Nicholas and Alexandra

16 Philippe Vachot: Paleologue, I, 203–10; Pares, 131.

17 Impeccable credentials: Gilliard, 62.

18 Bedtime stories: Vyrubova, 161; Fulop-Miller, 141.

19 “Will you come and meet a Russian peasant?”: Vorres, 138.

20 Rasputin’s behavior at the palace: ibid., 140.

21 “A good, religious, simple-minded Russian”: Rodzianko, 11; Pares, 139; Paleologue, II, 93.

22 “It was the boy’s illness: Pares, 138. “Call it what you will”: ibid., 138. “Rasputin’s presence in the palace”: Gilliard, 84.

23 “Rasputin took the empire”: Haldane, 39.

24 General Beletsky: Pares, 138.

25 Dr. Lucas: Lucas, passim.

26 Relationship between emotions and bleeding: Drs. Agle, Mattsson and Gross, Poinsard (in Brinkhous) and Lucas all describe this relationship.

27 “The power, the nervous force … from my father’s eyes”: Rasputin, 39.

28 “There is no doubt”: Vorres, 142.

29 “The poor child lay in pain”: ibid., 142.

CHAPTER 16 THE HOLY DEVIL

 1 Rasputin’s costume: Vorres, 141.

 2 “Curiosity, unbridled and embarrassing”: ibid., 139.

 3 “In Alicky’s boudoir”: ibid., 139.

 4 “Our eyes met”: Dehn, 100.

 5 “Come, my lovely mare”: Fulop-Miller, 271. “Yes, yes, my dears”: ibid., 271.

 6 “Dirty hands into his favorite fish soup”: Pares, 140.

 7 “He had too many offers”: Pares, 142.

 8 “Women found in Gregory Efimovich”: Fulop-Miller, 207.

 9 “Would you be ready?”: ibid., 206–7.

10 “You think that I am polluting you”: ibid., 215.

11 “Rasputin was there”: Vorres, 139.

12 “Oh please, he wants to see you so much”: ibid., 140.

13 The Tiutcheva episode: Fulop-Miller, 146; Gilliard, 62–3; Mosolov, 163–4.

14 Breach between the sisters: Paleologue, I, 161.

15 St. Petersburg in an uproar: Rodzianko, 31.

16 “I have shut his trap”: Iliodor, 202.

17 “This is not a family affair”: Rodzianko, 27–8.

18 “Let one man bring a plank”: Iliodor, 67; Fulop-Miller, 60.

19 Rasputin in Tsaritsyn: Iliodor, 108. “Gregory, you are Christ”: ibid., 111.

20 “Take your choice”: ibid., 116.

21 “My beloved, unforgettable teacher”: Moorehead, 72.

22 Were they lovers?: Pares, 145; Kokovtsov, 299.

23 “You are smashing our sacred vessels”: Pares, 146; Iliodor, 233–4.

24 “Never and nowhere”: Pares, 146; Iliodor, 238. Rasputin’s revenge: Kokovtsov, 293.

25 Iliodor produces the letters: Iliodor, 255.

26 “You have bowed down to the Devil”: Pares, 150.

27 “It was my intention to start a revolution”: Iliodor, 269.

28 60,000 roubles: Vyrubova, 172, 399.

29 Rasputin avoided the palace: ibid., 160.

30 “Saints are always calumniated”: Botkin, 123. “He is hated because we love him”: Vyrubova, 162.

31 “I went often to Rasputin’s lodgings”: ibid., 165. “Rasputin had no harem”: ibid., 166.

32 “Rasputin was a Janus”: quoted by Almedingen, 127.

CHAPTER 17 “WE WANT A GREAT RUSSIA”

 1 “We are not frightened.… We want a Great Russia”: Kokovtsov, 184; Pares, 112.

 2 “His capacity for work”: Izvolsky, 98. “His nobility, courage and devotion”: Kokovtsov, 165. “An ideal man to transact business with”: Buchanan, I, 160.

 3 “I cannot tell you”: Pares, 111.

 4 Stolypin in Saratov: Pares, 94.

 5 “An elderly man … with Picadilly whiskers”: Virginia Cowles, The Gay Monarch (New York, Harper, 1956), 340.

 6 “Stolypin told us”: Kokovtsov, 153.

 7 “Stolypin’s necktie”: Charques, 161; Kerensky, Crucifixion, 121.

 8 The attempt on Stolypin’s life: Kokovtsov, 163–4; Florinsky, 1195.

 9 Nicholas’s proposal to sell crown lands: Harcave, 251–2.

10 “If this should continue”: Wolfe, II, 31. “One must be able to look truth in the face”: Fischer, 54.

11 The opening of the First Duma: Kokovtsov, 129–31. “Let the executive power bow”: ibid., 140. “Retire! Retire!”: ibid., 143, 145.

12 “The sessions of the Duma are hereby resumed”: ibid., 155.

13 The ceiling caved in: ibid., 170.

14 A madhouse: ibid., 171. Police plots: ibid., 182–3. “Hands up!… Not afraid!”: ibid., 172.

15 “A grotesque deputation is coming from England”: N to MF, 219.

16 “All would be well”: N to MF, 228. Zurabov: Kokovtsov, 179–80.

17 The Third Duma: ibid., 197–8, 209; Florinsky, 1200; Pares, 109.

18 “May an Englishman”: Pares, 117.

19 “This Duma cannot be reproached”: Kokovtsov, 222. “The Duma started too fast”: Pares, 118.

20 Stolypin and Witte: Pares, 110.

21 Stolypin and Rasputin: Rodzianko, 24. Stolypin’s failing health: Kokovtsov, 249.

22 “A Tsar’s heart is in God’s hands”: ibid., 167.

23 Stolypin resigns: ibid., 263; Pares, 123. “This is not a question of confidence”: Kokovtsov, 223.

24 “I cannot accept your resignation”: ibid., 264.

25 “Unfortunately, my son is too kind”: ibid., 266.

26 Stolypin expects dismissal: ibid., 268. Petty slights: ibid., 271.

27 “We are superfluous”: Pares, 124. “Death is after him!”: ibid., 143.

28 Stolypin’s assassination: Kokovtsov, 272; Vorres, 126.

29 “Olga and Tatiana were with me at the time”: N to MF, 264–5.

30 Bogrov: Buchanan, I, 156–7; Florinsky, 1204.

31 “I cannot say how distressed”: MF to N, 262.

32 The Tsar urged to leave Kiev immediately: MF to N, 262. “I returned to Kiev in the evening”: N to MF, 265–6. “I went at once to the nursing home”: ibid., 266. The Tsar attended the service: Kokovtsov, 276.

33 Kokovtsov averts a pogrom: ibid., 273–4.

34 “I was accorded a most hearty welcome”: ibid., 281. “I notice you keep on making comparisons”: ibid., 283.

35 “Strange as it may seem”: ibid., 291. “Although they were absolutely impeccable”: ibid., 290. “We believed that the letters were apocryphal”: ibid., 293.