CONTENTS

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[1.]Rasputin Meets the Empress[1]
[2.]Rasputin Enters Tsarskoe-Selo[19]
[3.]The Potsdam Plot Develops[36]
[4.]The Murder of Stolypin[53]
[5.]The Power Behind the Throne[68]
[6.]Rasputin in Berlin[85]
[7.]Scandal and Blackmail[100]
[8.]Rasputin the Actual Tsar[116]
[9.]The Tragedy of Madame Svetchine[132]
[10.]Traitorous Work[148]
[11.]Poison Plots that Failed[163]
[12.]Rasputin and the Kaiser[180]
[13.]The "Perfume of Death"[197]
[14.]Miliukoff's Exposure[214]
[15.]The Traitors Denounced[229]

CHAPTER I

rasputin meets the empress

The Spanish author Yriarte wrote those very true words:

"Y ahora digo yo; llene un volumen
De disparates un Autor famoso,
Y si no alabaren, que me emplumen."

For those who do not read Spanish I would translate the passage as: