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Abalak. See Znamensky Monastery investigations of Rasputin, 59–60, 64–65 Adrianov, Alexander (police officer), 139, 140 leadership of Church and, 78, 82 Alexander II (, 1855–1881), 31–32 letters to and from, 94–95, 144 Alexander III (tsar, 1881–1894), 27, 29, 32, Maria Rasputin on, 233 34, 75, 198 marriage of, 34–35, 36 Alexander Michaelovich (“Sano,” Nicholas mastery of foreign languages, 34–35 II’s cousin), 32, 38, 104, 198, 216, 230 meets Rasputin, 39, 41 Alexander Nevsky Monastery, 26, 27, patriotism, 146 172–173 personality of, 34, 60 Alexander Palace, 34, 41–42, 57, 58, 93, petitions from Rasputin, 137 109, 111, 148 popular support, 109 Alexandra Fedorovna (empress of , Protopopov and, 180, 182 1894–1917) opposes war in 1914, 118–119, 127 accepting of homosexuals, 173, 174 and Rasputin’s drinking, 187 aware of Rasputin’s faults, 45, 63–65 reactions to criticism, 60, 61, 62–64, 93 Alexis (son) and, 98–100, 100, 104 relationship with Rasputin, 48, 60, 65, 133 Anna (friend) and, 133, 159–160, 208 religious outlook, 35, 38, 43, 65, 105–106 on autocracy, 155–156 Rasputin’s son Dmitry and, 191 birth of son, 37 on Samarin, 168 burial of Rasputin and, 222–223 shares military secrets, 151 cartoon depictions of, 192, 193 sister Elizabeth and, 198, 204–205 children of, 35, 37, 150 Spala episode, 97–101 on death of Rasputin, 223–224 Stolypin and, 89 on disappearance of Rasputin, 216 strong character, 156 early life, 33–34 suspected of German sympathies, 146 faith in Rasputin, 150–151, 156–157, 224 telegrams, 119, 120, 127 favors Khvostov’sCOPYRIGHTED appointment, Varnava MATERIAL and, 79 159–160, 163 Volzhin and, 171, 175 favors new type of church leaders, 78, Vyrubova and, 46 79, 169 during war with Germany, 136, 144, 147, financial support of Rasputin, 73–74, 148, 149, 151–152, 153, 156 109, 118, 137 Yusupov on, 201–202 friendship with Rasputin, 41 See also Duma Iliodor and, 69 Alexeev, Michael (general), 147, 148 influence of Rasputin, 70–71, 138–139, Alexis (bishop of Tobolsk, exarch of 147–148, 156, 180 Georgia), 80, 81

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Alexis (Nicholas II’s son, the tsarevich) Vyrubova on, 47 birth of, 37 during World War I, 186 on death of Rasputin, 223 Arsenov, Ilya, 18 fall in boat, 97 assets of Rasputin, 50, 233–234 hemophilia of, 37, 38, 43, 58, 61, 102, attacks on Rasputin 111, 150 appearance after, 131 illnesses of, 97–99 beating in Pokrovskoye, 13 prayers for health of, 41 in 1914, 119–122, 123–126, 128 and Rasputin, 104 during the war, 193–194 recovery of, 100–102 See also death of Rasputin reviewing troops, 149 Augustine (Saint), 56 at Spala, 97–101, 100 Austria-Hungary, 113, 152–153 at Stavka, 150 autocracy, 32–33, 91, 155–156 Alice (Alexandra’s mother), 38 autopsy, 218–221, 225, 229 Alley, Stephen (British agent), 227–228, auto-suggestion and hemophilia, 103–104 229, 230 Anastasia of Montenegro (“Stana”), Badmaev, Dr. Peter (ally of Rasputin’s), 29–30, 40 103, 111, 137, 179–180, 236 Feofan and, 61 Balashevskaya Convent, 71, 72, 83, 126 introduction of imperial couple to Balkans, 113–115, 117, 119 Rasputin, 39–40, 42 Baptists and Evangelical Christians, 19, 137 Nazier-Vachot and, 36 Baranovichi, 143–144 rumors about, 52 Barbarin, Yakov, 19 support for Rasputin, 50, 59 Barham, Patte (writer), 226 warnings to Alexandra by, 62 Beatrice (Victoria’s daughter), 38 ancestors of Rasputin, 5–6 Beletsky, Stephen Andrew (bishop of Kazan), 26, 27 Andronikov and, 158–159 Andronikov, Michael, 158–161, as assistant minister of interior, 141 163–164, 165, 236 execution of, 236 Anthony (archbishop of Kharkov), 174 as Khvostov ally, 160–161, 163–164, 165 Anthony (archbishop of Volhynia), 79, 80 as police director, 108, 158–159, 166, 190 Anthony (bishop of Tobolsk), 52–53, turns against Rasputin, 177 54–55, 62 and Yar episode, 139 Anthony (metropolitan of St. Petersburg), 62 