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.
Rasputin was born in 1872 and died in 1916 and he was to be one of the central figures in Russiaâs modern history up to the fall of the royal family in 1917. Rasputin achieved huge power in a very short space of time â but that power lead to Rasputin having many enemies within Russia. â¢ Rasputin had a major hold over the royal family of Russia because of his âpowerâ to heal the young heir to the throne â Alexis. Alexis was a hemophiliac and any cut to his body was a serious risk to his health. â¢ he lived as a peasant and was uneducated. â¢ in 1901, he left his home in Siberia and wandered.