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He had no knowledge of the fact that you had such a bitter and relentless enemy in the higher Court circle." "Nor had I. I wonder who it can be except, perhaps, Boyadko, with whom I once had some financial dealings over which we quarrelled." As a matter of fact, the unknown enemy only existed in Rasputin's fertile imagination.
I found the Minister of War was at Tsarskoe-Selo, and spoke to him there, giving him Rasputin's message, and receiving a reply that he would be with us at ten o'clock that night. I had to keep an appointment, at Rasputin's orders, with Protopopoff to deliver a letter and receive a reply; therefore I was not present when His Excellency the General arrived.
Naglovski, I found, was a youngish man, who, when I introduced him, appeared highly honoured to meet at Rasputin's table the Prime Minister of Russia, while the monk went out of his way to ingratiate himself with his enemy.
The old monk who answered my ring at the barred door returned with a message from Rasputin to the effect that I was to tell him the object of my visit. This I refused to do, and became insistent upon seeing him. Such hesitation on Rasputin's part greatly surprised me.
Before long he decided to make use of his mysterious power on a larger scale, and departed for St. Petersburg, where the news of his exploits had preceded him. The Tsarina, who suffered from insomnia, sent for him, and thanks also to certain qualities which it is best not to specify Rasputin's fortune was made in a day.
He organised the murders of the Minister of the Interior, Plehve, and of the Grand Duke Sergius. It was he who prepared the attempted murders of Admiral Dubassof, the Governor-General Guerchelman, and the attempt on Nicholas II. The latter was with Rasputin's knowledge and consent! Perhaps Alexandra Feodorovna knew of it. Who knows?
The idea, having originated in Rasputin's fertile brain, had been taken up with frantic haste, for each member of the "dark forces" had decided that "something must be done," and that the situation had become most perilous for them all.
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.
It was, indeed, this insensate act of folly on the part of the Tsar which had undermined the people's trust in their Emperor, and gave Rasputin's enemies and more especially Miliukoff opportunity for his bitter denunciation.
As we descended an attendant took Rasputin's staff, when instantly there came forward a lieutenant of Cossacks, a curiously crafty-looking fellow, who asked us if we desired to wash, or wished for a drink or for food. The fellow was repulsive, even to the charlatan himself. The latter gazed at him, and replied in his deep, serious tones: "I am here to see our Empress.
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