Berlatskaya, Khioniya (Rasputin’s follower), anti-German riots (Moscow), 139, 199 46, 49, 61, 62 anti-Semitic organizations, 67–68, 89 Bialowieza, 97 appearance of Rasputin Black Hand, 118, 119 after attack of 1914, 131, 132 Black Hundreds, 67–68 at autopsy, 220–221 blood-stilling, 105 clothing, 30, 71, 94, 118, 192, 204, “Bloody Sunday,” 33 208–209 Bokhanov, Alexander (historian), 10, 200, 239 eyes, 11, 24, 29, 42, 44, 47, 90, 204, 211 Botkin, Dr. Eugene, 98 Filippov on, 188 bribes, 110, 137, 161 his last pilgrimage, 191–192 British Secret Intelligence Service, 200, at Kazan and St. Petersburg (1903), 226–231 23–24, 28 Brusilov Offensive, 152–153 in 1915, 160 Buchanan, George, 227, 229 in 1916, 204 Buxhoeveden, Sophie, 104, 105 scar, 13 at seventeen, 11 canonization, 168–170 upon discovery of body, 217, 218 cartoons, 192, 193

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Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, 99, Dmitry (Rasputin’s cousin), 10 107, 205 Dobrovolsky, Ivan, 137 Catherine the Great (empress, 1762–1796), Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 9, 23 35, 68, 197 Dubrovino, town, 12, 54 Chemagin, Fedor (village priest and Duma, 33, 69, 84, 107, 152, 193 Rasputin foe), 52, 53–54, 120 Fourth Duma, 178, 180, 181, 193 Chesmensky Charity Hospital, 218 Goremykin and, 161–162 church investigation of 1907, 52–55 Holy Synod and, 80, 93 Church of Our Lady of Pokrovskoye, Nicholas II and, 91, 155–156, 4, 5, 7 Protopopov in, 178–179, 180 Beautification by Rasputin, 51–52, 55 role of, 155–156 cinema, 137, 193 Rasputin’s telegram leaked to, 129 Cockfield, Jamie (historian), 200 Rasputin urges Nicholas to improve coincidence in treating hemophilia, 104–105 relations with, 161–163 Compton, William, 227, 230 Third Duma, 33, 91, 178 Constantinople, 74 Trepov and, 181, 182 Cook, Andrew (writer), 226, 229, 230 Dzhunkovsky, Vladimir, 139, 141, 158–159 cross-dressing, 198 Cullen, Richard (writer), 226, 229 Efimov, Flor, 212 Elizabeth Fedorovna (Alexandra’s sister), Damansky, Peter, 79, 92 146, 198, 204–205 Daniel Filippovich (religious leader), 19 Ernst Ludwig (“Ernie,” Alexandra’s “Dark Forces,” 181, 193, 203, 227–228 brother, 146, 156 Davidson, Benjamin, 125 Evlogii (bishop), 93 death of Rasputin assassination, 209–213 faith of Rasputin autopsy, 218–221, 225, 229 behavior in church, 17 burial, 222–223 conversion, 17 consequences, 237–240 disillusionment with church, 55–56 cremation, 239–240 doubts and trials, 13–14, 21 desecration of burial site, 238–239 early years, 9 discovery of body, 1, 217, 217–218 Makary’s influence on, 15–17 legends, 225–231 nature lover, 15 plot, 201–204, 205, 208 religious studies, 56 punishment of conspirators, 223 spiritual crisis, 112, 113, 185 reburial, 239 spiritual gifts, 10–11, 13–14, 16–17 Dedyulin, Vladimir (palace commandant), vision of Virgin Mary, 20–21, 74 57, 58 See also pilgrimages Dehn, Lili (Alexandra’s friend), 64–65, Fedorov, Dr. Sergei, 37, 98, 99, 104, 222 101–102, 150 Deniken, General Anton, 167 Feofan (Rasputin’s friend, subsequent Derfelden, Mariana, 226 enemy) Diveev convent, 60 accusation of rape brought to, 61 Dmitry Pavlovich on Rasputin’s house in Pokrovskoye, 50 death of, 236 imperial couple and, 35 as murderer, 226 investigation by, 59–60 punishment, 223 with Makary and Rasputin, 28 relationship with Yusupov, 202 relationship with Rasputin, 28–29, 30, 61 report on Rasputin shown to, 141 transfer to , 62 role in assassination, 203, 205, 210–211, Figes, Orlando (writer), 200 215, 216 Filaret (father superior), 173

