About Rasputin and his murder by British intelligence

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"As long as I live, the dynasty will live" is the famous prophecy of Grigori Rasputin, which, it must be said, came true. After his death in December 1916, literally two months later, the monarchy fell, and a year and a half later the royal family was killed. Even Rasputin's opponents later regretted his death, since he was a kind of lightning rod for the opposition, on whom the unsuccessful actions of the tsar could be stolen. And supposedly this would have saved the Russian Empire from collapse.

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Revolution in Russia, the overthrow of the Russian Empire and the rise of Soviet power. Chronicle of the cdrovs and a revolutionary song of that time.

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The execution of the Tsar's family and his servants by Soviet revolutionaries. An excerpt from the film The Tsaricide, 1991.

Rasputin is the mystical soul of Russia. Some considered him a saint, others - a charlatan, and his behavior and influence on the tsar are still debated, as well as his murder. Some believe that Rasputin was killed by Russian patriots in order to rid the monarchy of evil spirits. Among the murderers were Felix Yusupov, the husband of Nicholas II's niece, Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich, the Tsar's cousin, and deputy Vladimir Purishkevich.
But a century later, experts found the British trail of MI6, and much of what happened in those fateful years for Russia became clear. Great Britain declassified documents and no longer hides the fact that it organized the murder. Well, let's figure out what real influence he had on the country and what the true reason for his murder was.



Rasputin was a simple peasant from Siberia, the village of Pokrovsk and the Tobolsk province. He was born in 1869. In his youth, he lived a sinful life, drank, smoked, swore. A simple peasant, Grigory could neither read nor write.

At 28, he married Paraskeva and somewhere there, in a hangover and fights, the drunkard Rasputin will be reborn: "I lived in the "world" until I was 28, I loved what was in the world. But then I accepted God and Faith..."
Grigory is never at home, increasingly on the road to holy places. Rasputin walked and rode in passing carts many Siberian miles. And there, in the deep taiga, he will begin to have visions.
"Once I spent the night in a room with an icon of the Mother of God. I woke up at night, and the icon was crying: "I am crying for the sins of people. Go, purify people." Drunkard Rasputin quit drinking and became a man of Faith.

He traveled a lot to holy Orthodox places, even visited a holy place in Jerusalem, and in 1903 he reached St. Petersburg, where he quickly gained fame as a man of God. He was generally an ascetic, knew the Bible by heart, prayed for the weak, plus in general he was a charismatic person and he had a gift from God. There were cases when miracles of healing people were demonstrated where medicine was powerless. Thus, he healed the daughter of a high-ranking political figure.

Entering Natalia's room, Rasputin talked to her and prayed over her. Leaving the room, the elder stopped at the door and said: "Don't worry, everything will be fine."

Natalia was not operated on. The girl's legs began to return to normal. Anna Vyrubova, a lady-in-waiting and beloved friend of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, a great admirer of Rasputin, later wrote in her memoirs:

After the explosion at the dacha, the late Stolypin called Rasputin to his injured daughter, and he allegedly prayed over her, and she recovered.

Some contemporaries, like Vyrubova, believed that it was Rasputin's prayers that helped Natalia. But many still believed that Stolypin’s daughter recovered solely thanks to the skill of the doctors.

It is important to know that by the end of the 19th century, various teachings contrary to Orthodoxy appeared in Russia, infecting even the highest circles. Rasputin fought against heresy and preached the truth of Orthodoxy. And in 1905, Rasputin was introduced to the royal family. It was a difficult time then, strikes, protests, and the smell of revolution. It was at that moment that a simple Siberian peasant managed to impress the royal couple. They believed in her holiness of Rasputin and in his power of prayer. This especially concerned Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. She had been very devout since childhood. And the whole point is that Nicholas II and Alexandra had daughters one after another. But the main thing that the Emperor's wife must do is give birth to an heir to the throne. So all that was left was to hope for a miracle. And a miracle happened. In 1904, a boy named Alexei was born. But there was another problem. He was terminally ill with hemophilia. This is when the blood does not clot, that is, it runs and runs. Any injury led to hemorrhages, hematomas formed, and Alexei suffered greatly. Several times during his short life, he was on the verge of death, but Rasputin managed to save the heir from suffering, which is why he was left at court. He said a prayer to God and the blood from the injury stopped flowing. Not only eyewitnesses, but also some doctors point out that Rasputin really had inexplicable abilities. In particular, this is what neurophysiologist Natalia Bekhtereva, the granddaughter of the famous psychiatrist, says. This is possible if a person uses his brain by 50% or more. Just imagine, the future of the Russian dynasty lay in a sick Tsarevich. Medicine was powerless. The heir was even assigned a huge sailor who carried him in his arms to avoid injury. Therefore, anyone who could ease his suffering was welcomed by the royal family. And Rasputin took the place of the Romanovs' household saint. The empress herself needed his help. According to the psychiatrist Vladimir Bekhterev, she suffered from severe seizures. And she only felt better in Rasputin's presence. He influenced her somehow psychologically. Friends, further we will talk about the predictions of Grigory Rasputin, which, you will be surprised, often came true. Well, as an example, here are his predictions about the loss of moral values. When times approach the abyss, man's love for man will turn into a dry plant. In the desert of those times, only two plants will grow. The plant of profit and the plant of vanity. But the flowers of these plants can be mistaken for the flowers of love. Indeed, it was a dream. Today, the flowers of love are no longer the same. Rasputin gradually began to expand his influence and make predictions, and then give political advice. By the way, what Rasputin predicted came true. Among them was the terrible fate of the Romanovs, and the revolution, and the siege of Leningrad. He saw the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from an unknown fire and man's flight into space. It sounds fantastic, of course, and many believe that these prophecies were made up by journalists. But in fact, they are in Rasputin's book. Pious reflections. In the letters of the royal family and the memoirs of the tsar's friend Vyrubyvaya. Rasputin was listened to both in politics and in the military sphere. He became a kind of core in the state machine of the empire. Over time, even ministers were appointed only with his approval. The liberal opposition said that his scribbles meant no less than a letter from the tsar himself. Here it is necessary to know that when Rasputin came to St. Petersburg, the monarchy was suffering a defeat. The State Duma was formed, in which both peasants and workers were represented, and not just aristocrats and bourgeoisie, but the Russian peasant could not have direct access to the tsar.

