Transcriber’s Note: Italic text is enclosed in _underscores._ RASPUTIN AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION [Illustration: _Photo by Paul Thompson_ GREGORY RASPUTIN “The Black Monk of Russia”] RASPUTIN AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION BY PRINCESS CATHERINE RADZIWILL (COUNT PAUL VASSILI) AUTHOR OF “BEHIND THE VEIL AT THE RUSSIAN COURT,” “GERMANY UNDER THREE EMPERORS,” ETC. ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD MCMXVIII COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY JOHN LANE COMPANY Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company New York, U. S. A. TO MONSIEUR JEAN FINOT _Editor of the “Revue”_ _My dear Mr. Finot:_-- _Allow me to offer you this little book, which may remind you of the many conversations we have had together, and of the many letters which we have exchanged. In doing so, I am fulfilling one of the pleasantest of duties and trying to express to you all the gratitude which I feel towards you. Without your kind help, and without your advice, I would never have had the courage to take a pen in my hand, and all the small success I may have had in my literary career is entirely due to you, and to the constant encouragement which you have always given to me, and which I shall never forget, just as I shall always remember that it was in the “Revue” that the first article I ever published appeared. Permit me to-day to thank you from the bottom of my heart, and believe me to be,_ _Always yours most affectionately, Catherine Radziwill (Catherine Kolb-Danvin)_ PUBLISHERS FOREWORD