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Filippov, Alexis (Rasputin’s friend and handwriting of Rasputin, 18 publisher), 73, 74, 109–110, 112, 140, healing 188, 193 of Alexis, 101–105, 111 financial status of Rasputin, 50, 109–110, and Yusupov, 204 135, 137–138, 233–234 health of Rasputin, 131, 132 Florinsky, Michael (historian), 177 hemophilia, 37–38, 58 followers of Rasputin’s Alexis and, 37, 38, 43, 58, 61, 102, 150 financial support from, 50, 109–110 Alexis’s worst attack at Spala, his “little ladies,” 49, 53 97–101, 100 in Pokrovskoye, 18–19 Rasputin’s “secret?” 101–106 in , 45–48 heresy, charges of, 52–55, 80 at tea in Rasputin’s apartment, 164 Hermogen (bishop), 69, 83–84 Franz Ferdinand, assassination of, 118 Hoare, Samuel, 207, 218, 226–227, 229 Freemasons, 68 assesses Rasputin’s murder, 237 Holy Fools, 64–65 Gavril (father superior), 25–26 Holy Land, Rasputin’s pilgrimage to, Germany 73–75 agents of, 145–146, 181 Holy Synod, 77, 85, 158, 167–171, Alexandra during the war, 144, 147, 148, 174–176 149, 151–152, 153, 156 Alexis (exarch) and, 81–82 declaration of war by, 129 canonizations and, 168–169 Nicholas II during war with, Hermogen and, 83 148–152, 155 Nicholas II and, 169–170, 172–173, 176 Rasputin urges peace with, 151, 152, Rasputin’s power at, 81–82, 167–171, 153, 226 174–176 separate peace with, 226–227 Varnava and, 79, 80 war with, 131, 143, 151–152, 181 homosexuality, 22, 111, 114, 158, 171–172, Gibbes, Charles Sydney (tutor), 103 173–174, 197–198 Gilliard, Pierre (tutorat), 98–99, 104, horse theft charges, 13, 14, 168, 193 150, 151 hypnosis, 58, 102–103, 107, 112, 204 Gippius, Zinaida, 237 Golovina, Munya, 215 Iliodor (monk) Gordon, N. A., 137 Feofan and Rasputin, 29 Goremykin, Prime Minister Ivan, 148, in hiding, 85 149, 157, involvement in attack of June 1914, Rasputin decides he must go, 121–125 161–162, 170 Khvostov and, 165 Gorky, Maxim, 237 later life, 236 Great Petrovsky Bridge, 1, 213, 217 Nicholas II and, 71 Greece, 151 political career, 67–73 Gregory of Nyssa (Saint), 7, 56 relationship with Rasputin, 28, 67–73, Guchkov, Alexander (political leader), 91, 82–84, 121–122 92, 93, 94 and theft of letters in 1909, 94, 121 guilt, Rasputin’s use as a weapon, 43, 44 Tsaritsyn compound, 67–70 Gurdjieff, George, 111 turns against Rasputin, 121–122 Guriysky, Antony, 173 illiteracy Guseva, Khioniya (would-be assassin), of Rasputin, 9, 17–18, 18 119–127, 124 in Russia, 33, 123 Gypsies, 112, 138–139, 210 in Siberia, 9 Gyulling, Arthur (German agent), Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, 73 145, 146 Innocent of Irkutsk (archbishop), 174

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internal affairs, ministry of, 159 Kotsiubinskii, Alexander (historian), 200 Iran, 223 Kremlin (Moscow), 108–109 Irene of Prussia (Alexandra’s sister), 38, 98 Kryzhanovsky, Sergei, 177 Irina, wife of Prince Yusupov, 198, 199, Kulnev, S. Ya. (medical authority), 122–123 208, 216 Kurlov, Paul, 58, 59, 179–180 Investigatory Commission of the Kuznetsov, Alexis, author of Russian Saints Provisional Government into Crimes Who Were Holy Fools, 64–65 of the Tsarist Regime, 17, 45 Isidor (bishop), 173–174 Laptinskaya, Akilina (Rasputin follower), 45–46, 49, 110, 121, 134, 138, 222 Jews, 67–68, 135, 171, 178 Lazovert, Dr. Stanislaw (member of the Rasputin’s friendliness toward, 135, 138, plot against Rasputin), 203, 208, 209, 140, 172 211, 213, 221, 223, 231, 236 John Maximovich scandal, 168–170, spurious account of the assassination, 209 174, 176 League of St. Michael the Archangel, John of Kronstadt, 27, 75, 80 67–68 Leopold (Victoria’s son), 38 Kadet party, 93 letters Karalli, Vera, 226 from empress and children, 94–95 Karlova, 64 threats against Rasputin, 194 Kartavtsev, V. I., 13 literacy Katkov, George (historian), 103 Rasputin and, 9, 17–18, 18 Kazan, 23–26, 99, 107 in Russia and Siberia, 9, 33 Kerensky, Alexander (political leader), 127, “little ladies,” 45–48, 49, 53 129, 239 Little Neva River, 205, 213 Khlysty (heretical sect), 19–20, 26, Lockhart, R. H. Bruce, 139, 168 53–55, 91 Lokhtina, Olga (Rasputin follower), 45, Khvostov, Alexander (imperial minister), 46, 49 88, 157, 162, 178 Khvostov, Alexis (imperial minister) Makarov, Alexander, 90, 95, 136, 178 Alexandra and, 159–160 Makary (monk), 15–17, 