And suddenly a real representative of the people from Siberia, who had walked half the country on foot, appeared at court, some kind of incomprehensible mystical, mysterious. It is not surprising that Rasputin was not liked, or, to put it simply, envied. Various government bigwigs were infuriated that some dirty man, in quotes dirty, was walking around the court and giving advice. A real persecution was launched against Rasputin. He was accused of drunkenness, debauchery, sectarianism, of handing out positions for bribes. And later they spread rumors that he was the Empress's lover and that they were working together for Germany. And this dirty propaganda was a sure bet no matter what the outcome. Either the Tsar would remove the adviser from himself, or he would get dirty himself if he kept him. And it must be said, the slander achieved its goal. High society, officers, part of the Romanov family, Duma activists, they all believed that Rasputin was ruining Russia.
But not the royal family. And here we should not think that Nicholas II blindly believed the elder. Rasputin was under surveillance. On the one hand, he was guarded, and on the other, they were collecting compromising evidence. A commission went to his homeland to study his past. That is, the tsar knew this man well, whom he allowed into his family. Many historians say that a double was created to denigrate Rasputin. And he did all sorts of terrible sinful things. He got drunk in taverns, danced, threw orgies, walked around drunk without pants.
All this was leaked to the newspapers, which then trumpeted from every corner that Rasputin was a terrible person. His contemporaries, for example, the writer Tefi, spoke about the double. She was invited to meet him as a journalist, and she immediately suspected a trick, and Count Dmitry Grabe saw Rasputin in the house of the famous Prince Andronikov after he was killed. By the way, after the revolution, the Provisional Government created a commission that investigated the life of the elder.
She needed to find facts of his depravity to show how worthless the emperor was, who danced to Rasputin's duck. But they were never found. Investigator Rudnev wrote in his report, "A thorough and incessant investigation made me convinced how far the rumors were from the truth." That is, drunken orgies, bribes for passing a petition to the tsar and fornication with the empress - all this was fictitious. And Vyrubova, who was also credited with intimacy with Rasputin, turned out to be a virgin.
But during his lifetime, they molded a successful scandalous image from him, and it is also important that he specifically advised Nicholas II. Was it useful for the country or, on the contrary, led to destruction. And it is precisely by understanding this that we can understand why he was eliminated. In the end, the Anglo-Saxons (MASONS and ILLUMINATI) set themselves an immodest task - to establish world domination. The Anglo-Saxon elite was closely involved in this. Bankers led by the Rothschilds and some British officials. To do this, it was necessary to eliminate competitors, including Germany and Russia. And, of course, to seize their resources. The British themselves did not want to fight. The best way out was to pit enemies against each other. So the issue of organizing the First World War was acutely on the agenda. It began in 1914, but could have begun earlier.

In 1912, when Russia wanted to enter the Balkans, Rasputin begged Nicholas on his knees not to enter the war. Count Witte wrote in his memoirs, “He pointed out all the disastrous consequences of the European fire, and the hands of history turned differently. The war was averted, that is, a simple Russian peasant messed up all the cards. No war, no revolution, no fall of the monarchy. From then on, Rasputin became a target for British intelligence. But, as we know, the war nevertheless began according to a ready-made scenario. Conflict in the Balkans, Russia supports Serbia, Germany supports Austria, and off we go. And where was Rasputin? And Rasputin could not dissuade the Tsar, because he was dying, since an attempt was made on his life. And Nicholas himself was mercilessly pressured by the war party. This company united many Romanov princes, generals, the opposition and the big bourgeoisie, who planned to make good money from the war. From military orders. Later, Rasputin said that if he had not been in the hospital, then Papa, as he called Nicholas II, would not have started the war.
A certain Kheoniya Guseva attempted to assassinate Rasputin. She was declared mentally ill and sent to a mental hospital. But in 1917, the Minister of Justice of the Provisional Government, Kerensky, personally ordered the release of the criminal. Well, by the way, Kerensky was a Freemason, which he did not hide. What is also interesting is that Gavrila Prinzepp was a member of the Black Hand organization, which was also Masonic. Freemasons did the dirty work and protected everyone who could influence the conflict.
Rasputin hated the war and wanted it to end soon. And a very surprising fact. The State Archives contains a document from which it follows that he negotiated a separate peace with the Germans. And what is also quite interesting is that Nicholas II was not against this peace, but he was held back by the word given by the ally. That is, France and England. But neither the queen nor the heir gave their word. According to the document, it was decided to prepare a palace coup.
They planned that the tsar would abdicate, and his wife would become regent and conclude peace. Rasputin acted as the guarantor of this peace. It is interesting that Purishkevich and Yusupov, that is, Rasputin's killers, were to participate in the coup. And this means that the conspirators knew what was happening. Thus, it turns out that if Rasputin had not been killed, then in 10 days this event took place, and Russia would have declared neutrality, and Britain and France would have been left alone against the powerful German army. You can look at these facts in detail in the conversation between historians Shishkin and Andrei Fursov.
It is clear that the British could not allow this. The head of British intelligence Samuel Hoare wrote that they received so much money to carry out the murder that they had to tamp it into the safe with their feet. And they sent their agent Oswald Rayner to kill Rasputin. As for our conspirators, their motives were really purely patriotic. Not just patriotic, but morally hypocritical and mistaken, so to speak. They allegedly saved the tsar from an evil genius. Purishkevich also had a personal grudge. He hoped that Rasputin would offer him the post of Minister of Internal Affairs, but this did not happen. In fact, the British simply used the monarchists. They became not only murderers, but also traitors, participating in a foreign state's military operation. And it is very interesting how these guys are connected. Felix Yusupov comes from a very rich family. If there had been a Forbes list in Russia back then, the Yusupovs would definitely have been in first place. But Felix had one oddity.

