To Kill Rasputin: The Life and Death of Grigori Rasputin (Revealing History) (36 page)

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1  
The Ochrana
, A. T. Vassilyev (Harrup, 1930), p.47.

2   The statement of Fyodor Antonov Korshynov, yardkeeper, to Lt-Col. Popel of the Detached Gendarme Corps, 18 December 1916, Fond 102, Schedule 314, Case 35, GARF, Moscow.

3   Statement of Maria Grigorievna Rasputina to General Popov of the Detached Gendarme Corps, 18 December 1916, Fond 102, Schedule 314, Case 35, GARF, Moscow.

4   Statement of Anna Nikolaevna Rasputina to Lt-Col. Popel of the Detached Gendarme Corps, 18 December 1916, Fond 102, Schedule 314, Case 35, GARF, Moscow.

5   Statement of Ivan Manasevich Manuilov to investigator G. P. Girchich of the Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, Folios 191-4, GARF, Moscow.

6   Statement of Akim Ivanovich Zhuk to investigator I.V. Brykin of the Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, Folios 31-6, GARF, Moscow.

7   Telegram to Tsar Nicholas II from Okhrana, 17 December 1916, Fond 111, Schedule 1, Case 2981a, Page 1, GARF, Moscow.

8   Dmitri Pavlovich was the only son of the Tsar’s great-uncle Grand Duke Paul, who, after the death of Dmitri’s mother, had made a morganatic marriage and gone into exile, leaving Dmitri and his sister to be brought up by Grand Duchess Elizaveta and Grand Duke Sergei.

9   Statement of Yulia Dehn to investigator F. P. Simpson of the Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, Folios 364-7, GARF, Moscow.

10 To General Voikov, Palace Superintendent, December 1916, from Head of Interior Ministry, Fond 102, Schedule 314, Case 35, GARF, Moscow.

11 The bridge is just as long nowadays but is no longer wide. It was two carriage-widths before and is now essentially a footbridge.

12 Statement number 1740 of Police Inspector Asonov, Station no.4, 17 December 1916, Fond 102, Schedule 314, Case 35, GARF, Moscow.

13
Lost Splendour,
Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1953), p.235.

14 Yusupov,
ibid.

15 Statement of Ivan Nefedev to Lt-Col. Popel of the Detached Gendarme Corps, 17 December 1916 and statement of Mounya Golovina to Lt-Col. Popel of the Detached Gendarme Corps, 17 December 1916, Fond 102, Schedule 314, Case 35, GARF, Moscow.

16
The Murder of Rasputin
, V.M. Purishkevich, translated from the original Russian by Bella Costello, ed. Michael Shaw (Ardis Publishers, Ann Arbor, 1985), p.4.

17 Purishkevich,
ibid.,
editor’s introduction.

18 Purishkevich,
ibid.

19 The full text is quoted in
The Ochrana,
A.T. Vassilyev (Harrap, 1930). Vassilyev was the last Director of the Department of Police.

20 Lt-Col. Sir Samuel Hoare was an officer of the SIS, which was founded in 1909, and at this time (1916) operated under the name MI1c. It had stations throughout Europe and around the world. The Petrograd MI1c Station, run by Hoare, is referred to here and throughout this book as the British Intelligence Mission. SIS operates today under the name MI6.

21 Report ‘The Death of Rasputin’, from Lt-Col. Sir Samuel Hoare to C, 1 January 1917, Papers of the British Intelligence Mission, Petrograd, Templewood Papers, Part II, File 1, (16), CUL.

22 The news was in the 6.00p.m. edition.

23
The Russian Diary of an Englishman,
Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford) (Heinemann, 1919), p.21.

24 Report on Vera Koralli by Major-General Globachev, Fond 111, Schedule 1, Case 2981 (b), List 12, GARF, Moscow.

25 Samuel Hoare claims that Makarov ‘in the early morning… was rung up by an unknown voice that said ‘Rasputin has been murdered. Look for his body in the Islands.’
The Fourth Seal,
Sir Samuel Hoare (Heinemann, 1930)
,
p.151.