22, 28 Andronikov and, 158 Maklakov, Vasily, 200, 201–202, 208, 212 Rasputin opposes him in 1911, 88–90, Mandryka, Alexander, 67, 71–72 141, 160 Manshtedt, Zinaida (Rasputin follower), execution of, 236 49, 189 Nicholas II and, 88, 160, 166 Maria Fedorovna (Nicholas II’s mother), Rasputin advances his career in 1915, 32, 34, 101, 104, 164, 230 159–160 Maria (mother superior, Rasputin ally), 71 replacement for, 177 Marie, Queen of Romania, 34 as Troika member, 159–161, 163–165 , 198 turns against Rasputin, 165–166 Massenet, Jules, 178 Volzhin and, 171 Massie, Robert K. (historian), 182 Kiev, 74, 88–89 Maximovich, John, 168–169, 174 Kokovtsov, Vladimir (imperial minister), Melchizedek (bishop), 173, 174 87–88, 89–91, 95, 108, 157 Meshchersky, Vladimir, 111 Kolyaba, Dmitry, 84 MI6, 230–231 Kommisarov, Michael, 165, 187 Militsa of Montenegro, 29–30, 40 Korchakov family, 18 Feofan and, 61 Kosorotov, Dmitry (autopsy surgeon), 218, financial supporter of Rasputin’s, 49, 50 219–222, 225, 229 introduction of imperial couple and Kostroma, 108 Rasputin, 39–40, 42

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Militsa of Montenegro (continued) on death of Rasputin, 216–217, 219 Nazier-Vachot and, 36 on Rasputin’s cremation, 239–240 rumors about, 52 Rasputin considers financing a Vyrubova and, 47 newspaper, 110 warnings to Alexandra, 62 Nicholas I (tsar, 1825–1855), 24 Milyukov, Paul (political leader), Nicholas II (tsar, 1894–1917) 93–94, 193 abdication of, 224 “Ministerial Leapfrog,” 177–178 Alexandra’s advice, 157 ministers oppose Nicholas assuming Alexis (son) and, 37, 97, 98 command, 148–149 assumes command, 143–144, 146–147 ministry of public confidence, 155, 163, aware of Rasputin’s faults, 45, 63–65 181–182, 194 burial of Rasputin, 222, 223 ministry of the interior, 181 cartoon depiction of, 192, 193 miracles childhood of, 32 Rasputin’s first, 10 children of, 35, 37, 150 Rasputin’s healings, 106 committed to autocracy, 32–33, 141 Russian Orthodox Church and, 21, 105 conduct of war, 146–147 Mogilev, 150 death of his father, 31–32 (Yusupov’s residence), 197, declaration of war by, 129–130 203, 204, 205, 208, 209–212, 213, 237 Duma and, 91, 163 Molchanov, Leonid (Rasputin’s friend), faith of, 32–33, 35, 105–106 80, 117 favors new type of church leaders, 78, 79, Molière, 99 82, 169, 172 “Monsieur Philippe,” 35–36, 39 and English language, 34 Montenegrin sisters, 39, 61 Holy Synod and, 169–170, 172–173, 176 See also Anastasia and Militsa hunting, 97 Moscow, 108–109, 138–141, 159, 170, 199 Iliodor and, 68–69, 71, 82 Mosolov, Alexander, 101–102, 182 influence of Rasputin, 41, 60–62, 70–73, Mount Athos, 21–22, 114 105–106, 111, 117–118, 180 Mudrolyubov, Peter (Rasputin involves Rasputin in state affairs, 87, 88 supporter), 171 Khvostov and, 88, 90, 160, 161, 166 Muslims, 113, 114, 172 Kokovtsov and, 89–91 Myasoedov, Sergei, 145 letters to and from, 95, 144 mystics/mysticism, 16, 29, 111 Mandryka’s investigation, 72 My Thoughts and Meditations (Rasputin’s marriage of, 34–35, 36 book), 73–75 meets Rasputin, 39, 41 opposition to, 170 name “Rasputin,” 2, 6, 42–43 personality of, 32 Naryshkina-Kurakina, Elizabeth, 42, 43 petition from his family, 223 Naumov, Alexander, 178 petitions from Rasputin, 137 Nazier-Vachot, Philippe, 35–36, 39 photographs and, 73 Nelipa, Margarita (historian), 123, 200, 219 Pitirim and, 172 newspapers problem solving by, 157–158, 176 and attack of June 1914, 122–123, Protopopov and, 180, 181–182 125–126 Rasputin’s disappearance and, 216 campaign of 1910, 62 reaction to accusations, 62–64, 93, 110 critical of Rasputin, 91–92, 110, 168, religious outlook, 35 176, 181, 193 reunion with Rasputin in 1914, 132–133 interviews on war, 114, 115 reviewing troops, 149 investigations of Rasputin by, 62 Rodzyanko and, 92–93 Khvostov scandal, 165 Samarin and, 168

