To Kill Rasputin: The Life and Death of Grigori Rasputin (Revealing History) (37 page)

13 Memorandum – Biographical Details of Stephen Alley (The Alley Papers).

14
The Fourth Seal
, Sir Samuel Hoare (Heinemann, 1930), p3ff.

15 Sir Samuel Hoare,
ibid
., p.29.

16
Rasputin,
Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.11ff.

17
The Mystery of Lord Kitchener’s Death,
Donald MacCormick (Putman, 1959), p.91ff.

18 Source Records of the Great War, Vols I-VII, Charles F. Horne (editor), (National Alumni, 1923).

19
The Russian Diary of an Englishman
, Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), (Heinemann, 1919), p.45.

20 Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford),
ibid
., 28 August 1915, p.56.

21 Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford),
ibid
., Letter to Lady Ripon, 5 September 1915.

22 Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford),
ibid
., Letter to Lady Sarah Wilson at the Allied Forces Hospital, Boulogne, 22 August 1915.

23
My Mission to Russia
, Vol. I, Rt Hon. Sir George Buchanan, p.250.

24
Lost Splendour,
Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1953), p.186.

25
The Russian Diary of an Englishman
, Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), (Heinemann, 1919), Letter to Lady Juliet Duff, 17 October 1915.

26
My Mission to Russia,
Vol. I
,
Rt Hon. Sir George Buchanan, p.250.

27
Petrograd, the City of Trouble
, Meriel Buchanan (Collins, 1919), p.78.

28 Telegram from the Tsarina to the Tsar, 3 November 1915, Fond 640, GARF, Moscow.

C
HAPTER
F
IVE
: D
ARK
F
ORCES

1  
Rasputin
, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.74ff.

2  
Petrograd, the City of Trouble
, Meriel Buchanan (Collins, 1919), p.67.

3  
The Story of ST25
, Sir Paul Dukes (Cassell & Co, 1938), p.16ff.

4  
Rasputin: The Man Behind the Myth
, Maria Rasputin & Patte Barham, p.10ff.

5  
Rasputin, the Last Word
, Edvard Radzinski (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p.25ff.

6   Marriage of Efim Yakovlevich Rasputin and Anna Vasilievna, 21 January 1862, Register of the Church of the Mother of God, Pokrovskoe, Fond 205, GATO.

7   Birth Registers, Church of the Mother of God, Pokrovskoe, Fond 205, GATO.

8  
Ibid
.

9   Pokrovskoe Censuses, Fond 177,
State Archive of the Province of Tyumen
GATO.

10 See note 4 above.

11 File of the Tobolsk Ecclesiastical Consistory – Charge made against Grigori Rasputin concerning the spreading of false teachings similar to those of the Khlysti, Fond 156, Tobolsk Branch of the State Archive of the Province of Tyumen (TFGATO).

12 Investigation of the assassination attempt on Grigori Rasputin in 1914, Fond 164, Tobolsk Branch of the State Archive of the Province of Tyumen (TFGATO).

13 Fond 164, GARF, Moscow.

14 Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1461, Schedule 1, Case 567, GARF, Moscow.

15 See note 9 above.

16
Rasputin i evrei
, Aaron Simanovich (National Reklama, 1923), p.20.

17
Ibid
.

18 See note 4 above.

19
Ibid
.

20
Ibid
.

21 Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, GARF, Moscow.

22
Ibid
.

23
Ibid
.

24
Ibid
.

25 See note 4 above.

26
Ibid
.

27
Thirteen Years at the Russian Court
, Pierre Gilliard (Hutchinson, 1921), p.79.

28 Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, GARF, Moscow.

29
Ibid
.

30
The Life and Times of Grigori Rasputin
, Alex De Jonge (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982), p.51ff.

31
Ibid
.

32
Dissolution of an Empire
, Meriel Buchanan (John Murray, 1932), p.87.

33
Ibid
.

34 Statement of Olga Lokhtina to investigator T.D. Rudnev, Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, Folios 100-4, 109-12, GARF, Moscow.

