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Updated: June 5, 2025
His Majesty gave him daily audiences, and sometimes, through Mademoiselle Zéneide Kamensky, the Empress's chief confidante, he had audience of Her Majesty. I met Stolypin often. His Excellency was a bluff but elegant bureaucrat, who had succeeded Count Witte, a man of refinement, belonging to a very old boyar family.
At the appointed hour, however, he entered the modest house Speranski owned in the Taurida Gardens. The other guests were Gervais, Magnitski, and Stolypin. While still in the anteroom Prince Andrew heard loud voices and a ringing staccato laugh a laugh such as one hears on the stage. Someone it sounded like Speranski was distinctly ejaculating ha-ha-ha.
Three days later His Majesty dismissed his Prime Minister, but gave him the title of Count. He had no son, therefore the distinction was a mere empty one. With this digression, for which I hope I may be pardoned, I will return to Stolypin.
Whatever he had to report to the Emperor was done quickly, without unnecessary comment, and the conference ended, they smoked together on terms of almost equality. I beg the reader's pardon if I here digress for a moment. After Stolypin we had a well-meaning statesman as Prime Minister in Kokovtsov, who endeavoured to follow the same lines as his master.
Stolypin, in ignorance of what was in progress, was of the party, I being left in Petrograd to follow three days later. On arrival at Kiev, where the Emperor had arranged to review the troops, a gala performance was held in the theatre that night.
Gervais gave a long account of an official revision, remarkable for the stupidity of everybody concerned. Stolypin, stuttering, broke into the conversation and began excitedly talking of the abuses that existed under the former order of things threatening to give a serious turn to the conversation. Magnitski starting quizzing Stolypin about his vehemence.
Opposite the Imperial box sat Stolypin, with two other high officials of the Court, when, during the entr'acte, a man dashed in, and in full view of the Emperor and Empress fired a revolver at the Prime Minister. The confusion this caused was terrible.
But to the world the truth which I here write will, I venture to believe, come as a great surprise. The cry "Land and Liberty" was being heard on every hand in the Empire. Peter Arkadievitch Stolypin, son of an aide-de-camp general of Alexander II., was in the zenith of his popularity.
But the Kaiser does not regard the Czar as the captain of Christianity. Far from it. What he supported in Stolypin was the necktie and nothing but the necktie: the gallows and not the cross. The Russian ruler did believe that the Orthodox Church was orthodox. The Austrian Archduke did really desire to make the Catholic Church catholic.
"Her Majesty told me that you would help me to to destroy Stolypin," she said with a fierce expression in her black eyes. Rasputin exchanged glances with the secret agent of Potsdam who, I knew, did so much dirty work on the Empress's behalf. "What Her Majesty desires, I am here to obey," was the monk's quiet response.
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