He liked to dress in women's clothing. When his father found out about his son's preferences, he asked Rasputin to treat him. Rasputin treated him simply, put him on the floor and flogged him. It is clear that Felix did not like the old man very much. As it turned out, he also studied with Oswald Rayner at a British university. And they fell in love. Another conspirator is Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich. He knew about the huge role of Rasputin in the emperor's family, that he was saving the Tsarevich, but Felix Yusupov was more important to him, because he was more than just a friend. By the way, the Tsar and Tsarina wanted to marry the prince to one of their daughters, but Rasputin opened their eyes to the sexual tastes of Dmitry Pavlovich. And of course, after such news, there could be no talk of any wedding. So, in essence, the conspiracy against Rasputin was a conspiracy of homosexuals, organized by British intelligence.
And the monarchist Purishkevich, he was a real character, he was clearly not himself. For example, on May 1, in the Duma, he decorated his fly with a scarlet carnation and walked along the rows, mocking the left-wing deputies. Well, this destructive gang lured Rasputin to drink wine and began to implement their plan. They killed Rasputin for a long time, he was very tenacious. According to the stories of the conspirators themselves, first they tried to poison him, then shoot him, and eventually threw him off a bridge into the river.
Yusupov and Purishkevich shot at Rasputin, but it was the Briton who fired the third control shot into the forehead. After which they threw him into the water, the examination showed that Rasputin was still alive and choked on water.
A remarkable fact - in 1917, Reiner received the rank of captain. It seems, for a successful mission. Rasputin is accused of all sorts of sins, but he was certainly neither a traitor nor a deceiver of the royal family and lived a holy, righteous life. He protected the country from unrest as best he could. After his death, events developed rapidly. Less than a year had passed, and Lenin and Trotsky were already sitting in Smolensk. Rasputin's murder was only the first blow to the autocracy. And these blows were from the formal ally of the war - Great Britain. And these are only crumbs of the subversive work of the Anglo-Saxons against Russia that we know about.

The Murder of Rasputin

The first attempt on Rasputin's life occurred on July 29, 1914. He was stabbed in the stomach by the mentally ill Khionia Guseva, who was shouting, "I killed the Antichrist!" Witnesses said that the blow was so strong that "Grishka's guts came out." The wound was fatal, but Rasputin managed to pull through. There was another attempt on his life, but two years later, during the third attempt, he was less fortunate...


Rasputin's First Killer - Khionia Guseva

On the night of December 17, 1916, Prince Felix Yusupov, Grand Duke Dmitry Romanov and Deputy Purishkevich invited Grigory to the Yusupov Palace. There they treated him to wine and cakes generously flavored with potassium cyanide. To the horror of the killers, the poison had no effect on Rasputin. Scientists explain this precedent as follows: the sugar in the cakes could neutralize the cyanide.

Interesting fact: potassium cyanide crystals look very similar to sugar and have a faint smell of almonds. Once in the human body, they prevent cells from absorbing oxygen, which leads to instant death. The lethal dose of potassium cyanide for humans is about 1.7 milligrams per kilogram of weight.
When the attempt with potassium cyanide was unsuccessful, Yusupov shot Rasputin in the back with a revolver. While the conspirators were trying to get rid of the body, Grigory suddenly came to life, tore Yusupov's shoulder strap off his shoulder and ran out into the street. Here Purishkevich did not lose his head, and with three precise shots finally knocked the fugitive down. To be sure, he was beaten again, tied with a curtain and thrown into an ice hole in the Neva. An examination of the body, fished out three days later, showed the presence of water in the lungs. This suggests that even after the poisoning and severe injuries, having fallen into the waters of the Neva, Rasputin was still alive. Upon learning of her favorite's death, the Tsarina was furious and demanded that the murderers be shot on the spot, but, at the insistence of Nicholas II, they got off with just exile. The Tsar saw that the people praised the hapless murderers as deliverers from the "dark forces." After all, Rasputin was called a demon, a German spy, and even the Empress's lover! Moreover, Nicholas understood perfectly well that executing them would mean giving rise to a serious scandal in an already turbulent time.

Despite the above, the Romanovs remained loyal to Rasputin to the end, burying him in Tsarskoye Selo. Perhaps, with time, the Tsar would have given the matter a go, but two months later, Gregory's prediction came true: the February Revolution broke out and the monarchy fell.

On March 4, 1917, the Minister of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky, ordered Rasputin's body to be dug up and burned. In order not to disturb the people, the exhumation took place at night. According to eyewitnesses, the burning corpse was constantly trying to rise. This fact became another detail about Rasputin's superhuman strength. But it can be assumed that most likely the dead man moved because of the tendons contracting in the fire.


Rasputin's corpse fished out of the Neva

Holy Martyr Grigory Rasputin (New)

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Few know, and even fewer are ready to testify before God, that the open persecution of the Church, unprecedented in the history of mankind, accompanied by unprecedented robbery and extermination of the Russian people, began with a villainous ritual murder on the night of December 16-17, 1916, in the midst of the Great War, of a simple Siberian peasant, a man of God and a friend of the Tsar, Grigory Rasputin-Novy.

“You will be hated by all for My Name,” promised the Lord Jesus Christ to his chosen ones.

The villainous murder was preceded by unbridled slander and lies, the monstrous intensity of which cannot be explained if we do not take into account that the goal of its instigators was blasphemy against the entire Russian people [...] and ultimately against Christ Himself.

It is known that a criminal gives himself away – covering his tracks.

Today, after more than seventy years have passed, only a blind man would not understand that the murder and slander of a Russian peasant, whose only guilt was that he dared to be the closest adviser and Friend of the Tsar, has a mysterious ritual meaning.

Otherwise it is impossible to explain why the enemies of Russia to this day repeat this slander and lie with such persistence and consistency in all the periodicals under their control, trying to artificially stir up the anger that had long since cooled.

However, it would be wrong to think that the true nature and meaning of the crime was hidden from contemporaries. A threatening letter from one of the murderers, Rasputin F. F. Yusupov, is known, dated 1917, in which, among other things, the following is reported: “... the peasants even now,” writes the author of the letter, “are trying to find out the guilt of the peasant Grigory Rasputin, who was killed in your house contrary to all the customs of hospitality. Many leaders of the peasantry say that in the person of Rasputin the entire Russian peasantry has been symbolically thrown under the bridge, therefore they find it desirable to comprehensively illuminate this case, which is still a mystery to many. And if there is an opportunity to establish Rasputin’s innocence in anything, then the peasants intend to demand a trial of the murderers and accomplices.”

So, the ritual nature of the murder was obvious at the time even to ordinary peasants.

What is its meaning?

In the world-famous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" it is written: "We could fear the union of the goy's sighted power of the rulers with the blind power of the people, but we have taken all measures against such a possibility: between the two forces we have erected a wall in the form of mutual terror between them. Thus, the blind power of the people remains our support, and we, only we, will serve as its leader and, of course, direct it to our goal" (Protocol No. 9).

