Category: Biographies
The war has revealed many strange personalities in Europe, but surely none so sinister or so remarkable as that of the mock-monk Gregory Novikh--the middle-aged, uncleanly charlatan, now happily dead, whom Russia knew as Rasputin.
The small but all-powerful clique of which Rasputin was the head because he practically lived with the Imperial family and ate at their table-- the little circle which the Russi...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.Some pages of Rasputin's _dossier_ concern his intimate friendship with the Imperial family, and more especially with the Tsar's daughters, whom the Empress herself had placed b...
1. CHAPTER ONE.The war has revealed many strange personalities in Europe, but surely none so sinister or so remarkable as that of the mock-monk Gregory Novikh--the middle-aged, uncleanly charl...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.Rasputin, though revealing himself constantly as a blasphemous blackguard, had by the middle of 1916 become the greatest power in Russia. Through his good offices Germany hoped...
2. CHAPTER TWO.The mock-monk, much against his will, returned to the Winter Palace where the Court had gone for a few days and only because of the Divine call, as he pretended. He treated the...
9. CHAPTER NINE.Germany never plays straight, even with those who accept her gold to play the dangerous game of traitor. The few who know the ramifications of the underground politics of Europe...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE.The Grand Duke Nicholas Michailovitch had dared to seek audience of the Tsar, at which he had handed him a memorandum of protest. In this letter, which is still upon record, the...
10. CHAPTER TEN.Up till this juncture the penalty for even mentioning the name of Rasputin was imprisonment. The censorship, controlled by his catspaw Protopopoff, took care to adopt the most d...
6. CHAPTER SIX.Now that Rasputin's amazing career is being here investigated, chapter by chapter, the facts disclosed seem almost incredible, but, of course, such a situation could only have o...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.As a result of the denunciation in the Duma of "Russia's dark forces," Boris Sturmer was deprived of the Premiership and appointed by the Tsaritza's influence to a high office i...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.Documentary evidence contained in the papers which the monk so carefully preserved shows conclusively that he paid a secret visit to Berlin in the first week of October, 1916. W...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.In my work of unmasking Rasputin I find that constant secret communications were at that time passing between the "holy" scoundrel and his infamous paymasters in the Koniggratze...