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Updated: June 22, 2025
"His time is no doubt fully occupied with constant devotion," remarked Anna Vyrubova in excuse. "The Father is much occupied, Your Majesty," I said. "Tell him for me that I am daily longing for his return," she said. "But wait. I will write to him and you shall convey the letter," at which order I bowed. "The Father is much troubled and perturbed," I remarked. "About what?" asked Her Majesty.
"Sometimes she is in anger, at others in despair. Anna Vyrubova is frantic. Why do you not come to audience?" "She promised that I should see Nicholas," was the reply. "After I have spoken with him I will see her. It does a woman good to wait." "I agree, but your refusal may be stretched too far," said the Bishop. "None will tell the truth concerning her," Rasputin said.
Then rising and going across to a beautiful buhl escritoire, she added: "I will write to him. I sent him another letter by messenger only yesterday eight letters, and not a line of response!" For ten minutes or so, while the Empress sat writing, I chatted with Madame Vyrubova, and gave to her news of the monk.
Late that night I went back to the palace, where I found Madame Vyrubova much perturbed. "It is strange, Féodor!" she exclaimed. "He never leaves Petrograd without first informing me." I set her mind at rest by suggesting that, as affairs were so critical, he was probably with Stürmer and Protopopoff plotting further manoeuvres.
At six o'clock Anna Vyrubova entered the room, where I sat writing some letters, and inquired for the monk. "He was here a quarter of an hour ago," I replied. "Then find him at once and give him this. It is most urgent," said the high-priestess of the cult of the "sister-disciples," handing me a sealed envelope.
Next day we were called to the palace, for the Empress was sorely worried over the health of the Tsarevitch, and she implored the holy Father to pray for him, little dreaming that the ever-recurring attacks were due to the subtle poison administered in secret by her most trusted favourite, Madame Vyrubova.
Do you happen to know if there is any truth in this rumour?" "Yes, Father, I do," was madame's instant reply. "I warned you of him three weeks ago, but you did not heed. I also told Anna Vyrubova, but her reply was that you, being divine, would be perfectly able to take care of yourself." "So I am.
The result was that not only did Rasputin obtain possession of the concession for Otchakov, but he sold it a month later for a huge sum to a syndicate of bankers in Vienna, who still hold it. The monk, after paying a dole to the ex-agent of police, divided up the spoils with Protopopoff, Stürmer and Soukhomlinoff, and, in addition, he bought a very valuable diamond necklace for Anna Vyrubova.
"Of course I shall not," remarked Rasputin, with that crafty grin of his. "She would only worry over it and just now she is greatly troubled over the Tsarevitch. He has had another attack." The monk did not mention the fact that the cause of the attack was one of Badmayev's secret drugs which Anna Vyrubova had dissolved in his milk!
Anna Vyrubova was away in Moscow, but without delay he sought the Empress and remained in her boudoir for a full hour, no doubt explaining the discovery of Kokovtsov's inquiries in Berlin.
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