The Crash of Russia

Chapter 15. The Russian-Japanese War. The Plehve murder. The appearance of a trade union.

On January 27, 1904, the Japanese fleet attacked the Russian squadron in the outer harbor of Port Arthur, which ensured an unhindered landing of the Japanese in Korea. Having not received sufficient resistance, the Japanese landed on the Kwantung Peninsula in May and blocked the railway connection between Port Arthur and Russia.

Meanwhile, Grigory Rasputin, who came to the capital in December 1903, met with Archpriest John of Kronstadt in Kronstadt.

(Sergiev), the former confessor of Alexander III and an active member of the Synod, and received his blessing to stay in St. Petersburg. John of Kronstadt even called Gregory a "man of God."

At the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Rasputin met with Feofan, who was then the confessor of the imperial family, and Bishop Hermogenes. Feofan settled Gregory in the rector's wing at the Academy. Later, Rasputin gained many admirers and admirers, and they rented him furnished rooms at 11 Karavannaya Street. Father Feofan told about the pilgrim Gregory to the daughters of the Montenegrin King Nicholas I, Milica Petrovich-Negosh (Princess Milica Nikolaevna, wife of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich) and her sister, Princess of Montenegro, Duchess of Leuchtenberg and Grand Duchess Stana, wife of Duke George Maximillianovich of Leuchtenberg.

In the second half of March 1904, there was talk at headquarters about strengthening our naval forces. Real measures were taken after the death

Vice Admiral Makarov on the sunken battleship Petropavlovsk. In early August, the siege of Port Arthur began.

On July 15, 1904, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve, Minister of the Interior, was assassinated. When his carriage reached the square of the Warsaw railway Station, the socialist-revolutionary militant Sozonov threw a bomb. The Minister was on his way to report to His Imperial Majesty on the activities of former Finance Minister Sergei Yulievich Witte, Chairman of the Committee of Ministers.

The next day, at the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo, the tsar met with Nikolai Valerianovich Muravyov, Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General Muravyov, and Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev, lawyer and Privy Councilor. The tsar was sitting in an armchair in the Maple Living Room and smoking cigarettes. Pobedonostsev reported to the emperor for ten minutes that the murdered Minister Plehve had collected all the evidence that Minister Witte had ties to the revolutionary movement and received money from American bankers for the fact that Witte had previously introduced the gold standard of the ruble, beneficial to the Anglo-American system, and most importantly, introduced and is introducing laws in Russia that play into the hands of the revolutionary movement laws that contribute to the collapse of the economy and autocracy. After listening to Pobedonostsev's report, the tsar said: "We have lost a friend and an irreplaceable minister in Plehve. Strictly, the Lord visits us with his anger, but we cannot believe that Minister Witte, who is devoted to us, is connected with the revolutionary movement and takes money from American bankers. If there is no evidence, then we will not talk about it." The Minister of Justice replied: "The three of us had previously met: me, Konstantin Petrovich and the late Plehve. Plehve told us that his office had collected all the evidence of Witte's guilt. And yesterday, Plehve was supposed to provide a folder with evidence, but he was killed. I propose to Your Imperial Majesty that Witte be removed from office."

"Since there's no proof, we can't decide that. This is just a suggestion that Plehve might have evidence against Witte. You don't have the folder in your hands, so please don't bring it up again," the emperor replied.

- "Who do you propose to appoint to the post of Minister of Internal Affairs now"? – the king asked the audience. At that moment, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna entered the living room, who heard her son's question, and she said from the doorway: "We believe that Pyotr Dmitrievich Svyatopolk–Mirsky should be appointed. He was an assistant to the Minister of the Interior and commander of the Imperial Corps of Gendarmes, and he also proved himself well as the governor-general in Vilna, the local nobility is satisfied with them," she said.

"If no one objects, we will sign the Decree on the appointment," said the tsar.

"We agree," said Pobedonostsev.

"So be it. If there are no more questions, we will end the meeting," said the king. Pobedonostsev and Muravyov bowed to Nicholas II and his mother and left.

