User blog comment:SniperGhost/Star Lords/@comment-1745925-20100705113042

All I know of is how he died. It is as follows:

In 1914, he survived what should have been a mortal knife wound.

In 1916, his assassins poisoned him, then stabbed, beat, shot, emasculated, and drowned him in a frozen-over river in order to ensure his demise. Three days later his body was recovered from the river, finding evidence that he had tried to claw his way out of the ice. The official autopsy found the cause of death to be drowning