Rasputin's last letter

Believe it or not. This was Rasputin's last letter.

I write and leave behind me this letter at St. Petersburg. I feel that I shall leave life before January 1st. I wish to make known to the Russian people, to Papa, to the Russian Mother and to the children, to the land of Russia, what they must understand. If I am killed by  common assassins, and especially  by  my brothers the  Russian  peasants,  you, Tsar  of Russia, have  nothing to fear, remain on your throne and govern, and  you,  Russian Tsar, will have nothing to fear for your children, they will reign for hundreds of years in Russia. But  if I am  murdered by boyars, nobles, and if they shed my blood, their hands will remain  soiled with  my  blood, for twenty-five  years  they  will  not  wash  their  hands  from my blood. They will leave Russia.  Brothers  will kill brothers,  and  they  will kill each  other and hate each other, and for twenty-five years there will be no noblers in the country. Tsar of  the land of Russia, if you hear the sound of the bell which will tell you that Grigory  has been killed, you must know this: if it was your relations who have  wrought my  death then no one of your family, that is to say, none of your children or relations will remain  alive  for  more  than two  years.  They will  be killed by the Russian people...I shall be killed. I am no longer among the living.  Pray,  pray,  be strong,  think of  your  blessed family.
Words written by Grigory Rasputin in a letter to the Tsarina Alexandra, 7 Dec 1916
23 days later, Rasputin was killed, by two relatives of the Tsar Nicholas II
19 months after Rasputin's death, the Tsar and his family lay dead