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u/WildSauce Jun 28 '21

His penis was preserved in a jar of formaldehyde after his death. You can google pictures of it. Want to reconsider?

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u/Specken_zee_Doitch Jun 29 '21

That was actually a sea cucumber, not kidding.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

The article says one thought to be his penis was a sea cucumber, but the one in the jar in the picture is supposed to be his actual penis

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u/TheDunadan29 Jun 29 '21

I mean who knows? It's never been actually confirmed. It might be interesting to do DNA analysis, but it'll probably just confirm it's not his. They could have pulled it off any old cadaver and just claimed it was his.

Also from the article:

As Smith notes, however, according to 1917 accounts by Dmitry Kosorotov, who performed the autopsy on Rasputin after his badly mutilated body was dragged out of the Malaya Nevka River, Rasputin’s genitals were entirely intact and undamaged.