Meanwhile, Priest Georgy Gapon gathered factory workers around him in the first trade union in Russia, which was legally registered back in 1903. After the resignation of the first chairman of the Zubatov meeting, he became the head of the society. In February 1904, the Minister of the Interior approved the organization's charter, and on April 24, 1904, the first meeting of Russian factory workers in St. Petersburg was held, which aimed to improve the lives of workers. The meeting was held at the Vyborg Department Tea Club in St. Petersburg.

In the autumn, in the theater of military operations, it was decided to create the 2nd Pacific Squadron from the remaining Baltic and unfinished warships under the leadership of Vice Admiral Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky.

On October 2, 1904, the 2nd Pacific Squadron sailed from Libava, which was published in all the newspapers. People were discussing this everywhere in St. Petersburg. Rasputin, having learned this, prophetically told his flock: - "I feel it in my heart - it will drown!".

On December 20, 1904, the Russian garrison of Port Arthur surrendered to the Japanese.

Chapter 16. The Prince Alexei.

The birth of an heir was predicted earlier by the fool Daria Osipova. She suffered from epilepsy. Her seizures were often perceived as a trance, into which Osipova plunged in order to prophesy. In her village, Daria became famous for having the ability to heal. Although the healer Daria frightened Alexandra Feodorovna with her behavior and seizures, she was kept in the palace. One day in January 1904, Daria fell to the floor in the Winter Palace and rolled on the floor in a fit, foaming at the mouth and shouting: "a son will be born to the queen." Alexandra Fyodorovna and Nikolai Alexandrovich were nearby at that moment and watched Daria's seizure. When Daria regained consciousness, the tsar helped her to her feet and asked: "That's right-will we have an heir?" Daria replied, "Yes, my Lord, this year." "Thank God, at last!" the queen exclaimed.

In the evening, Nikolai and Alexandra had a pleasant dinner, drank Madeira and Champagne, and went to bed satisfied. At night, the king woke up in a cold sweat and got out of bed. Alix opened her eyes and asked: "What happened?” – I saw in a dream a woman in a red dress with a red rosary with a silver cross in her hands. She came and said that whoever was born "would answer for everyone, and we would all be killed for her son."…

"But who is this?" asked the queen. This is the wife of False Dmitry, Marina Mnishek. My father told me about her, because he believed that his children should know the history of their kind, no matter how tragic and terrible it might be. In 1608, the first tsar of our dynasty, Mikhail Romanov, ordered, on the advice of the boyars, the execution of the three-year-old "Ivan Vorenka", the son of False Dmitry II from the Polish Maria Mnishek, crowned as the Russian tsarina, so that there would be no trouble later. The boyars demanded a painful death for the child, but my ancestor decided to show "mercy" - to replace the painful execution of the boy with a quick one - hanging. It was winter in Moscow, and it was very cold. The boy was tricked away from his mother and led to the Serpukhov Gate in Moscow in his shirt sleeves. He asked, "Where are you taking me? No one stood up for the boy. He was hanged, but the thick noose was poorly tied (it could not tighten on the child's thin neck), and instead of a quick death, the boy died in the cold for several hours. An unhappy mother, dressed in a red dress, was forced to watch her son's execution. She watched in silence, gritting her teeth. And then she cursed the Romanov family to the last knee and called for blood to fall on the heads of the Romanov children, saying in Polish with Russian words: "As an innocent son died, so all your sons will die... and there will be no rest for your family until the last of your sons falls where the first rose – under the shadow of the holy Hypatia." A few months later, Mnishek died of death in the Kolomna Tower in Moscow, she was strangled. Before she died, she gave her maid a strange object– a red rosary with a silver cross."

Alix replied, "How awful, it looks like a sacrifice–the execution of a baby. Why wasn't he exiled to a monastery? Nothing can be changed now. Your ancestor marked his rise to power with innocent blood... will our son be the last prince?"- "It seems Abel was right."..Exhaling, Nikolai said. "We will not survive 18 years," the king continued, got up and went to pray.