26 Diary of the Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, 17 December 1916, Fond 670, GARF, Moscow.

27
Lost Splendour,
Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1953), p.186.

28 The existence of this mysterious woman may be fiction. Yusupov included the story in
Lost Splendour
along with a similar one about threats to Pavlovich which is not independently verified. Golovina is supposed to have heard a group of people at Rasputin’s flat swearing revenge.

29 Yusupov, 1953,
ibid.,
p.239; a similar account of the evening is in Yusupov, 1927,
ibid.,
p.203.

30
Dissolution of an Empire,
Meriel Buchanan (John Murray, 1932), p.49.

31
The Fourth Seal
, Sir Samuel Hoare, (Heinemann, 1930), p.139. Hoare has a story about Yusupov being at the party with Dmitri Pavlovich and being carried shoulder high, but it is not a first-hand account and Hoare isunreliable.

32 Sir Samuel Hoare, 1930,
ibid.

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USPICION

1   Statement of Prince Felix Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston, to General Popov of the Detached Gendarme Corps dated 18 December 1916, Fond 102, Schedule 314, Case 35, GARF, Moscow.

2  
Rasputin i evrei
, Aaron Simanovich (National Reklama, 1923), p.45.

3   Quoted in
Rasputin, the Last Word
, Edvard Radzinski (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p.476.

4  
Lost Splendour,
Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1953), p.241.

5   Statement of Anna Nikolaevna Rasputina, to Lt-Col. Popel of the Detached Gendarme Corps dated 18 December 1916, Fond 102, Schedule 314, Case 35, GARF, Moscow.

6  
Ibid
.

7   Statement of Maria Vasilyevna Zhyravleva, to Lt-Col. Popel of the Detached Gendarme Corps dated 18 December 1916, Fond 102, Schedule 314, Case 35, GARF, Moscow.

8   Statement of Fyodor Antonov Korshynov, to Lt-Col. Popel of the Detached Gendarme Corps dated 18 December 1916, Fond 102, Schedule 314, Case 35, GARF, Moscow.

9   Statement of Flor Efimov Efimov, to Lt-Col. Popel of the Detached Gendarme Corps dated 18 December 1916, Fond 102, Schedule 314, Case 35, GARF, Moscow.

10 Statement of Stepan Fedoseev Vlasuk to Lt-Col. Popel of the Detached Gendarme Corps dated 18 December 1916, Fond 102, Schedule 314, Case 35, GARF, Moscow.

11
The Forgotten Hospital
, Michael Harmer (Springwood Books, 1982), p.117.

12
Rasputin,
Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.212.

13 Department of Police Report, 17 December 1916, Papers of the British Intelligence Mission, Petrograd, Templewood Papers, Part II, File 1 (47), CUL. Also reproduced in Appendix III of
The Russian Diary of an Englishman,
Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), (Heinemann, 1919).

14
Ibid
.

15 Appendix II ‘Memorandum privately circulated on December 31, 1916’ in Stopford, 1919,
ibid.

16
Ibid.

17 Telegram from Lt-Col. Sir Samuel Hoare to C, 31 December 1916, Papers of the British Intelligence Mission, Petrograd, Templewood Papers, Part II, File 1 (47), CUL.

18
Ibid
.

19 Report on Vera Koralli by Major-General Globachev, Fond 111, Schedule 1, Case 2891 (b), List 12, GARF, Moscow.

20
The Russian Diary of an Englishman
, Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), (Heinemann, 1919), p.44.

21
Ibid
.

22 Report ‘The Death of Rasputin’, from Lt-Col. Sir Samuel Hoare to C, 1 January 1917, Papers of the British Intelligence Mission, Petrograd, Templewood Papers, Part II, File 1 (16), CUL.

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: B
ODY OF
E
VIDENCE

1  
A Collection of Historical Materials
, Grigori Rasputin, Vol. 4 (Moscow, 1997), p.236/7.

2  
Ibid
.

3   The
Times
, Thursday 4 January 1917, p.7 col. f. (‘From our own correspondent,’ Petrograd 3 January 1917.) It is obvious from his earliest bulletin, which didn’t reach London, that he had seen the Police Report that Stopford and Buchanan saw at the embassy on the Sunday afternoon, as had other journalists.

