Yaƙin Duniya na ɗaya, wargaza ƴan tawaye, da tsoma bakin gwamnati duk sun ba da gudummawa ga saurin durƙushewar tattalin arzikin Rasha.Mutane da yawa sun dora laifin a kan Alexandria da Rasputin.Wani mai magana da yawun Duma, dan siyasa mai ra'ayin mazan jiya Vladimir Purishkevich, ya bayyana a cikin Nuwamba 1916 cewa ministocin tsar sun zama 'yan marine, mariionettes waɗanda Rasputin da Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna suka kama zaren su a hannu. Rasha da Tsarina… wanda ya kasance Bajamushe a kan karagar Rasha kuma baƙo ga ƙasar da mutanenta”.Kungiyar manyan mutane karkashin jagorancin Yarima Felix Yusupov, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, da dan siyasa na hannun dama Vladimir Purishkevich sun yanke shawarar cewa tasirin Rasputin a kan tsarina yana barazana ga daular, kuma sun shirya wani shiri don kashe shi.Ranar 30 ga Disamba, 1916, an kashe Rasputin a farkon safiya a gidan Felix Yusupov.Ya rasu ne sakamakon raunin harbin bindiga guda uku, daya daga cikin harbin da aka yi masa a kusa da goshinsa.Babu tabbas game da mutuwarsa fiye da wannan, kuma yanayin mutuwarsa ya kasance batun hasashe mai yawa.A cewar ɗan tarihi Douglas Smith, "abin da ya faru da gaske a gidan Yusupov a ranar 17 ga Disamba ba za a taɓa saninsa ba".