The birth of the long-awaited heir in. The birth of the long-awaited heir in Peterhof on July 30, 1904, did not bring relief to the reigning sovereign. The attending physician of the Romanov family, Botkin, discovered that Tsarevich Alexei was bleeding, which began spontaneously from the navel 6 weeks after birth. The bleeding could not be stopped for two days, although the dressing was done continuously and the prince could die from blood loss. Mitya Kozelsky, a fool who had previously lived with monks from the Optina monastery of the Desert, was summoned to the tsar and first prayed for the tsarevich, muttering something under his breath (his speech was always unintelligible, it was guttural sounds with grunts and screams, which were translated into Russian by Elpidifor accompanying him), and then Mitya Kolyaba had an epileptic fit, he began to roll on the floor, without affecting the condition of the prince in any way, and Kananykin Elpidifora, who came with him, took him by the arms.…Then Alexandra Feodorovna called the fool Daria Osipova, who came barefoot to the palace in an old dress., she knelt in front of the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which hung in the corner of the room where the prince was, and after getting soaked for half an hour, she also fell into an epileptic fit, which horrified the empress, and the tsar sent for Dr. Badmaev, but he came and said that he had no way to stop the blood, but he would healing baths made from Tibetan herbs and as soon as the blood stops, the baby will benefit from it. Finally, Botkin managed to stop the bleeding, which he made an entry in the journal. Later, Gleb Botkin held a consultation with Dr. Karl Gottlieb Rauchfuss and Professor Sergey Fedorov. All three came to the conclusion that there was a suspicion of a royal disease – hemophilia, but they did not make a precise diagnosis, they discussed the prince's blood clotting and the inability to make a dressing due to the soft tissue. On September 8, 1904, the emperor wrote the following in his diary: "Alix and I were very concerned about little Alexei's bleeding, which continued intermittently until the evening." A year and a half later, it was found that the child had hemophilia, which is manifested by increased bleeding on certain days, which Botkin recorded: these days coincided with the dates of the previous Romanov deaths. For example, blood flowed spontaneously on the day of the death of Emperor Pavel Petrovich on February 11-12, on the day of the assassination of Alexander III on March 13, on the day of the death of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich on June 26, and then on June 28 – this is the day of the death of Peter III and Nicholas II's brother George, and especially strongly the blood flowed on July 3 on the day of death Marina Mnishek's son Vorenka. The tsarevich's life was under threat every second. The news of an incurable illness about the dream of the only heir made his father finally believe in the evil fate that hung over his family. Daria Osipova and Mitya Kozelsky were removed from the yard, as they could not help the child in any way. Badmaev's herbs helped – they relieved the condition after bleeding. One day in the autumn of 1905, the Montenegrin Princesses Milica (wife of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich) and Stan (wife of His Serene Highness Prince George Maximilianovich) invited the tsarina to meet with Elder Grigory Rasputin, whom they had previously met on a pilgrimage in Kiev. Rasputin was called a "man of God" by John of Kronstadt himself and blessed him. There was a conversation in Peterhof between Princess Milica and the Empress over a cup of tea. "Do you remember, dear Alix," said the Grand Duchess, "what Dr. Philip told you before he left? He predicted that God will send you and Nicky a new friend who will be your support! Trust me, Alix! He's going to be the friend Philip was talking about! He will save Russia for Nika and cure your son! God sent him to you!"– "Let him come and help, it's God's will!" - replied Alix. The next day, November 1, 1905, Nicholas II wrote in his diary: "I was very busy all morning. We had breakfast: book. Orlov and Resin. I went for a walk. At 4 o'clock we went to Sergievka. We had tea with the Militia and Stana. We met a man of God, Gregory from the Tobolsk province. I went to bed in the evening, studied a lot, and spent the evening with Alix." The heir, Tsarevich Alexei, once again fell ill, bleeding in the navel area opened by itself and the doctors could not do anything, and then the Montenegrin Princess Milica, the wife of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich, offered to call the elder, who had a reputation as a healer. Rasputin arrived in a cart pulled by a bay mare. He entered the room, bowed to the waist to the tsar and the tsarina, saying to the tsar: "Hello Imperial Majesty," to which the tsar did not answer anything, but only nodded his head. Rasputin first approached the sick heir and looked at him, then knelt in the corner near the icon and prayed for half an hour, then got up and went to the child, crossed him three times and Alexei stopped bleeding. After that, the tsar, the tsarina and the elder drank tea. Rasputin spoke after his healing about how he had previously made pilgrimages to Mount Athos and Palestine. Rasputin said that "a serious illness was given to the tsarevich for the sins of the Romanov family, and that it cannot be cured, but it is possible to control the tsarevich's condition and that one must pray a lot for his health." After the child began to recover, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna came to believe in the supernatural abilities of the Tobolsk elder.