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Stolypin and, 87, 88–89 personality of Rasputin Sturmer and, 163, 181 beatings and, 13–14 as supreme commander, 148–152, 155 boastful, 70–71, 94, 138–139 telegrams to, 127, 129 boldness, 24 tercentenary of Romanov rule direct approach to scandal, 73, 84 (1913), 107 divergent and contrasting strains in, 12 as tsar, 33 in early years, 10 on tsar’s place in wartime, 143–144 fomenting controversy, 79, 80 Varnava and, 79 fun-loving, 25 view of Rasputin, 58, 59, 60–61 generosity, 50, 110 visits to army headquarters, 143–144 guilt, used as weapon, 43, 44 Nicholas Michaelovich (Nicholas II’s intimidation and emotional blackmail, 82 cousin), 200–201, 216, 227, 230 overview, 1, 240 Nicholas Nicholaevich (“Nicholasha,” playing double games, 71, 72 Nicholas II’s cousin), 52, 59, 129, 141, recklessness, 62–63 143, 146–149 resigned courage, 207–208 “Nicky-Sunny” Correspondence, 144 sympathy for dissenters and notes to help petitioners, 135–137 marginalized people, 172 Novoselov, Michael, 62, 91 Peter Nicholaevich (Nicholas II’s cousin), 29 October Manifesto, 33 Peter the Great (emperor, 1689–1725), Octobrist party, 91, 178 26, 77 See also Guchkov, Alexander; Rodzyanko, petitions and petitioners, 134–137, 185, 187 Michael Petrograd Okhrana (secret police), 57, 59, 103, crisis of March 1917, 152, 181, 207 134, 139 naming of, 131 See also police (civil) metropolitans of, 82, 172–173 Old Believers, 19 Rasputin’s apartments in, 133–134, 237 Olga (Nicholas II’s sister), 43, 63, 104 reaction to Rasputin’s death, 216 assesses Rasputin’s murder 237 See also Saint Petersburg meets Rasputin, 45 photographs, 7 Orlov, Vladimir, 95 incriminating, 72–73 Osipenko, Ivan, 173 pilgrimages Ostrogorsky, Dr. Sergei, 102 to Abalak Monastery, 12, 55 Ostroumov, Peter (village priest, Rasputin to Holy Land, 73–75 foe), 23, 52, 55, 59, 120 to Mount Athos, Greece, 21–22 to Verkhoturye, 14, 15, 191–192 Paléologue, Maurice (French ambassador Pitirim (metropolitan of Saint Petersburg), and historian), 140, 141, 174 162, 171–173, 175, 222 Palladi (bishop), 174 plots to kill Rasputin, 165 Papandato, Gerasim, 103, 112 See also Guseva, Khioniya; Yusupov, Felix “Peach” (prostitute), 189 poison peasants Maklakov and, 202 and abolition of serfdom, 88 Rasputin’s reaction to, 209–210 Iliodor and, 68 use of, 208, 225–226 reaction to Rasputin’s death, 218 Pokrovskoye, town in Siberia Siberian peasants proud, 23 eighteenth-century map of, 5 as symbol of Russia, 24 generosity to, 50 war and, 113–114 history of, 4–5 Pecherkin sisters, 18, 72, 134 home in, 30, 49–50, 60, 234, 235, 237, Perren, Carl, 145–146 237–238

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Pokrovskoye, town in Siberia (continued) Raspopov, Nicholas (Rasputin follower), hostility and suspicion in, 22, 51 18 museum in, 237–238 Rasputin, Anna (mother), 6–9, 49 Rasputin’s followers in, 18–19 Rasputin, Dmitry (son), 13, 190–191, return after conversion, 17 234, 235 return visits to, 9, 30, 49 Rasputin, Efim (father), 6–7, 9, 14, 21, 49, sexual behavior with women in, 11, 117, 164, 190 22–23 Rasputin, Gregory Poland/Poles, 87, 97–99, 178 advice on supplying cities, 151–152 police (civil) and alcohol, 11, 13, 112–113, 165, 185, disappearance of Rasputin and, 215–216 186, 207 investigation of assassination by, 212, 217 ally of Khvostov, 159–169, 177 involved in attack of June 1914, 125 arrogance, 51 monitors Rasputin’s mail, 129 attacked in 1914, 119–122 plot against Rasputin and, 125 autopsy, 218–221, 225, 229 reports, 50–51, 186 becoming Rasputin-Novyi, 42–43 in service to Rasputin, 174 behavior during Liturgy, 54 investigation of Rasputin’s murder, 212 birth of, 3, 7 sketch of “Crime of June 29, 1914,” 128 burial, 222–223 surveillance of Rasputin by, 50–51, children of, 12–13, 134 57–58, 134, 188, 208 church investigation of 1907, 53–55 See also Okhrana discovery and fate of his body, 1, 217, police director, 158 217–218, 238–239 political crises, 162, 166, 170, 176 and Duma, 161–162 