Rasputin the Rascal Monk

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Le Queux William. Rasputin the Rascal Monk

Preface. Why this Book is Written

Chapter One. The Cult of the “Sister-Disciples.”

Chapter Two. Scandals at the Winter Palace

Chapter Three. How Rasputin Poisoned the Tsarevitch

Chapter Four. The “Hidden Hand” of Berlin

Chapter Five. Rasputin’s Secret Orders from Berlin

Chapter Six. Rasputin’s Secret Instructions from Berlin

Chapter Seven. The Plot to Spread Epidemics in Russia

Chapter Eight. The Mock-Monk Unmasked

Chapter Nine. Documentary Evidence of Treachery

Chapter Ten. Discloses the Charlatan’s Wiles

Chapter Eleven. Bamboozling the Allies

Chapter Twelve. The True Story of Rasputin’s End

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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.

As one whose duty it was before the war to travel extensively backwards and forwards across the face of Europe, in order to make explorations into the underworld of the politics of those who might be our friends – or enemies as Fate might decide – I heard much of the drunken, dissolute scoundrel from Siberia who, beneath the cloak of religion and asceticism, was attracting a host of silly, neurotic women because he had invented a variation of the many new religions known through all the ages from the days of Rameses the Great.

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When that grey afternoon the unkempt libertine was introduced to the small white-and-gold private salon of the Empress, which overlooks the gardens and the Neva on the northern wing of the palace, the Princess Obolensky, Princess Orbeliani and Countess Hendrikoff, maids-of-honour, were with Her Majesty, curious to see what manner of man it was who could perform miracles, and whom so many of the Society women in Petrograd and Moscow now acknowledged and addressed as “Master.”

Upon the threshold the mock-monk halted, and in that dramatic attitude, struck in order to impress his hearers, he stood with his left arm behind him, erect, with his unkempt head thrown back, his face stern and relentless, his grey eyes sharp and piercing.

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