Was Rasputin shot with a Nagant revolver?

[Vegaslaith]

I was watching a show about of Russia on the History Channel yesterday. I only caught the last half hour where they talked about the fall of the last Royal family, the Romanovs, and the rise of the Bolsheviks/communism.

Anyway, they got to the part where the Bolsheviks famously tried to kill Rasputin by poisoning, stabbing, clubbing and untimately shooting him before dumping him into a river. The reenactment showed a Nagant revolver. Given that it was 1917 or 1918, is that historically accurate?

 

[HB]

If it was, no wonder he wouldn't die Use enough gun...

HB

 

[Oleg Volk]

If I recall correctly, Model 1900 Browning was rather more likely as gentleman's pistol back then. Nagants were largely army weapons, not civilian.

Bolsheviks famously tried to kill Rasputin

It was Prince Usupov and friends who killed Rasputin.

 

[Blofeld]

Produced in 1894, but unlikely. Have you ever tried to find ammo for those things?

 

[Quiet]

Given the year of the assassination, if the group of nobles that killed Rasputin used a revolver it was most likely a Nagant M-1895.




In 1870, the .44Russian calibered S&W No. 3 was made the standard issue sidearm for the Russian Imperial Army.

In 1895, the 7.62x38mmR calibered Nagant M-1895 was made the standard issue sidearm for the Russian Imperial Army and Police.

In 1933, the 7.62x25mm calibered Tokarev TT-33 was made the standard issue sidearm for the USSR Army.

 

[mattk]

If it was a Prince and his friends, he may have had any number of guns available to him that may not have been common in Russia.

Rank hath its privelages.

 

[taprackbang]

They should have used a Mosin (M44) on Ras. When you kill a lunatic,
bring enough gun!

 

[Shung]

according to the last research, he was still alive when they put him underwater... that is what killed him.

 

[chupacabrah]

according to the last research, he was still alive when they put him underwater... that is what killed him.

I thought he didn't die even then?
(anybody see Hellboy? haha)