19 December — in the morning, near the Petrovsky Bridge, the body of Grigory Rasputin was found washed up against the bank. The investigation is being conducted by the judicial authorities. After Rasputin’s death, it emerged that he was a major Moscow property owner: he owned a house on one of the central boulevards. It is said that there were negotiations to purchase other skyscrapers.
17 July — in the Central Asian city of Khujand (then called Khojent; today it is known as Khujand), mass unrest began, which became the trigger for the Turkestan uprising—one of the largest anti-Russian uprisings in Central Asia—accompanied by bloody pogroms against the Russian population, and then by retaliatory brutal measures on the part of the Russian army.