutally killed. After supposedly being poisoned, shot and beaten, he was thrown into the freezing waters of St. Petersburgâs Neva River by aristocrats fearful of the influence he wielded over the Romanov court.
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Ð³ÑÐ¸Ð³Ð¾ÌÑÐ¸Ð¹ ÐµÑÐ¸ÌÐ¼Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ°ÑÐ¿ÑÌÑÐ¸Ð½) (January 10, 1869 - December 16, 1916 (O.S.)) was a Russian mystic with an influence in the later days of Russia's Romanov dynasty. He was also known as the Mad Monk, although he was not actually a monk, but a starets (ÑÑÐ°ÌÑÐµÑ), or religious pilgrim.