The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-04-08


New York.-tBy Mail. a--To the in
fluence Of Gregory Rasputin. Siberian
monk and mystic. the former czar Of
Russia cap attribute the revolt which
has brought into being a new Russia.
Gregory Raspntinit is IA name that
Russian prosressives hate with the
utmost vigor. Rasputin is dead. a
victim of assassination, but the whir-
wind he sowed did not die with him.
The whitlwnd overturned a rock
ribbed dynasty that the efforts of
patriots had been unable to shake in
the slightest
The rock foundation of the Ro-
manoffs owes its disintcgration to the
teachings and rituals of Rasputin
the most powerful man in Russia in
recent years. the power behind the
throne" and the "confidant of the
czarina''
No one knows Rasputn better than
Ser9ius Michaelow Trufanoff who but
a few years ago as Iliador, the Mad
Monk Of Russia, was a factor himself
in Russian court affairs and who re-
Gently wrote a serial of his life for
the Jewish newspaper. the Wahrheit
Russia Before the "Deuee"
In his serial Iliador has drawn a
striking picture of the Russia before
the deluge." 1t is picture that de-
picts the deseneracy of the Russian
nf ba MI
people asking for food and justice, of
graft and license on every side. of a
czar-weak knecd. foolish, pitiful. the
tool of his sycophants, believer in mNs-
tieism-and in the center of this most
dramatic stage Of centuries stood Ras-
putin, the untutorcd. unkcmpt re
1igious mystic from Siberia who by
his hypnotic power over the car and
cZarina, was able to make and UNI
make ministers. laugh at the holy
synod. force Russia into war and all
but succeed in making a separate peace
with Germany.
I,iador. first favored by Rasputin,
discovered the real monster Rasputin
was and then fought him to the fin
ish. But Rusputin won, and Iliador
fled to this country.
Probably the most surprising thing
about the overturning of the Romanoff
dynasty was the ease with which it
was accomplished. But a peep behind
the scenes with llador into the court
life of the car into the degcneracy of
the mobiles, and to the czar himself, de
scribed by liador as IA man without a
tongue. nervous. weak. phlcgmatc
hardly able TO articulato. an abrupt
voice. emitting mufflcd sounds Xix,
: those from the grave, eyes dun, mist y
and filled with tears may help to ex,
plain. 1t was the French revolution
repeating itself.
Welded Terrible Influence.
For years the car had listened t.
the teachings" of religious mystic.
and the last and the greatest of thcs,
was Rasputn. iliador said he pos
scsscd almost hypnotic powers and this
power first eXerted itself on wome,
One of those first to fall under his in
fluence was the cZarina and the CA
soon Succumbed.
How strong the Influence of tn
mystics was on the car is illustrates
by the fact that Iliador relates tina
when his ministers had finished eivin
him their opinions of weighty matter
the mystics would sweep in and ge
the last moments of the ears atten
ton, often reversing all that the min
listers had said. Rasputin, the creates
of these, was able to use this weakness
to great personal advantage and man
efforts to overthrow him were defeate
by the car himself.
1t was shortly after Rasputin wa
introduced to court by the wife of
famous general tlxt III revolut te,l,'
sss;,. 'e RI; .s s':s:; ssaE,t
the populace. prepared to Fee Ra,
putin. however, presented such fir
front that the car again took hea