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Whose body, burned after death, straightened up and sat down in a fire?

After the February Revolution, a group of workers dug up the body of Grigory Rasputin, who was killed at the end of 1916, from the grave in order to burn it. According to eyewitnesses, the body lying in the fire straightened up and took a sitting position, which greatly frightened those present and only strengthened the mystical halo around the figure of Rasputin. This incident can be explained by the fact that before burning, the tendons on the body were not cut, which contracted from heating and bent the body in the lower back, and the legs at the knees.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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