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"Because I know from my friend Venikoff, one of the assistant-directors of Secret Police, that the man, a discharged agent-provocateur and incensed at the way he has been treated by Stolypin, has joined forces with some mysterious young woman named Baltz. There is a whisper that between them they are engineering a plot to assassinate the Prime Minister!" Rasputin's strange eyes met mine.
Among those who attacked him and accused him of being an agent-provocateur were Tseretelli, the Socialist-Revolutionist, and Miliukov, the leader of the Cadets. Some years later, at the time of the uprisings in connection with the Young Turk movement, "Parvus" turned up in Constantinople, where he was presumably engaged in work for the German Government.
If he does not do so, then do not give him the letter." That afternoon I left for Vilna by the Warsaw express, and after a long journey through the endless pines and silver birches duly arrived at the hotel indicated, and there awaited my visitor. He arrived next day, a fair-haired, slim man, just as Rasputin had described him, evidently an agent-provocateur from Berlin.
"It certainly would be best, my dear Evno," the monk agreed. "That is if you think the accusation can be well made." "Trust me," laughed the great agent-provocateur. "A denunciation, the discovery of papers you have those of Buchman in your safe, by the way, and they could be used arrest, trial, and the necktie! It would be quite easy, and his mouth would be closed."
Still more perplexing than the use of force by the revolutionists is the employment of the agent-provocateur on the part of the Russian government.
A far more serious outbreak at Manchester seems to have been clumsily planned soon afterwards, but it ended in nothing, and the enemies of the government freely attributed this and other projects of mob violence to the instigation of an agent-provocateur, well known as "Oliver the Spy". This man was also credited with the authorship of "the Derbyshire insurrection," for which three men were executed and many others transported.
That is why one was never sure that the stranger who denounced Rasputin and his friends was not an agent-provocateur. Every Russian subject of any note, and every foreign traveller, was watched, not because of his disloyalty, but because Rasputin and his camarilla, including the Empress, feared lest he should discover how they were daily betraying Russia and its Tsar.
Back we went to Petrograd, where we called at Protopopoff's house, and where still another attempt against Miliukoff's life was plotted. By telephone an ex-agent of Secret Police named Stefanovitch, who had done much work as an agent-provocateur for the camarilla, was called, and a price was at once arranged for the murder of the Deputy.
And yet so clever was he as an agent-provocateur that he actually managed to get himself elected as director of the Terrorist organisation of Petrograd, and as a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Party! In my presence he one night, when in his cups, boasted to the merry monk what he had to his credit as a revolutionary.
Both of us knew more than this struggling sycophant. "Bagrov?" the saint repeated. "Who is he?" "Oh! A fellow who was assistant to Azeff in some disgraceful matters in Warsaw an agent-provocateur who lived afterwards for some time in Paris and on the Riviera. He attributes his downfall to Stolypin, and hence is most bitter against him.
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