35
Ibid
.

36
Ibid
.

37 Diary of Tsar Nicholas II, 16 October 1906, Fond 601, GARF, Moscow.

38
Rasputin, the Last Word
, Edvard Radzinski (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p.91.

39 Statement of Grigori Sazonov to investigator F. P. Simpson, Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, Folios 298-300, GARF, Moscow.

40
Rasputin, the Last Word
, Edvard Radzinski (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p.134.

41
Thirteen Years at the Russian Court
, Pierre Gilliard (Hutchinson, 1921), p.65.

42
Rasputin, the Last Word
, Edvard Radzinski (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p.206.

43 Statement of Alexei Khvostov to investigator F. P. Simpson, Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, Folio 302-10, GARF, Moscow.

44
The Life and Times of Grigori Rasputin
, Alex De Jonge (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982), p.204.

45
Ibid
., p.205.

46
Ibid
.

47 Articles and Correspondence on Russia & Romania, J.D. Scale DSO, OBE (Scale Papers).

48
The Life and Times of Grigori Rasputin
, Alex De Jonge (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982), p.226.

49
Memoirs of a British Agent
, R. H. Bruce Lockhart (Putnam, 1932), p.60.

50
Rasputin
, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.154.

51
Memoirs of a British Agent
, R. H. Bruce Lockhart (Putnam, 1932), p.129.

52 Statement of Alexei Filippov to investigator F. P. Simpson, Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, Folios 327-42, GARF, Moscow.

53
The Life and Times of Grigori Rasputin
, Alex De Jonge (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982), p.237.

54
Memoirs of a British Agent
, R. H. Bruce Lockhart (Putnam, 1932), p.128ff.

55
Ibid
.

56
Ibid
.

57
Ibid
.

C
HAPTER
S
IX
: O
N THE
B
RINK

1  
Source Records of the Great War
, Vol. IV, p.185ff.

2  
The Russian Diary of an Englishman,
Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), (Heinemann, 1919), Monday 5 June 1916, Tuesday 6 June 1916.

3  
The War Memoirs of David Lloyd George,
Vol. I, David Lloyd George (Odhams, 1938), p.418ff
.

4  
Ibid
.

5  
Ibid
., Letter marked ‘Secret’, From H. H. Asquith to David Lloyd George.

6   Telegram from the Tsarina to the Tsar, 17 April 1915, Fond 640, GARF, Moscow. Edvard Radzinski also draws attention to documents burnt by the Tsarina in February 1917 that were believed to be compromising in terms of contact with Germany;
Rasputin, the Last Word,
Edvard Radzinski (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p.405ff.

7   Edvard Radzinski,
ibid
., p.408.

8  
Ibid
., p.409.

9   This section draws on
The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
, Ron Chernow (Random House Inc., New York, 1993), and
Jacob Schiff: a study in American Jewish Leadership,
Naomi W. Cohen (Brandeis University Press, 1999). The British (S.G. Warburg) bank did not start up until 1935.

10 Money from the American Warburgs saved the Hamburg bank from collapse post-war. See Chernow,
ibid.

11 Chernow,
ibid.
The ‘financial talks in London’ must have been the trip accompanied by Scale.

12 Kuhn, Loeb collaborated with Cassel, Rockefeller & J. P. Morgan. See Cohen, 1999,
ibid.

13 Cohen,
ibid.

14
www.britannica.com
; Jack P. Morgan.

15 The diary of Alexei Raivid, Soviet Consul in Berlin, 1927, 6 July 1927: conversation with Baron Hochen Esten, Fond 612, Schedule 1, Case 27, pp.4-6, GARF, Moscow.

C
HAPTER
S
EVEN
: W
AR
G
AMES

1   Entry 358, Register of Births in the Registration District of Merthyr Tydfil in the County of Glamorgan, John Dymoke Scale, 27 December 1882.

2  
The Ordeal of a Diplomat,
K.D. Nabokov (Duckworth, 1921). As
chargé d’affaires
in London between 1917 and the end of the war, he was the senior Russian representative in London – the Ambassador having been sent home and no replacement supplied. Some of his papers on India were later published by Trotsky in pamphlet form.