Polivanov, Alexis, 148, 152, 157, 178 early life of, 8–11, 13 Pounder, Derrick, 229 eating, 186 predictions of Rasputin education of, 7–8, 9, 17–18, 18 about bishops he met in 1903, 27 encourages Nicholas to assume about Nicholas II, 224 command, 146–148 about recovery of Alexis, 99–100, 103 expresses need to resist temptation, at Kiev celebration, 88 22–23, 56, 62, 189–190 of his own death, 194, 195 favors new type of church leaders, 78 Prilezhaeva, Natalya, 171 final pilgrimage, 191–192 prostitutes, 188–190 financial status of, 50, 109–110, 118, 135, Protopopov, Alexander (imperial minister), 137–138, 233–234 47, 178–182, 179, 207, 222, 233, 236 first healing of Alexis, 41–42 Pugachev, 68 followers of, 18–19, 52–53 Purishkevich, Vladimir (Rasputin’s generosity, 50 principal assassin) healing gifts, 43–44, 99–105, 111, 204 account of the assassination, 209–213 health of, 131, 132 death of, 236 heresy charges against, 52–55, 80 Sir Samuel Hoare and, 207, 227 his notes, 135 hospital train of, 216 horse thief (charges), 14, 168, 193 popularity of, 223 and hypnosis, 58, 103–104, 112 possible British involvement, 231 influence with , role in assassination, 203, 210–211 117–118, 170 Putin, Vladimir, 231 legends concerning, 1–2, 7, 225–231 Putyatin (prince), 42 marriage of, 12 meets Nicholas and Alexandra, 39, 41 Radzinsky, Edvard (writer), 123, 188, military advice, 151 189, 226 My Thoughts and Meditations, 73–75 Raev, Nicholas, 175–176 myths concerning his death, 225–226

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new house and furnishings, 49–50, 109, Rasputin, Praskovaya (wife) 238 after death of Rasputin, 233, 234–235 new boldness in dealing with women, 62 children, 12–13 new sense of power in 1915, 160 death of, 235 Nicholas should be a strong autocrat, 85 early life, 12 and organized religion, 55–56 family home of, 49–50, 60, 234, 235, 237, overall assessment, 240 237–238 patriotic, 145 relationship with Rasputin, 13, 22, 23, petitioners at his apartment, 134–135 49, 56, 190 photos of, 28, 63, 113 in Tyumen, 120 pilgrimages, 12, 14, 17, 21–22, 73–75 Rasputin, Varvara (daughter), 13, 134, 208, public hostility, 54, 62, 108, 110, 122, 222, 233, 235 145, 153, 168, 170, 176, 193–195, 201, (MGM film), 236 207–208, 216, 218, 222, 237–240 Rasputin family history, 5–7 receives bribes, 110 Rasputin name, 2, 6, 42–43 relations with Nicholas and Alexandra, 187 Rayner, Oswald (British agent), 227, 228, residences in St. Petersburg, 109, 133, 237 228, 229–230, 231 routine of, 185–186 “Reign of Rasputin,” 131, 141, 177 on Russia’s allies, 114, 118–119 religious moods in Russia, 111 sketch of, 120–121, 121 Reshetnikova, Anisya, 140 spiritual crisis, 112–113, 185 restaurants Rasputin patronized, 138–141, as starets, 23, 26, 27, 110 159, 185–186, 204 surname of, 2, 6, 42–43 Revolution of 1905, 33, 41, 59, 67–68, 87 temperance advocate, 112–113 revolutionaries, 31–32 threats against, 193–194 Rodionov, Ivan, 84 underestimated by his “betters,” 40–41 Rodzyanko, Michael (political leader), use of ty, 41, 44 92–93, 107–108, 110, 163, 173, 201 way of speaking, 11–12 Romanov, Anastasia (Nicholas II’s See also appearance of Rasputin; attacks daughter), 35, 94, 98–99 on Rasputin; death of Rasputin; faith Romanov, Maria (Nicholas II’s daughter), of Rasputin; personality of Rasputin; 35, 94, 98–99 pilgrim (stranniki); predictions of Romanov, Olga (Nicholas II’s daughter), Rasputin; sexual behavior of Rasputin; 35, 61, 89, 94, 144, 202, 223 World War I Rasputin’s claims of sexual intimacy Rasputin, Maria (daughter) with, 165 after death of Rasputin, 233 Romanov, Tatyana (Nicholas II’s daughter), on alcohol consumption by Rasputin, 185 35, 61, 89, 94, 144 on appearance of Rasputin, 13 Romanov family birth of, 13 criticism of Nicholas II, 223 on birth of Rasputin, 7 imprisonment of, 234–235 burial of Rasputin and, 222 report on Rasputin shown to, 141 on December 16, 1916, 208 tercentenary celebration (1913), 107–108 on early life of Rasputin, 8–9 See also Nicholas II; Olga; Xenia; other education of, 134 family members on grandparents, 7 Roullier, Alain, 219 later life, 235–236 Rozanov, Vasily, 111 on Rasputin’s return from pilgrimage, 22 Rubenstein, Dmitry, 138 on incriminating photographs, 72 Rumania, 151, 227, 228 marriage of, 234–235 Russia memoirs, 8 armies of, 131 relationship with Rasputin, 112, 208 Brusilov Offensive, 152–153 surgery on Rasputin, 120 food problems in, 151–152, 181