Chapter 17. Rasputin's meeting with the tsar.

One day in the autumn of 1905, the Montenegrin Princesses Milica (wife of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich) and Stan (wife of His Serene Highness Prince George Maximilianovich) invited the tsarina to meet with Elder Grigory Rasputin, whom they had previously met on a pilgrimage in Kiev. There was a conversation in Peterhof between Princess Milica and the Empress over a cup of tea. "Do you remember, dear Alix," said the Grand Duchess, "what Dr. Philip told you before he left? He predicted that God will send you and Nicky a new friend who will be your support! Trust me, Alix! He's going to be the friend Philip was talking about! He will save Russia for Nika and cure your son! God sent him to you!"– "Let him come and help, it's God's will!" - replied Alix.

The meeting of Nicholas II with Rasputin took place later, on November 1, 1905, in Sergievka. Rasputin had tea there with Montenegrin princesses Milica and Stana. And there the tsar and tsarina met with Grigory Rasputin. The heir, Tsarevich Alexei, once again fell ill, bleeding in the navel area opened by itself, and the doctors could not do anything, and then the Montenegrin Princess Milica, wife of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich, offered to call the elder, who had a reputation as a healer. Rasputin arrived in a cart pulled by a bay mare. He entered the room, bowed to the waist to the tsar and the tsarina, saying to the tsar: "Hello Imperial Majesty," to which the tsar did not answer anything, but only nodded his head. Rasputin first approached the sick heir and looked at him, then knelt in the corner near the icon and prayed for half an hour, then got up and went to the child, crossed him three times and Alexei stopped bleeding. After that, the tsar, the tsarina and the elder drank tea. Rasputin spoke after his healing about how he had previously made pilgrimages to Mount Athos and Palestine. Rasputin said that "a serious illness was given to the tsarevich for the sins of the Romanov family, and that it cannot be cured, but it is possible to control the tsarevich's condition and that one must pray a lot for his health." After the child began to recover, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna came to believe in the supernatural abilities of the Tobolsk elder. Rasputin talked about how he had previously made pilgrimages to Mount Athos and Palestine. Rasputin told the Empress that the serious illness was given to the tsarevich for the sins of the Romanov family and that it could not be cured, but the tsarevich's condition could be controlled and that much prayer was needed for his health. The tsarina asked the elder to become her spiritual mentor, and he agreed, becoming also the spiritual mentor of the Empress's friend and maid of honor, Anna Vyrubova. It was taken into account that Alexandra Feofan's confessor recommended Gregory as a pious man and the opinion of John of Kronstadt, who called Rasputin "a man of God." Rasputin talked about how he had previously made pilgrimages to Mount Athos and Palestine.

The next day, November 1, 1905, Nicholas II wrote in his diary: "I was very busy all morning. We had breakfast: book. Orlov and Resin. I went for a walk. At 4 o'clock we went to Sergievka. We had tea with the Militia and Stana. We met a man of God, Gregory from the Tobolsk province. I went to bed in the evening, studied a lot, and spent the evening with Alix."

Chapter 18. U.G.L.E. (United Grand Lodge of England).

Meanwhile, in London, the King of Great Britain and Ireland Edward VII, concurrently the head of the Masonic lodge – 33 degrees Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England (United Grand Lodge of England) convened a meeting of the Lodge, which was attended only by masters and apprentices (without students). After all the appropriate ceremonies and rituals were carried out, the Grand Master invited everyone to the table. He sat at the table next to the Grand Master, the assistant of the Grand Master – a cabbalist-numerologist, and on the other side of him sat the Grand Secretary of the UGLE. Besides them, there were 10 more Freemasons at this table - masters of lodges that are part of the UGLE structure - provincial Grand Lodges, including the head of the Naval Intelligence Department (NIP), Captain of the Naval Service Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming, responsible for foreign intelligence, naval mobilization and war plans, among other things, and who was the Master of the 32nd degree of the UGLE lodge.