The meaning and purpose of the ritual murder of Grigory Rasputin consisted precisely in the separation at the mystical level of these two forces, which only in unity are capable of resisting the world-conquering satanic ambitions - the people and the tsar.

According to Russian Laws, all participants in the crime were subject to the highest court to which one of them was tried. The judge over persons of imperial blood was the Sovereign Emperor himself. Therefore, by involving Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich in complicity, the murderers appointed the Tsar himself as their judge, which supposedly was supposed to serve as a guarantee of not too severe punishment.

However, one can discern another motive in the actions of the criminals and the people who led them - the contrast in the ritual of royal blood and the blood of the people.

Ten days before his murder, Grigori Rasputin wrote a letter to the Tsar in scribbles, in which he bid farewell to the Tsar's Family, predicting that he would soon be killed and that he knew for sure that he would not see in the New Year of 1917 (according to the old style). He went on to say that if members of the Imperial Family took part in his murder, then in two years not a single member of the Imperial Family would remain alive on the territory of Russia. This last prediction came true in full. In 1919, Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, the last member of the Imperial Family still alive on the territory of Russia, was killed while imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress. In response to the intercession of the Grand Dukes who wrote to the Tsar regarding the murder of Rasputin, the Tsar, having expressed regret that the hands of the princes of the Imperial blood were stained with peasant blood, wrote: “No one has the right to engage in murder. I know that many people have troubled their consciences, since Dmitry Pavlovich was not the only one involved in this. I am surprised by your appeal to me. Nikolai.”

There is an interesting episode in the memoirs of V. M. Purishkevich. It turns out that on the day after the murder, Purishkevich found time to send V. A. Maklakov, the future minister of the provisional government, a telegram with the conditional text: “When will you arrive?”, which meant, as had been agreed in advance, that Rasputin had been killed.

Why was it so important to send this telegram to Maklakov, who was privy to the murder plans and approved of the actions of the conspirators? It is obvious that the telegram confirmed a detail of the murder that could not be found out from the newspapers, but which was an essential point in the further plans of the conspirators. In all likelihood, this was a notification that the murderers had performed a certain established ritual.

Let us figure out who the murderers were and how their recollections of the crime are depicted.

As is known, no official information appeared in the press about the results of the special investigation conducted under the direct supervision of the Minister of Internal Affairs A. D. Protopopov, one of the few people who remained loyal to the Tsar's Family until the end. All the investigative materials were placed at the disposal of the Tsar and, apparently, were destroyed by the Empress along with some other documents that seemed secret from the point of view of the Tsar's Family. Thus, the picture of the murder is drawn solely on the basis of the testimony of the participants in the murder themselves, and not made by them during the inquiry conducted in compliance with all the subtleties of investigative proceedings - confirmation of testimony by means of confrontations, evidence collected during the investigation, testimony of witnesses, etc. - but at large, when the criminals had every opportunity to coordinate their actions and cover up all traces. This alone already casts doubt on the reliability of their confessions, and the deliberate murder voluntarily assumed by the accomplices makes one suspect the concealment of some even more serious crime.

What was it? And where to look for traces?

In the first days after February, during a search in Tsarskoye Selo, verses were found, written by someone on the death of Rasputin and kept in the Empress's blotter:

Driven by a vulgar and wild crowd
a greedy pack crawling around the throne,
He hung his graying head forever
From the hands of an invisible Mason's tool.

The poems themselves are not very important, but they were written by a person who, apparently, was aware of the events.

It is known from the latest sources that V. A. Maklakov, the alleged instigator and organizer of the murder, was a highly initiated Mason.

F. F. Yusupov is sufficiently characterized by the fact that, already in exile, he negotiated with certain people in Russia, to whom he showed the place where the family diamonds were hidden, for which he received his half from them. It is worth considering what kind of people they were in Soviet Russia, who were interested in family jewels, understood the carat weight of diamonds, and what kind of connections did one have to have in order not to be afraid of being deceived by them?

Another participant in the murder, member of the State Duma V. M. Purishkevich, after the Bolsheviks came to power, was arrested and imprisoned in the transit penal prison "Kresty" in Petrograd, where he was in the privileged position of a stoker. On May 1, 1918, Purishkevich was amnestied and quietly moved to the south of Russia to the location of the White Army, where he died in Novorossiysk in 1920, allegedly from typhus.

One thing can be said with certainty: it was necessary to render a very big service to the new government, in order to deserve such a pardon despite his "past" as a Black Hundred member and one of the founders of the Union of the Russian People. However, Purishkevich still turned out to be an inconvenient figure, and did not have the necessary family ties, and he was quietly removed.

The personality of Dr. Lazavert deserves special attention, both because of the obscurity of his nationality, the clarification of which could shed additional light on the circumstances of Rasputin's murder, and because of the nature of his profession. In many recent cases of crimes that bore traces of a ritual, doctors were involved in one way or another.

So, how does the entire course of the crime appear according to the confessions of the participants in the murder themselves, and is it possible to attach any significance to the information reported by the murderers, which may turn out to be an ordinary forgery, fabricated in order to direct the investigation along a false path?

Taking into account the ritual nature of the murder, it should be emphasized that one of its main features is the flaunting of certain significant details of the ritual, which are, however, understandable only to the initiated, but cannot be accepted as evidence of the crime by any court in the secular world. For their meaning is comprehended spiritually. This feature of ritual murders allows the initiated, on the basis of the details reported by the murderers, to make a judgment that a ritual act took place. Let us follow these details.

