The Moika Protocol
Yusupov Palace, Petrograd — December 1916
Location
Yusupov Palace, Petrograd
Date
December 1916
Complexity
High
Playtime
3–6 hours
In the early hours of 17 December 1916, Grigori Rasputin — mystic, healer, the most hated man in Russia — vanished after a midnight visit to the Yusupov Palace on the Moika embankment. Two days later his body was pulled from the river ice.
The story everyone knows was written by the killers themselves: cakes laced with cyanide, poisoned wine, a man who refused to die. But the autopsy found no poison at all. The palace's own floor plan contradicts the memoirs. And buried in the files sits a phrase that belongs to British arms routing — not to a Russian family quarrel.
A century of legend stands between you and one night's truth. Work from autopsy excerpts, witness statements and intercepted correspondence. Decide who moved first, who followed — and who never had to enter the cellar at all.
Evidence Teaser
The Legend Has a Floor Plan
The autopsy that found no cyanide
An unsigned warning
The cellar where the legend was staged
The Missing Man
Grigori Rasputin
The public story turned him into a monster who would not die. The file turns him back into evidence: a visitor, a body, and a contradiction the memoirs cannot survive.
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Test the legend against the autopsy, the rooms, and the correspondence that should never have reached the file.
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The Moika Protocol is an interactive historical mystery built from public legend, documented contradictions, and fictionalized investigative material. It does not claim to present a definitive solution to the real case.