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.
Some historians throw doubt on a few points of this version: 1  The reason the wine did not poison him was that it was a weak mixture. 2  The poison in the pastries did not affect Rasputin because he NEVER ate meat or pastries or other sweets. 3  It was not Purishkevich who shot Rasputin, but Great Prince Dimitry.