- "We have gathered here to discuss our plans regarding Russia and Japan," Edward VII began his speech. - It is not enough for us that we did not allow Russia to buy new ships in Latin America, thereby weakening the Russians. Which led to their defeat in the 2nd Pacific campaign and decided the outcome of the war. We need to arrange a revolution in Russia, achieve the collapse of this empire that is hindering us, so that Russia not only does not have its own territories in the Far East, but so that it also falls apart in the European part and in the Caucasus. "All means are good for this, except a direct war with Russia. What proposals do you have?" the King of England finished his speech.

The Great Master replied: - "I propose increasing the financing of the left forces - Russian revolutionaries, Socialist Revolutionaries and liberals through the banking houses of Wall Street, Swiss banks and German banks. Let them prepare the population of Russia for a rebellion."

- "I support, but we still need to talk to our loyal military men from the General Staff in Japan and to the French brothers from the "Grand Orient of France". The lodge of the "Grand Orient of France" will order the lodge subordinate to them in Russia to organize a rebellion," added the head of Naval Intelligence Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming.

- "I agree," Edward replied.

- "Allow me to report the general scenario of the development of events, according to astrological calculations and cabalistic dates," continued the assistant of the Great Master, the Master and at the same time the king's privy councilor.

- "We are listening to you, we are still under the impression of how you created a traceless poison for Alexander III, which was on a gift for the Tsar from Queen Elizabeth.

And special thanks for calculating the date of the celebration after the coronation of Nicholas II, which was at Khodynka, the number of deaths exceeded 666, the reputation of the Tsar was undermined from the beginning of his reign. It is a pity that he was not killed at all before the coronation by Ivan Rasputin's group, if we had interacted with them, they would have succeeded. Now we need to make a rebellion in Russia and for Japan to put pressure on the other side, and then the monarchy will fall. We are listening to you."

- "I calculated the Cabalistic date when many times more people should die than at Khodynka. This will be a ritual sacrifice to Baphomet, if it is done on January 9, 1905, and if it succeeds, then on this day the Russian Tsar must die at the hands of revolutionaries. This will be the highest sacrifice. And if not the collapse, then the beginning of the collapse of the Russian Empire. In this situation, the Japanese fleet will land in St. Petersburg without much resistance," the king's adviser finished his speech.

- "In that case, we must begin in Russia with the organization of trade unions so that they can organize a revolution by the date we need," said the Great Master.

- "But we must take into account that according to the horoscope of Brother Hamon, unfortunately, who is not present here, Russia must be shaken by two wars and three revolutions, after which only the monarchy will collapse in 1917, and then the dynasty will be interrupted in 1918. According to Hamon's horoscopes, the first revolution follows in 1905, but two more will follow in 1917. So everything is going gradually, as predetermined from above, and the main thing is that the Tsar is aware of Hamon's horoscope, and therefore will not resist much. That is so, but we should ask Brother Papus from the lodge "Order of the Supreme Unknowns" to visit Russia again and confirm Hamon's horoscope, so that the Tsar will definitely not take any measures, understanding all events as predetermined." - "I agree, so is it!" - said Edward VII.

The Grand Secretary of the UGLE said: - "We must give the appropriate instructions to our people in Russia through the lodge "Grand Orient of the Peoples of Russia". Namely: let the ambassador meet with Princess Stana of Montenegro in St. Petersburg and tell her to tell the empress that the tsar should not prevent the businessman Emmanuel Nobel from buying up oil wells in Azerbaijan; let her say that he is her friend in spiritual interests and is a member of a secret society, and the policy pursued by Russia - to achieve a state monopoly on oil - interferes with his business. And let her also gain the trust of Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich and Prince Felix Yusupov the Younger. At the right moment, they will help us." - "Yes, we need to achieve control over oil in Baku through Nobel's brother, we have already invested in his business in Baku, he bought up wells, and the income from the sale of oil goes to us. In the event of a revolution, Russia will lose Azerbaijan and we must not allow Russia to have a monopoly on the state's oil now," said the Great Master.

- "We received intelligence from an agent in Warsaw, A.N. Grim, about the state of the troops and weapons, which the lieutenant colonel managed to pass on to Austro-Hungarian intelligence before his arrest. Our brother in intelligence from Austria-Hungary passed all the information to us, and we then passed it on to the Japanese through the Japanese ambassador. But we need to recruit new agents among the military in Russia, for which we need to allocate new funds," said the head of the Naval Intelligence Department.