Are there any medical explanations for why Rasputin took so long to die and was so difficult to kill?
Indeed, certainly.
Above all else, all records of the homicide — from 19-year-old Maria Rasputin and the killers, the 29-year-old Felix Yusupov and 47-year-old Vladimir Purishkevich — are clearly one-sided. The dramatic subtleties of the homicide given by Yusupov have never faced examination. He changed his record a few times. Purishkevich’s record likewise varies fundamentally from Yusupov’s. None of these can be viewed as serious proof.
Second, we should examine the endeavors:
Endeavor №1 — Cyanide harming. As per the killers, they served him petits-fours bound with enormous portions of cyanide (allegedly fit for killing 5 developed men), which didn’t appear to make any difference. Notwithstanding, the post-mortem neglected to recognize any toxic substance in Rasputin’s stomach. That has been ascribed to the way that the sugar and high cooking temperatures had killed the toxic substance. Also, Rasputin allegedly experienced high stomach sharpness, which deterred him from eating a lot of desserts.
Endeavors №2 and 3 — Shootings. Yusupov reports shooting Rasputin on different occasions “in the heart” at short proximity, which again neglected to kill him. In the wake of tumbling down, Rasputin “hopped back to his feet angrily”, then, at that point, headed out to the patio, where Purishkevich shot him another multiple times (missing multiple times). By then, Rasputin previously had two or three lethal injuries, which would have killed him in 10–20 minutes in any case. In any case, in the wake of tumbling down once more, his body made another jerk, which provoked the executioners to shoot him by and by, that time point-clear in the temple. That really killed him.
Endeavor №4 — “Suffocating”. In the wake of shooting Rasputin in the head, the killers tossed him into the Malaya Nevka waterway. They neglected to connect loads to the feet to make the body sink. His fur garment gave buoyancy by catching air and the carcass floated into an ice mass, which kept the body from cleaning out into the ocean. Rumors from far and wide suggest that the examination laid out suffocating as the reason for that; that was unadulterated obscurity, in any case.
End: Rasputin didn’t take long to bite the dust. He was easy to kill. He was killed by a lot of beginners who had no clue about the thing they were doing. They didn’t have the foggiest idea how to approach killing somebody. After the deed had been finished, they significantly adorned their records of the homicide — to give themselves more significance, and to reinforce the fantasy that Rasputin was Satan, the Antichrist whom they chivalrously killed to free Mother Russia.