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Russia (continued) Scale, Muriel, 227, 230 political problems, 33, 162 Schlossberg, Heinrich, 136 reaction to Rasputin’s death, 218 sects/sectarians, 19–20 war fever in, 113–115, 127–129, 131 Senate, 166 war with Germany, 131, 143, 145, serfdom, 23–24 146–147, 155, 167 Sergei (bishop), 26, 27, 29 See also Duma; World War I Seven Lakes Monastery, 25 Russian Orthodox Church sexual behavior of Rasputin Alexandra and, 34, 35 accusation of rape, 61 aristocrats and, 29 boasts of, 70–71 baptism into, 7, 17 in early years, 11 crises in, 24, 28, 168 with followers, 56 demand to restore patriarch, 83 of Holy Fools, 64 disillusionment with, 55–56 investigation of, 53–54 Easter, 75 Khlysty sect and, 20 faith of peasants and, 9, 16, 24 open expression of, 112 favors peace in 1913, 115 with petitioners, 187 healing through prayer, 105 resistance to temptation, 22–23, 187–190 Iliodor and, 68, 85 with women of Kazan, 25 leadership of, 78 with women of Pokrovskoye, 22–23 membership in, 19 See also homosexuality miracles, visions, and, 21, 105 Shcheglovitov, Ivan, 83 music, 19, 53 Shcherbatov, Nicholas, 157, 159–160 pilgrimages and, 73 Shelley, Gerard, 140 Rasputin as divisive force, 82 Shishkin, Oleg (writer), 226, 229 Rasputin’s influence in, 168–169 Shishkina, Tamara, 191, 192 on saints and drowning, 219 Siberia See also Holy Synod infant mortality in, 8, 13 land of, 3–4 Sabler, Vladimir, 77, 79–80, 81, 82, 93, 168 literacy rate in, 4, 9 Sablin, Nicholas, 140–141, 223 names of residents of, 6 Saint Isaac’s Cathedral, 173 peasants of, 23 Saint Nicholas Monastery at Verkhoturye, religion in, 9 14, 15, 16, 22, 191 residents of, 3–4 Saint Petersburg See also Pokrovskoye and other Alexander Nevsky Monastery, 26, 27, 173 towns; Verkhoturye and particular efforts to ban Rasputin from, 59, monasteries 117–118 Simanovich, Aaron (Rasputin’s secretary), Rasputin’s arrival in, 26 56, 137–138, 207, 235 Rasputin’s life in, 27–30, 44 Simeon (Saint), 15, 41 Rasputin’s return to, 39 Skvortsov, Vasily, 171 suspicion of Rasputin in, 57–58 Soloviev, Boris, 234–236 See also Petrograd Soloviev, Nicholas, 171 Saint Petersburg Theological Academy, Spala hunting preserve, 97–99 28–29, 67, 171, 175 Spiridovich, Alexander (palace Saint Seraphim of Serov, 222 commandant and historian), 100, 170 Salvation, 20 spies and spy mania, 145–146, 200, 203 Samarin, Alexander, 157, 168–171 starets, 23, 26, 27, 110 Sazonov, Georgy (journalist), 30, 87, 88, 189 State Hospital #749 at Tyumen, 120, 122 Sazonov, Sergei (imperial minister), 136, 178 Stavka (army headquarters), 143–144, Scale, John (British agent), 227–228, 230 150, 182

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Steblin-Kamensky Gymnasium, 134 Varnava (archbishop), 77–80, 81, 82, 121, Stolypin, Prime Minister Peter, 41, 57–61, 122, 176 87–89 and John Maximovich scandal, 168–170, stranniki (pilgrims), 21–22 174, 176 Sturmer, Prime Minister Boris, 162–163, Varvarova, Vera, 186, 187–188 177, 178, 181 Vasiliev, Alexander, 99, 139 Succession Edict of Emperor Paul, 35 Vecchi, Joseph, 186, 193 sudba, 9, 35 Verkhoturye, monastic center Sukhomlinov, Vladimir, 143, 145, 157 photo of, 16 Sukhotin, Sergei (and plot against Rasputin’s pilgrimages to, 14, 15, 22, Rasputin), 203, 211, 213, 223, 231, 236 191–192 Svistunov, 134 Victoria (queen), 33–34, 38, 64 Virgin Mary, 20–21, 74 Taneyev, Alexander, 