He is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating characters in history: Rasputin, the self-proclaimed holy man who claimed to be a holistic healer, madman, womanizer, hater of baths and personal friend to the royal family of Russia. Even today he is a shadowy and mysterious character. He was also accused of being a spy for the Germans, the devil incarnate, a hypnotist, and rumored to be a seducer of the Czarina (the Queen of Russia). Plus he was hung. His penis has been preserved in formaldehyde since it was severed in 1916, after conspirators beat the shit out of him and dumped him in the St. Petersburg Canal. In 2004, Igor Knyazkin, the chief of the prostate research center of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, announced that he was opening a Russian museum of erotica in St. Petersburg, Russia. Among the exhibits, Knyazkin claims, is the 30cm (12 inch) long "preserved penis" of Grigori Rasputin. Knyazkin had said that merely viewing the supposed penis will cure males of impotency.[10] It is not known if the penis is indeed that of Rasputin.
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