According to a previously worked out plan of action, Rasputin was invited to dinner at the luxurious palace of Prince Yusupov on the Moika, known to all of Petrograd, where a basement room had been specially prepared and furnished for this purpose after renovation. It was decided to poison Rasputin, and poisoned wine and cakes were on the table when he arrived. After drinking several glasses of poisoned Madeira and eating several cakes with potassium cyanide, Rasputin felt unwell. A sluggish conversation continued between him and his poisoners. About half an hour passed. Yusupov went up to his office upstairs, where the rest of the conspirators were. After a short meeting, it was decided to shoot Rasputin, and Yusupov, hiding a revolver in his pocket, went downstairs and, leading Rasputin to the Crucifix, said to him: "Grigory Efimovich, it is time for you to atone for your sins." When Rasputin bent over the artistically executed ivory Crucifix to kiss it, Yusupov shot him in the back, in the area of ​​the heart. Rasputin fell, but there was no trace of blood. After a while, Yusupov bent down to feel Rasputin's pulse, and at the same time Rasputin, rising to his feet with the words: "Felix, Felix," grabbed him by the throat. With difficulty tearing himself away from Rasputin, Yusupov rushed upstairs to the conspirators. Having run up to the top landing, he turned around and saw that Rasputin was staggering toward the exit doors. At Yusupov's cry: "Rasputin is running away!" Purishkevich rushed in pursuit of him. The last scene took place outside, in the courtyard of the palace, where Purishkevich opened fire on Rasputin: out of four shots, two hit Rasputin - one bullet in the back, the other in the head. Rasputin fell at the gate, Yusupov ran up to him with a two-pound rubber weight and started hitting him on the head, on the temple. After that, Rasputin's body was loaded into a car and thrown into the river near the Krestovsky Bridge, and, as is known from the confessions of the killers, as an option it was supposed to take the body to the seaside and, having tied weights to it, bury it in the snow so that in the spring when the ice melted, the body would go under water.

Rasputin's clothes were burned in the stove of the hospital train commanded by Purishkevich. And in the courtyard of the Yusupov Palace, supposedly to explain the appearance of blood stains on the porch, a dog was shot.

These are the main twists and details of the murder as they are described by its participants.

Let's pay attention to the following details. First of all, it is striking that Rasputin's murder was committed near the Crucifix, which turned out to be in an incomprehensible place in a basement room intended for a party, the furnishing of which was finished in a hurry just a few hours before the crime that took place there.

Another detail, striking in its deliberateness, its fabrication to the case: the killed dog.

"Why was it necessary to kill it and under what circumstances did this murder of the animal occur?" - a correspondent of one of the Petrograd newspapers once asked. Let us also ask, what does a dead dog mean in Talmudic symbolism? The answer is known: the humiliated and killed Christ.

The burning of parts of the murdered man's clothes, the crushing of the temporal part of the skull, drowning or throwing him out into the snow - all these details of the crime also suggest its ritual nature.

It is no coincidence that Professor Kosorotov was invited to perform the autopsy - the same one who once proved his incorruptibility with an examination in the Beilis case. After he examined the corpse and noted the traces of wounds, the corpse was re-dressed in strict secrecy. The autopsy report was among those secret documents that were destroyed in the first days after February.

One can only guess why the Empress, who destroyed these documents, considered it best that the truth contained in them not come to light.

The body was placed in a coffin and buried under the altar in the chapel of St. Seraphim on the edge of the imperial park in the presence of the Tsar's Family.

The elder's funeral service was conducted by the vicar of Petrograd Bishop Isidore, who was dismissed by the chief prosecutor of the revolutionary Synod on March 5. The first thing that those who came to power tried to do after the February coup was to completely destroy the traces of their crime. Let us recall that Maklakov declared himself a minister, and Yusupov was under threat of trial.

The body of Rasputin, according to eyewitnesses, preserved incorruption and even emitting a certain subtle fragrance (which, however, the revolutionary press presented as a consequence of artificial mummification), was blasphemously removed from under the chapel and burned.

Here is how the French ambassador to Russia M. Paleologue, who at times tries to be truthful in his memoirs, describes this scene, according to rumors:

“Yesterday evening (i.e. March 22) Rasputin’s coffin was secretly transported from the Tsarskoye Selo chapel to the Pargolovo forest. There, in a clearing, several soldiers under the command of a sapper officer built a large fire of pine branches... Then they doused everything with kerosene and burned it. The burning lasted more than 6 hours, until dawn. Despite the icy wind, the tedious duration of the operation... several hundred peasants stood in crowds around the fire all night, fearful, motionless, watching in numb confusion the sacrilegious flames slowly devouring the martyred elder, the Friend of the Tsar and Tsarina, the man of God. When the flames had done their work, the soldiers collected the ashes and buried them under the snow.”

Thus, all traces of the crime, which in view of the upcoming trial could have played a decisive role in exposing the body, were destroyed. The description of the reburial and burning of the remains, which was all over the Petrograd press, takes up several pages. Of these, the following deserves attention: those interested in concealing the evidence did not dare to openly carry out the burning. For this, a stereotypical method of arousing the indignation of the masses was used. At first, it was decided to remove the coffin with Rasputin's remains from the chapel and rebury it, allegedly in order to "not desecrate" the holy place. But already on the way of the truck with the coffin, another force intervenes, which "does not like" the very idea of ​​burial, and a decision is made to burn the body, for which "the necessary supply of firewood and 2 poods of kerosene" are urgently delivered, as if prepared for this purpose in advance. Let us remember that cremation of corpses was completely alien to Orthodox Russia, where the first crematorium, after intensive revolutionary propaganda, was built only in 1918.

So, after the above-mentioned testimonies of the participants in the murder, in which significant confessions are mixed with no less eloquent omissions, it is logical to ask the question: what really happened in the basement of the mansion on the Moika on the night of December 16-17, 1916, which, on the one hand, entailed unusually frank and willing confessions of the participants in the event, and on the other, equally energetic covering up of traces?

Already on March 4, the Minister of Justice gave the order to close the case of Rasputin's murder. A general amnesty followed only on the 6th.

In all likelihood, the truth would never have been revealed if not for the existence of one source.

These are the memoirs of A. A. Vyrubova, the Empress's closest friend and confidant. The distinctive feature of these memoirs is that (and this is felt in every phrase) their author knows much more than he would like or for some reason considered it possible to tell.

Here is this episode, directly concerning the details of the murder.

"On the morning of the 19th," writes Vyrubova, "Protopopov reported that Rasputin's body had been found. The police, entering the Yusupov house the morning after the murder, came across a wide trail of blood at the entrance and on the stairs and signs that something unusual had happened here. In the yard they actually found a dead dog, but the wound "on the head could not have given such a quantity of blood... The entire police force in Petrograd was raised to its feet. First, Rasputin's galosh was found near the ice hole on Krestovsky Island, and then the divers came across the body: his arms and legs were entangled with a rope, he probably freed his right hand when he was thrown into the water, his fingers were folded into a cross. The body was transported to the Chesmenskaya almshouse, where an autopsy was performed. Despite the numerous gunshot wounds and the huge lacerated wound in his left side, made with a knife or spur, Grigory Efimovich was probably still alive when he was thrown into the ice hole, since his lungs were full of water..."

