This is an excellent example of a mundane murder by a conspiracy of terrified incompetents which became magnified into a legend by various interested parties – a legend which persists in the popular consciousness today, despite the facts having been known for many decades.
One of the things you can do if you have a generational jump in your series is to turn the earlier events, and characters, into legend. Sherri S. Tepper does it in Raising the Stones, and Brandon Sanderson does it between the first and second Mistborn trilogies. But it doesn’t need to take generations; the legend of Rasputin was well established within ten years of his death.
Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette
The Murder of Rasputin: The 100th Anniversary of a Mystery That Won’t Die https://shar.es/1DJUYH
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