46 Vladimir (metropolitan of Saint Tansin, Lisa, 72 Petersburg), 82, 172 Teffi (writer), 194 Vladimirov, physician at Tyumen, telegrams 119–120 about Alexis, 99–100, 101 Vlasyuk, Stepan, 212 about Iliodor, 85 Voeikov, Vladimir (palace commandant), 111 about supreme commander role, 148 Volzhin, Alexander, 171–175 Alexandra and, 119, 120, 127 von Hindenburg, Paul, 178 leaked to Duma, 129 von Leuchtenberg, George, 29 on Protopopov, 182 Vostokov, Vladimir, 81, 82 temperance campaigns, 112–113 Vyrubov, Alexander, 46–47 Tercentenary of Romanov rule (1913), Vyrubova, Anna (friend of Rasputin’s and 107–109 Alexandra’s) Terekhov, 134 Alexandra and, 46–48, 133, 159–160, 208 Thespé, 226 on Alexis (son of the tsar), 97 threats against Rasputin Alexis (bishop) and, 80 in letters, 194 at burial of Rasputin, 222–223 by telephone, 207 church built by, 222, 238 Tobolsk, 7, 81, 169, 234–235 Easter trip and, 95 Tolstoy family, 46, 236 evaluates Rasputin, 48, 60, 150–151 Tomsk Psychiatric Clinic, 126–127 importance to Rasputin, 132–133, Transvestitism, 198 164, 166 Tregubova, Vera, 188 influence, 159 Trepov, Prime Minister Alexander, 181, Khvostov and, 90 182–183 later life and death of, 237 Troika, 159–161, 163–165 meetings at her house, 195 Trotsky, Leon (as historian), 33 meets Rasputin, 46–47 Tsaritsyn, 68, 71, 77, 82, 121, 194 Montenegrins and, 47, 52 , 34, 57, 111, 133, 144, 148, as nurse, 144 191, 222 plot to kill Rasputin and, 165–166, Turkey/Turks, 113, 114, 172 208, 215 Tyumen, 7, 117, 120, 122 as Rasputin’s accomplice, 57–58, 102, district court, 126 104–105 State Hospital # 649, 120–122 relationship with Rasputin, 164, 185 Tyutcheva, Sophie, 61, 62 on reunion between tsar and Rasputin, 132 Spala episode, 102 Uexkuell (Rasputin admirer), 44 and spies, use by, 145 Union of the Russian People, 67–68 telegrams routed through, 129

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Vyrubova, Anna (continued) Xenia (sister of Nicholas II), 108–109, 198 train wreck restores friendship with Alexandra, 133 Yar restaurant, 138–141, 159 veracity of, 150–151 Yusupov, Felix (organizer of Rasputin’s Vyshnekova, Maria, 62 assassination) account of the assassination, 209–213 war, Rasputin’s shifting opinions, 113, 132, banishment of, 223 151, 152, 153, 226 birth and early life of, 197–198 war fever, 113–115, 127–129, 131 British agents and, 227, 229–230, 231 Warsaw Railway Station, 211 death of, 236 Webley revolver, 229 during the murder, 209–213 Winter Palace, 129–130 lies about women at his home, Witte, Sergei, 87–88, 115, 128–129 216, 226 women memoirs of, 201, 209, 230 Balashevskaya Convent, 71, 72, 83, 126 MGM libel suit, 236 behavior of Rasputin with, 25, 62–63, movements just after Rasputin’s murder, 187–188 215–216, 227, 229–230 in capital, wrongs against, 61–62 plans the assassination, 201–204, at Hotel Astoria, 186 205, 208 incriminating photographs with, 72–73 relationship with Rasputin, 199–200, investigation of Rasputin’s relationships 204, 205 with, 53–54 with wife, Irina, 199 in Moscow, 139 Yusupov, Irina (’s wife), 198, kissing, 69–70 199, 208, 236 in Pokrovskoye, relationships with, 11, Yusupov, Zinaida (Felix Yusupov’s mother), 22–23 197, 198, 199, 205, 208 prostitutes, 188–190 Yusupov Sumarokov-Elston, Felix (father Rasputin’s relationships with, in Kazan, 25 of Rasputin’s assassin), 197–198, 199 rich and powerful, 44–48 Yusupov palace on the Moika Canal, 197, treatment by Rasputin, 186–187 203, 204, 205, 208, 211, 215, 237 Yusupov’s lies concerning, 216, 226 See also sexual behavior of Rasputin zagovarivat’ krov’, gift of, 105 World War I Zharov, Vladimir, 219, 221, 226, 229 “Long Retreat” of 1915, 143 Zhevakov, Nicholas, 175, 176 major offensives, 131, 146, 152–153 Zhukovskaya, Vera (Rasputin follower), outbreak of, 118–119, 127 quoted 194 Russian losses, 167, 177 Znamensky Monastery at Abalak, 12, 19

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