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By such means did Rasputin retain the favour of the people and of the Empress herself. One night he received a telegram in cipher, which he gave me to decode. It had been despatched from Paris and read: "The appointment is at Savignyplatz, 17, Charlottenburg. Do not fail. At once Rasputin became active. He went to Peterhof, where the Court was at that moment, and carried out Azef's desire.
She went to London next day, according to Azef's instructions, and as a French governess took a room in that quiet hotel near Victoria Station the room wherein she was afterwards found dead.
"The necktie of Stolypin," was Azef's playful allusion to the ever-ready gallows to which he, plotting with Rasputin, Manuiloff, Guerassimof, and others, was so constantly sending innocent persons. Truly, Russia was a strange country even before the outbreak of war.
The immediate object of Azef's activities, combined with Rasputin's, was at Germany's direction to extend the Terrorist action and thus cause trouble and unrest in the Empire.
He greeted us both warmly, and being a close friend of Rasputin, the monk took him into his cosy little den, where for over an hour they remained closeted together. I was one of the few who knew the secret of Azef's crimes. Indeed, when I entered the room while the pair were talking I heard him ask with a laugh: "What if we give him a taste of the necktie of Stolypin eh?"
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