These are the details - the lacerated wound on his side and the huge amount of blood that flowed out (or was excised) - that are missing from the testimony of the killers. And it is precisely these details that give the whole picture of the murder a completely special ritual meaning.

Let us pose the question: what should the medical examination have confirmed first of all, for the production of which such a specialist familiar with the technique of ritual murders as Professor Kosorotov was needed?

First of all, was the lacerated wound on the side inflicted before or after the gunshot wounds? The answer with a sufficient degree of certainty can be predetermined, of course, before. And precisely for the simple reason that the shooting was opened in the courtyard of the mansion with the purpose of finishing off the victim who had escaped from the hands of the sadists.

But after this it would be quite appropriate to ask, what kind of monstrous method of reprisal against their victim did the murderers choose?

Only familiarization with the details of the ritual murders committed by Jews in Europe and Russia in the 19th-20th centuries - Velizh, Saratov, the Beilis case, etc. - will help to get closer to the answer. In the meantime, there is nothing left to do but make assumptions!

But how similar this death is - a prediction of the blessed end of the Royal Martyrs, who exactly repeated the mysterious mortal path of their Friend! The same descent into the sinister basement, the same corpse of a killed dog, thrown next to Their Honest Bodies, the same burning of bloody clothes, reburial and burning of bodies. And the same attempts by fanatics for almost 100 years now by all means and methods to hide, to obscure the picture of what happened at the scene of the murder, despite, it would seem, a sufficient number of testimonies and evidence that continues to remain unclear.

Why? We will answer categorically. Taking into account the ritual and mystical nature of the murder of the Tsar's Family, resulting from the totality of circumstances surrounding the murder, as well as the participation of fanatics of the Jewish tribe in the organization and execution of the murder, it can be stated that without a thorough study of the version of ritual murder and confirmation or refutation of this version by a carefully staged investigative experiment, the question of the murder of the Tsar's Family in the Ekaterinburg basement will always remain open. Too much that is mysterious and defies comprehension is revealed in this case!

So... Much in the life of the Tsar's Family was predicted by Rasputin. Rasputin repeatedly prophesied that with his death the reign of the Romanov dynasty would end. But there were other predictions. Pierre Gilliard, who was critical of Rasputin, tells about one of them in the following words in his diary:

“Having left on August 14 at 6 o’clock in the morning, on the evening of the 17th we arrived in Tyumen – at the railway station closest to Tobolsk. A few hours later we boarded the steamship “Rus”. The next day we sailed past the village – Rasputin’s birthplace, and the Family, gathered on the bridge, could contemplate the elder’s house, which stood out brightly among the huts. This event was not unexpected for them, since Rasputin had predicted it, and this confluence of circumstances seemed to confirm his prophetic words once again.”

We believe that the elder predicted to the Royal Martyrs the image of their saving death, which defeated the darkness of the demonic obsession that was gathering over Russia for many years to come.

Rasputin wrote to the Royal Family in one of the messages that have come down to us, as if preparing Them for some unknown at the time, but inevitable in the future trials, and his simple words, connected in the days of the glorious reign, when everything seemed to be filled with peace and prosperity, are imbued with an unusually deep prophetic meaning:

"I am calm, you will learn wisdom from me, and after that there will be various adversities, you will be ready only then, you will see and understand this."

And in November 1913, covertly and from afar foreshadowing the circumstances that would accompany Their honest death, the elder predicted the ten-year-old Tsarevich Alexei, not leaving without a hint the August Parents: "My dear little one! Look at God, what wounds He has. He endured for a time, and then became so strong and all-powerful - so you, my dear, so you will be cheerful and we will live and visit together. We will see each other soon." As the elder predicted - so it happened. "To live and visit together" - this is said about the commonality of earthly and posthumous fate, providentially and mysteriously connected the Royal Pilgrims and the holy fool wanderer, a simple Siberian peasant. We must always remember this inseparable connection that united the spiritual body of the Tsar and His people, according to which, where the Royal Martyrs are understood, Their Friend is invariably remembered.

They say that the Tsar's Children did not like Rasputin. Here is what A. A. Vyrubova writes in her memoirs about the Heir Tsarevich: "He defended and stood up for all his own. I remember how Their Majesties did not immediately decide to tell him about Rasputin's murder, but when they quietly told him, Alexei Nikolaevich burst into tears, burying his head in his hands. Then, turning to his father, he exclaimed angrily: "Really, papa, won't you punish them properly? After all, Stolypin's murderer was hanged!" The Tsar did not answer him."

And here is an excerpt from Olga Nikolaevna's diary, which accurately conveys the atmosphere of deep spiritual unity and empathy in which the Royal Family dwelt during the days of the predicted martyrdom of the elder they dearly loved and revered:

“Saturday. December 17th... We sat with Mom all day. Elder Gregory disappeared last night. They are looking for him everywhere. It is terribly difficult. We attended the all-night vigil here at home. In the evening Mom and Anya confessed. Lili Den was there. Dad wrote. We sat until almost 12. We all waited for the phone from Kalinin, etc. The four of us slept together. God help us. Sunday. December 18th. Mom and Anya took communion. She lives in our house, because Mom is afraid for her. Around 11 o’clock, the two of us were in the infirmary. There is very little to do. They are sorting things out, cleaning, etc. Kasyanov has been in town since yesterday. Dad had a military council yesterday, he was supposed to leave at 4:30. God help me, how difficult it is. Anya and Lili were there in the morning and during the day. We went for a walk with her and Titi. In the morning, wonderful, bright sun, sky. The frost was severe. We were all sitting together. May the Holy Lord protect and save us. Lili and Anya were drinking tea and will have dinner. P.N. had dinner and left at 10 o'clock. We only left after 11 o'clock. The mood was the worst. Tatyana and I slept with Mama. I was on Papa's bed and she was on the couch. It was cozier after all... Monday. December 19... As always, on the day of the Sign and to the infirmary. There was almost nothing to do. Kasyanov and I went to the living room and behind closed doors and without anyone around, I played, and he sang various new and beautiful songs. He was very, very nice. I went to give him some medicine, etc., and we played again. After 12 o'clock, after the bandages, we started playing flea, our usual game, and Kasyanov and I beat the lancers. We ate with Mama. It was finally agreed that Father Grigory must have been killed by Dmitry and thrown off the bridge near Krestovsky. He was found in the water. It is not worth writing about how hard it was. We sat and drank tea with Lili and Anya and all the time we felt Father Grigory with us...",

Enough has been said. But what was Rasputin's guilt, the proof of which the leaders of the peasant parties unsuccessfully demanded?

