BURIAL OF RASPUTIN.
STRANGE DETAILS. Petrograd, April 10. There are strange details of the reburial of Rasputin. After his body had been flung into the Neva, the Court commanded its recovery, and it was reburied with great solemnity at Tsarskoevelo, where, it was currently believed that his spirit was »s potent as Rasputin had been in life. The Provincial Government, fearing the body might become the centre of a mischievous cult), ordered its reburial in tho Yeborg Forest. Four trustworthy men .were entrusted with the task of removing it on a motor lorry, which stuck in a snowdrift. Tho local militia arrived, insisted on explanations, and finally made a bonfire, which consumed Rasputin's remains.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1917, Page 5
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114BURIAL OF RASPUTIN. Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1917, Page 5
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