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Updated: May 4, 2025
Rouchine had been a conjurer before he adopted a "holy" life, and by reason of his knowledge of magic and illusions he frequently assisted the Starets in performing those "miracles" that so astounded the mujiks who witnessed them with open mouths. Whenever things grew a little dull, or Rasputin believed that his divinity was being doubted, he would calmly announce: "I have had a vision.
On the evening of the following day I drove up to the monastery and there found Rasputin at dinner with the ex-conjurer Rouchine. When I entered the cosy little room in which the pair were seated, Rasputin had removed his long robe and was seated in his shirt-sleeves like the peasant he was. I handed him the letter from the German-born Empress, whereupon he said: "Oh! read it to me, Féodor.
So discreet too discreet, I often think." "One cannot be too discreet in the present international crisis," I remarked. "Enemy eyes and ears are open everywhere. One can never be too careful. Russia is full of the spies of Germany." "Quite true, Féodor quite true!" exclaimed Rasputin, smiling within himself. "Don't you agree, friend Rouchine?"
Two of those companions of his nightly drinking bouts at Perm were named Rouchine and Yepantchine, brawny fellows whose evil life was almost as notorious as Rasputin's.
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