"I always regretted," writes A. Vyrubova in her memoirs, "that if Rasputin was considered guilty, he was not tried properly, with witnesses, etc. His murder is one of the darkest pages in the history of Russian society, and the question of his guilt remains unresolved." Let us add that time and people have not added light to his case.

One example. "Although Rasputin was constantly accused of debauchery," writes A. Vyrubova, "it seems strange that when the investigative commission began to operate after the revolution, there was not a single woman in Petrograd or in Russia who would come forward with accusations against him; information was taken from the records of the "guards" who were assigned to him." The investigator of the ChSK, A. F. Romanov, also tells about how such documents were fabricated in his note.

"Among the various papers taken during the search," he writes, "a photograph was found in the setting of a finished lunch or dinner - a table with the remains of food, half-filled glasses - Rasputin and some priest with some laughing women are depicted. Behind them are balalaika players. The impression is of a revelry in a private room. Upon closer examination of this photograph, it was discovered that two male figures were etched into it: one between Rasputin and a nurse standing next to him, and the other between the priest and a lady standing next to him. It turned out later that the photograph was taken in the Empress's infirmary after breakfast on the occasion of the opening. It seems that Colonel L. and another gentleman took Rasputin and the nurse by the arm, and the other took the priest and a lady, brought them into the dining room, tried to make them laugh, and a photographer invited in advance photographed them in this state. Then the initiators etched their images...”

Another “document” on which all pre- and post-revolutionary accusations against Rasputin were based, Iliodor’s book “The Holy Devil,” according to the same A. F. Romanov, was checked by the commission and turned out to be full of fiction; many telegrams that Iliodor cites in it were never actually sent. The check was made by telegram numbers, and in addition, the commission had at its disposal not only telegraph tapes, but even the originals of all the telegrams sent.

The myth of Rasputin’s love of money is debunked in a note written by another investigator of the ChSK, V. M. Rudnev, who was specifically involved in the Rasputan case and established the fact that after Rasputin’s death, not a penny of money was left, so that his children were forced to petition for the Highest allowance.

"Rasputin, constantly receiving money from petitioners for satisfying their petitions," writes Rudnev, "widely distributed this money to the needy and generally to the poor classes who approached him with any requests, even of a material nature."

It would be possible to expose the other accusations brought against the elder, but, in fact, it turns out that there is nothing more to expose. The ChSK did not find any guilt on Rasputin's part. Otherwise, it would have tried to trumpet it to the whole world.

But since Rasputin's guilt was not proven, we ask, why did the ChSK not refute the accusations brought against him?

To suggest an answer, we will cite just one episode from the same note by Rudnev, relating to A. A. Vyrubova. This woman, a former maid of honor and the Empress’s closest friend, the only one from the Tsar’s family’s inner circle who did not renounce the elder and wrote several pages in her book of memoirs in his defense, was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress after February on charges of almost high treason.

By God's providence, she, accused of all mortal sins, of the most vile debauchery, was destined to shame all her accusers. The fact is that this unfortunate woman, who married a man suffering from impotence and after some time separated from him, remained a virgin, which was confirmed by a medical examination carried out at the insistence of the ChSK. However, this fact did not convince anyone, just as the book of memoirs written by her has not convinced anyone to this day. The reason is clear: many, to whom the conscience did not give and to this day will not give peace, need a "scapegoat". Otherwise, you will not avoid church repentance. And this is what the envious person of salvation - the devil - fears most of all. Here is what investigator Rudnev, who had been observing his defendant for a long time and came to the inner necessity of refusing to participate in the work of the commission, which, under pressure from its chairman, was seeking charges against people close to the Tsar, reports about Vyrubova herself in his note.

“My assumptions about Vyrubova’s moral qualities, drawn from lengthy conversations with her in the Peter and Paul Fortress, in the arrest room and, finally, in the Winter Palace, where she appeared at my summons, were fully confirmed by her display of purely Christian forgiveness in relation to those from whom she had to endure much within the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress. And here it is necessary to note, - emphasizes Rudnev, - that I learned about this abuse of Vyrubova by the fortress guards not from her, but from her mother Taneeva, and only after that Vyrubova confirmed everything her mother had said, with amazing calm and good nature declaring: "They are not guilty, for they do not know what they are doing." To tell the truth, this gross abuse of Vyrubova by the prison guards, expressed in the form of spitting in her face, removing her clothes and underwear, accompanied by beatings on the face and other parts of the body of a sick woman who could barely move on crutches and threats to take the life of the "concubine of the Tsar and Grigory", prompted the investigative commission to transfer Vyrubova to the premises of the former Provincial Gendarme Administration." It seems there is nothing more to add. The righteous testify about the righteous. And the word of God testifies about them: "You will be hated by all for My Name's sake." But although the truth has been spoken, the world cannot contain it.

To give what we have said about the ritual-mystical nature of Rasputin's murder a broader meaning than that which the interested party imposes on the secular consciousness, we will add the following: when the news of the participation of Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich in the murder of Rasputin became the property of apostate Petrograd, many who considered themselves Christians rushed to the Kazan Cathedral, as the democratic press enthusiastically reported, to light candles before the image of the holy martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki. Thus, what the Lord said was fulfilled, promising His disciples: "the time will come when everyone who kills you will think that he is serving God" (John 16:2).

These words alone are enough to know that ritual murders are a thing that takes place in this “world lying in evil.”

But if we look even more closely at the intricacies of the events surrounding the ritual actions, we can see that even every seemingly insignificant detail has a special symbolic meaning. Whose hand, human, is this mysterious pattern woven by for the uninitiated?

Let us cite a diary entry made by the Tsar on December 21, 1916, the day of Rasputin's funeral: "The coffin with the body of the unforgettable Grigory, killed on the night of December 17 by monsters in the house of Y. Yusupov, was already lowered into the grave. Father Alexander Vasiliev served the litiya, after which we returned home. The weather was gray with 12° below zero. I went for a walk until the reports."

