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Updated: June 9, 2025
To achieve his purpose, Stürmer needs an audience with the Tsar, and he must have it. Alexandra Feodorovna seems to be failing us, for Nicholas has hidden himself, hoping that the storm will blow over." Stürmer strained every effort to obtain audience with the Emperor, but he was elusive, and for days no one knew where he was.
And so, my dear young lady," he continued laughingly, addressing himself to Feodorovna, "we three respectable and responsible Englishmen to say nothing of our amiable friend, the professor, there are about to become abductors and pirates, on behalf of your father since there seems to be no help for it.
And a few moments later he was speaking with the Emperor, urging that an order to the Censor be immediately issued a suggestion that was at once carried out. Meanwhile a dramatic scene was being enacted in the Empress's boudoir, for that day proved the beginning of the end of the holy Father's career, as well as that of Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia.
It had been sent from Bakhtchisaray, the Oriental town in the Crimea, where Alexandra Feodorovna had gone to visit the military hospitals, it being necessary for her to pose before Russia as sympathetic to the wounded.
No doubt Paula knew who "Krivochein" was. And it was certain also that both von Wedel and the German Foreign Secretary were privy to the plot. Apparently the Empress had been informed of the danger, and knew of the steps the conspirators were taking. Indeed, Rasputin declared: "Alexandra Feodorovna is very anxious as to the future.
I have confessed it to the priest, who is bound to forget the words uttered only before God. Allow Natacha Feodorovna her own way, Sire! And her father, your servant, whose life is so dear to you, is saved. At the natural death of the general his fortune will go to his daughter, who has disposed of it." Rouletabille stopped a moment to judge of the effect produced. It was not good.
Know, then, that there has been a mysterious exchange of letters between Natacha Feodorovna and the Central Revolutionary Committee, and that these letters show the daughter of General Trebassof to be in perfect accord with the assassins of her father for the execution of their abominable project." "The death of the general?" "I declare to Your Majesty that that is not possible." "Obstinate man!
Koupriane was completely disconcerted. Suddenly the Emperor appeared. He was in a state of exaltation such as had never been known in him. Koupriane, dismayed, drew back. "Monsieur," said the Tsar to him, "I require that Natacha Feodorovna be here within the next two hours, and that she be conducted with the honors due to her rank. Natacha is innocent, and we must make reparation to her."
"Be careful, monsieur. I inform you that I have studied this affair personally and very closely. You have the proofs of these statements you advance?" "Yes, Sire." "And I, I have the proofs that Natacha Feodorovna is a renegade." At this contradiction, uttered in a firm voice, the Emperor stirred, a flush of anger and of outraged majesty in his face.
"Oh yes," answered Feodorovna, "he would be sure to know everything. But I do not see how that fact is to help us; because, you see, dear friend, we have no power to compel him to reveal what he knows." "Have we not?" retorted the professor, good-humouredly. "Ah, well, we shall see; we shall see!
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