"At the end of 1916, a group of aristocrats decided that Rasputinâs influence had grown too great and that he had to be killed in order to save Russia. They lured him to the palace of one of the princes; fed him poisoned cakes and wine, shot him and then threw him into the frozen river."
That makes it sound like overkill but they first fed him cakes laced with cyanide and he ate loads and should have been dead, then they shot him a few times but he survived and tried to escape, then they chucked him in the river, where he drowned (meaning he was still alive when they chucked him in).
As for his penis, it looks disgusting in that picture but I guess mine would after 80 years. Despite his penis, he was a quite dirty, unkept (unkemp?) man but probably like that and randy because of his big dick. That's about it...
The dig they had at Napoleon's penis in that article is weird too...