Why does the Tsar, who always expresses himself precisely, call Rasputin's murderers monsters here? Let's think about it. The word "monster" in Russian and Church Slavonic has two meanings: the first is a baby born prematurely, a miscarriage, a premature baby, the second is a villain, a person who deserves to be cast out of society.

As is known, Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich was born prematurely, his mother Grand Duke Alexandra Georgievna died from premature birth. What a literal co-existence of meanings!

But the Emperor uses the word "monster" in the plural. Who are they, the others? And why do they deserve this name?

V. A. Maklakov was Beilis's defense attorney at the trial, therefore all the subtleties of the ritual were well known to him. It was he who got the poison that was supposed to kill Rasputin. The fact that the poison did not work is a miracle! A horse dose of potassium cyanide was found in Rasputin's stomach during autopsy, although, as Gorky is reported to have said, laughing, that Maklakov gave Yusupov tooth powder instead of poison.

We are interested in something else: what symbolic, ritual significance does the poison mixed into the treat, which is offered to the man who is to be killed at the Crucifixion some time later, have? - The significance of the bile and vinegar given by the guards to the Crucified Christ. By involving the Roman soldiers in a sophisticated mockery of Christ, the Jews, directed by the devil, made the latter accomplices in their villainy, so that they too would suffer the same punishment as everyone else - being cast into the darkness of hell.

"After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. There was a vessel full of vinegar. The soldiers soaked a sponge in vinegar, put it on hyssop, and brought it to His mouth” (John 19:28-29).

As Saint Mark the Ascetic explains, “in mental hope and rejection of thoughts, a firmly believing and experienced mind becomes the food of Jesus, who said: My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent Me (John 4:34), who, according to the word of Paul, wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:4)”

Thus, offering vinegar mixed with gall instead of water to the Savior thirsty for a pure sacrifice, the Jews, in the deceit of their depraved mind, rejected the Salvation given to them.

It is known that all the New Testament events, in addition to the literal, had a deep symbolic, ritual meaning, “that what was said in the Scriptures might be fulfilled,” that is, they were performed in fulfillment of prophecies, so that they could be recognized and distinguished from similar events that did not have the sacred meaning contained in them.

The details of events that had a ritual-mystical nature, in which the clash of Good and Evil that was taking place is reflected face to face, have a similar meaning.

In this regard, the question of whether Rasputin was smart or not takes on a special place. That is, did his actions have some kind of symbolic meaning, presented in the form of God-imitating foolishness, or was everything in them meaningless and senseless?

As an answer, we will cite three testimonies.

First. Vyrubova and other people close to Rasputin claimed that Rasputin knew almost all of the Holy Scripture by heart. Let us add from our own Church Slavonic text!

Second. In one of the telegrams to the Tsar, informing about the desirability of appointing Archbishop Alexy as Exarch of Georgia and at the same time insisting on calling Bishop Barnabas to St. Petersburg, Rasputin expressed himself as follows (literal text): "Alexy to the Caucasus, to us - a blessing!" A play on words based on the translation of the Greek name Barnabas. This small detail unexpectedly exposes Rasputin's theological awareness.

And third. The memoirs of one of the Tsar's diplomats cite the following episode. While in France shortly before the beginning of the Great War, this diplomat met there with the famous Count Witte, the former Russian Prime Minister, and being interested in the latter's opinion that in Russia at the present time there is only one person capable of understanding the seriousness and drama of the situation, to the question of who this person was, he heard: Rasputin!

There are many similar examples that prove that Rasputin was not a "rude, cunning peasant", as the slanderers of Russia tried to present him.

It is important for us to establish one thing - even contemporaries assessed Rasputin's personality differently. And no human court, even the most biased, has yet said its word about him. Everything said about Rasputin is nothing more than an opinion or, as we now know, deliberate slander.

However, one voice, barely audible because of the howls of lies and peals of malice, but quite audible to a sensitive ear - the voice of the martyrs of the royal service, who through their unparalleled feat acquired grace and the gift of testifying to the Truth - this voice speaks of the righteousness of the man whose name has become a household word for the world - Grigory Rasputin.

And we cannot help but listen to this voice.

All-pervasive slander has attempted to devalue the final testimony of the saints in our eyes. There are well-known statements by some people far removed from the Royal Family, who said that during their exile the Royal Martyrs renounced Rasputin, realizing that they had been deceived by him. But time has refuted this lie as well. In the recently made public confession of one of the secret perpetrators of the Yekaterinburg lawlessness, the main murderer of the Tsar, Yankel Yurovsky, marked with a secret mystical brand (Yur - Lobnoye Mesto - Golgotha), there is a direct indication that at the moment of the death sacrament, amulets with the image of Rasputin were on the Honest Bodies of the Royal Passion-Bearers. Thus, the saints testified to the involvement of their Friend in their Heavenly Glory.

What should we do, those of little faith, blinded by our spiritual eyes and lacking direct vision, but demanding proof, just as those deprived of physical sight try to form pictures of events by smell, by sound, by the totality of changes taking place in the environment?

We have one path. The one chosen by the Most Reverend Hermogenes, who was a friend and then the most ardent persecutor of the elder, trusting in the slander brought against him. Enlightened by a miraculous sign, the bishop, in his words, spiritually completely reconciled with the elder Gregory and served requiems for him, both in exile in the Zhirovitsky Monastery, and later in the Tobolsk cathedra, where by God's Providence he was appointed after the revolution and where with his prayer and intercession he supported the imprisoned Royal Family.

The death of the bishop was also significant; the Bolsheviks drowned him in the Tura River, right near the village of Pokrovskoe, the elder's birthplace. The bishop's body was washed ashore by the waves and buried by the hands of local peasants in the village church built with the donations and labors of the once persecuted Bishop Gregory.

Such and similar things do not just happen, without edifying sinners.

We must remember that the murdered elder Gregory of blessed memory was an Orthodox Christian who participated in the sacraments of the Holy Church, and at the time of his death he was neither excommunicated nor under penance, and for this reason alone he is worthy of church commemoration and prayers for repose with the saints...

Let us do so. And may the Lord God enlighten and judge us all and reward each according to his deeds, to some glory, to some honor, and to others - casting down into the darkness of hell with Satan and his angels forever...




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Saint Nicholas II is canonized in Russia. Why he is a saint for Russia I will write in the next topic.