Rasputin the Rascal Monk: Disclosing the Secret Scandal of the Betrayal of Russia by the Mock-Monk Grichka and the Consequent Ruin of the Romanoffs. With official documents revealed and recorded for the first time.Le Queux, William
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Rasputin the Rascal Monk: Disclosing the Secret Scandal of the Betrayal of Russia by the Mock-Monk Grichka and the Consequent Ruin of the Romanoffs. With official documents revealed and recorded for the first time.
Le Queux, William
Rasputin, Grigorii Efimovich, 1869-1916; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Further amazing and incriminating letters are before me as I write, and
I shall print more of this secret correspondence in order that readers
in Great Britain may know the depths of Germany's villainy and the exact
methods by which Russia has been betrayed.
The official _dossier_ concerning the crimes and conspiracies of the
arch-scoundrel is astounding. It becomes increasingly amazing as one
turns over its voluminous pages, its confidential reports, its copies of
telegrams dispatched under fictitious names, since obtained from the
telegraph bureaux of Russia, and its originals of secret instructions
from Berlin.
In the latter one finds the subtle hand of the notorious Steinhauer, the
head of the Kaiser's spy-bureau, the fair-bearded, middle-aged Prussian
who accompanied the German Emperor to Buckingham Palace on his last
visit to London, and who was one of the select party of German motorists
who came to tour England with Prince Henry of Prussia at their head.
It devolved upon myself to accompany and watch that tour very closely.
Even then one department in Whitehall had not been chloroformed by the
dope of the Sleep-quietly-in-your-beds Party--a department in the
formation of which I had had some hand. Steinhauer I had met in
Germany, though he did not know me, and when he came to England with His
Imperial Highness, as Herr Eschenburg of Stuttgart, driving his big red
"Mercedes," I considered that it was high time to keep a strict eye upon
him--which I did. What I discovered of his movements and of his
associates has been of greatest advantage since the outbreak of war.
No more expert spy exists in all the world today than "Herr Eschenburg
of Stuttgart", whose real name is Steinhauer, known in the German Secret
Service as "Number Seventy."
The _dossier_ here placed at my disposal shows that Herr Steinhauer
visited Rasputin in Petrograd four times before August, 1914, while his
underlings arrived at the house in the Gorokhovaya many times after the
two Empires had come to grips.
Rasputin, in his unique position as autocrat aver the Autocrat, felt
himself the personal agent of the Kaiser, and as such seems to have
somewhat resented Steinhauer's rather arrogant orders. Indeed, he
complained bitterly to the German Emperor, who, in reply, propitiated
the Siberian peasant by explaining that he was so occupied by the
campaign against his enemies that he left all matters of detail to "our
trusted and loyal friend Steinhauer, whose actions and orders are as my
own."
On August 28th, 1916, there arrived in Petrograd a pretty dark-haired
young Dutch woman named Helene Geismann. She presented a letter of
introduction to Rasputin that evening at his house, and was promised
audience of Her Majesty the Empress at noon next day.
The monk was at Tsarskoe-Selo when the young woman called. It was a
meeting day of the higher, or Court Circle of the "sister-disciples,"
such seances being held at five o'clock each Friday afternoon.
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