No more sinister or astounding figure has ever appeared in all history, and the memory of no one is more bitterly hated in Russia than that of Gregory the ne'er-do-well, the erotic scoundrel and assassin, who held the fate of the Russian Empire within the hollow of his hand. PRINTED BY CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, LA BELLE SAUVAGE, LONDON, E.C.4 450.818. Transcriber's Notes: Obvious punctuation errors have been corrected. Page 66, "off" changed to "of" Page 84, "camerilla" changed to "camarilla" Page 85, "Miliukof" changed to "Miliukoff" Page 89, "Geurassimof" changed to "Guerassimof" Page 105, "lght" changed to "light" Page 118, "Kirovchein" changed to "Krivochein" Page 134, "disicple" changed to "disciple" Page 149, "Vyruboya" changed to "Vyrubova" Page 221, "Purishkevich" changed to "Purishkevitch" Page 221, "denouncng" changed to "denouncing" End of Project Gutenberg's The Minister of Evil, by William Le Queux