3   Nabokov,
ibid.

4  
Articles & Correspondence on Russia and Roumania 1915–1917
, J.D. Scale DSO, OBE (The Scale Papers).

5   Typed letter from Capt. J.D. Scale (Petrograd) to London headed ‘Dear Cox’, 7 November 1916, initialled (The Scale Papers).

6   Muriel Harding-Newman, Scale’s eldest daughter, referred to his friendship with Felix Yusupov in her interview with the author. She recalls that he was often a guest at the Yusupov Palace (interview 28 May 2003, Easter Ross, Scotland). According to Betty Aikenhead, his younger daughter, Scale last saw Yusupov in 1948, a year before he died (interview 9 February 2004, Toronto, Canada).

7  
Lost Splendour,
Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1953), p.29ff.

8  
Ibid
.

9  
Ibid
.

10
Rasputin,
Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.47.

11
Lost Splendour
, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1953), p.95.

12 Telegram from the Tsarina to the Tsar, 7 September 1916, Fond 640, GARF, Moscow.

13 Letter from David Lloyd George to H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister, ‘Confidential’, 26 September 1916, The Lloyd George Papers, LG/E/223/5, House of Lords Record Office.

14 Telegrams from the Tsarina to the Tsar, 18 and 24 September 1916, Fond 640, GARF, Moscow.

15 Sworn Statement of Sergei Trufanov, Sergei Trufanov v. The
Metropolitan
Magazine Company, Supreme Court, New York County, sworn 17 October 1916 (reproduced in full in Appendix 1).

16
New York Times
, 27 December 1916, p.4.

17 William Wiseman Papers, Group 666, f.260, Russia, [1917] 1, Sterling Library, Yale University.

18 War Memoirs of David Lloyd George
,
Vol. I, David Lloyd George, p.464.

19 From Switzerland, notes from a reliable source, ‘Secret’, 3 October 1916, The Lloyd George Papers, LG/E/3/27/2, House of Lords Record Office. Theodor Bethmann-Holweg was the German Premier.

20 Statement of Anna Vyrubova to investigator F. P. Simpson of the Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, Folios 347-63, GARF, Moscow.

C
HAPTER
E
IGHT
: C
ARDS ON THE
T
ABLE

1  
Lost Splendour,
Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1953), p.185.

2   Author’s interview with Betty Aikenhead, 9 February 2004, Toronto, Canada.

3   Author’s interview with Muriel Harding-Newman, 28 May 2003, Easter Ross, Scotland.

4  
Rasputin, the Saint who sinned,
Brian Moynahan (Random House, 1997), p.320; Statement of Ioann Aronovich Simanovich (son of Rasputin’s secretary Aron Simanovich) to investigator V.M. Rudnev of the Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, Folios 182-3, GARF, Moscow.

5  
Rasputin
, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.60ff.

6  
Ibid
.

7   In
Rasputin,
Yusupov does not name this person but simply says he is too old to take action; in
Lost Splendour
he identifies Rodzyanko.

8   See note 5 above.

9   Stopford’s diary (which, unlike Yusupov’s account, was written within days or hours of the events) has Dmitri Pavlovich in Petrograd quite specifically on 6/19 and 7/20 December, on which latter day Pavlovich and Stopford had lunch together privately in the Sergei Palace, and Stopford had supper there at midnight. If both accounts are correct, Pavlovich (presumably briefly in town to celebrate the Tsar’s name-day on 6/19 December) was to spend only about thirty-six hours back at the Stavka.

10
Rasputin
, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.199.

11 This is one of many contradictory aspects of Yusupov’s story. Yusupov had twice visited the Golovinas when Rasputin was there, and their house was right next door to that of his in-laws. Admittedly these were both large mansions, but it would seem he was taking rather a risk that his own parents would soon know all about it. According to Yusupov, when Rasputin suggested mentioning Felix’s name to Vyrubova they both agreed that this wouldn’t be a good idea at all as it would get back to his family. Yusupov says that he knew Vyrubova would be suspicious.

12
Rasputin
, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.112.