4  
Rasputin,
Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.193ff.

5  
Ibid
., p.191.

6  
Thirteen years at the Russian Court
, Pierre Gilliard (Hutchinson, 1921), p.47.

7   Telegram from Lt-Col. Sir Samuel Hoare to C, 1 January 1917, Papers of the British Intelligence Mission, Petrograd, Templewood Papers, Part II, File 1 (48), CUL.

8   Report No.2, Death of Rasputin, Lt-Col. Sir Samuel Hoare to C, 2 January 1917, Papers of the British Intelligence Mission, Petrograd, Templewood Papers, Part II, File 1 (50), CUL.

9  
The Fourth Seal
, Sir Samuel Hoare (Heinemann, 1930), p.156.

10 Report No.3. Further details obtained from the Examining Magistrates and other reliable sources, Lt-Col. Sir Samuel Hoare to C, 5 February 1917, Papers of the British Intelligence Mission, Petrograd, Templewood Papers, Part II, File 1 (20), CUL.

11
Tsaritsa i Rasputin,
I. Kovyl-Boybyl (Petrograd, 1917), interview between Kossorotov and Kovyl-Boybyl, a Petrograd journalist.

12 See note 10 above.

13 Report of the Autopsy on the body of Grigori Rasputin by Professor Kossorotov, 20 December 1916 (Museum of Political History, St Petersburg). Also reproduced in
Raspoutine est innocent
, Alain Roullier (France Europe Editions Livres, 1998), p.514ff.

14
The Fourth Seal
, Sir Samuel Hoare (Heinemann, 1930), p.156ff.

15 The
Times,
3 January 1917, p.8, col.d.

16
The Fourth Seal
, Sir Samuel Hoare (Heinemann, 1930), p.67ff.

17
The Russian Diary of an Englishman
, Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), (Heinemann, 1919), p.83.

18 Like her mother, a woman of many accomplishments. ‘Among her close friends were the Churchills, Maurice Baring, Arthur Rubinstein, J.M. Barrie, Rose Macaulay, Greta Garbo, Noël Coward, Jean Cocteau, Vita and Eddy Sackville-West and Hilaire Belloc (who was so fond of her that he wrote silly poems lauding her virtues).’
The Maugham-Duff Letters,
Loren R. Rothschild, the letters of W. Somerset Maugham to Lady Juliet Duff (Rasselas Press, 1982).

19 See note 17 above.

20
My Mission to Russia,
Vol. II, Rt Hon. Sir George Buchanan (Cassell & Co, 1923), p.43.

21
Ibid
.

22 Rt Hon. Sir George Buchanan,
ibid
., p.50ff. Also, The Buchanan Collection, GB 0159 Bu, University of Nottingham Library.

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HE
S
PIES
W
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C
AME INTO THE
C
OLD

1  
Memoirs of a British Agent,
R. H. Bruce Lockhart (Putnam, 1932), p.308ff.

2  
Ibid
.

3   He was a Foundation Scholar and Staffordshire County Scholar.

4   Letter from Oswald Rayner in Finland to parents, 19 February 1907 (Papers of Joyce Frankel, sister of Oswald Rayner).

5  
Ibid
., 19 February 1907.

6  
Ibid
., 18 April 1907.

7   Entry 186, Register of Births, Registration District of Paddington in the County of London, John Felix Hamilton Rayner, born 1 February 1924.

8   Letter to O. T. Rayner from C. F. Mobley-Bell (editor of the
Times
), 19 September 1910, Letter Book 55, No.814, Times Newspapers Ltd Archives, London; Letter to O. T. Rayner from C. F. Mobley-Bell, 22 September 1910, Letter Book 55, No.837, Times Newspapers Ltd Archives, London.

9   Memorandum on Censorship by Lt-Col. H. Vere Benet, 25 February 1917, Papers of the British Intelligence Mission, Petrograd, Templewood Papers, Part II, File 1 (29), CUL.

10 College Register, Evening Classes No.3, 1877–1895, Archive of King’s College, London.

11
www.steamindex.com
has the origins of the firm.

12 Matriculation Record of Stephen Alley, Ref R8/5/15/1, academic year 1894/5, Glasgow University Archive.