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Updated: May 16, 2025
I then gave the monk the urgent message from the Empress. "Very well," he replied, "I will be back by Saturday; not because I obey the woman, but became I must see Kurloff, and I must take active steps against this Ivan Naglovski and his accursed friends." Half-an-hour later, when alone in the bare little room allotted to me, I took out the Empress's letter to the Starets and re-read it.
Having admitted the visitor to Rasputin's presence, I opened the small iron box which the Starets always carried in his supposed "pilgrimages," and took out the money, leaving in it a sum of about twelve thousand roubles. The ten thousand I carried to Rasputin, but as I opened the door I heard the fair-haired man say: "All is prepared. The wire is laid across the river.
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.
This Superior had been a disciple of the starets Ambrose, who was a disciple of Makarius, who was a disciple of the starets Leonid, who was a disciple of Paussy Velichkovsky. To this Abbot Kasatsky submitted himself as to his chosen director.
One or two things," replied the Starets, who ordered me to write at his dictation as follows: "MEMORANDUM. "Have acted upon your instructions regarding the Kahovsky affair. Some important correspondence was seized by the police at his arrest, and for two days matters looked extremely unpromising.
In accordance with the plan formed by Boris Stürmer I next day accompanied the Starets by rail direct to Nijni Novgorod, by way of Moscow, thence taking steamer down the great Volga, a twelve-hour journey, to that city where they make bells and ikons, Kazan. Rasputin had put on his oldest and most ragged monk's habit, and carried a staff.
Well," he went on, "the reason the Father has invited you here to-night is to come to terms with you. For a list of your friends a secret list that will be afterwards destroyed the Starets will pay you twenty thousand roubles, and, further, I will give you a diplomatic appointment in one of the embassies abroad wherever you desire." "What!" cried the young man.
In that great well-lit saloon, crowded by religious personages of all kinds, the old Dowager Countess Ignatieff, in stiff black silk, came forward to receive the popular Starets as the newest star in Russia's religious firmament.
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