Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-27
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pf ignorant and reactionaTy ministers,
grating generals. corrupt officials,
court parasites. vasrant monks. mys-
tics and fortune tellers went down with
Il and were buried in its ruins.
The cxar. a reed shaken in the wind
hhe czarina. the empress dowager, the
Door little heir, Rasputin, Anna Fir-
buove. his sponsor at the court. leaves
In the current. They all went.
In the dead OF night group OF de-
iermined men. led by q DepheW-iH-laW
at the czar. murdered monk. and al
/ 3nost the next day the whole froto-
papoH-Sturmer gang was IN the loFt-
less OF Peter and Paul and the Roma
loff family was on its way 70 s'oerla.
(Rasputin, il Is true, was killed IN NO
MEMBER, and the revolution did NOT &c
sually occur until February, but three
laonths in the history OF nation ~
mn inconsider a BILE lapse of time
Truth About Killing of Rasputin.
The story Of the killing OF EaspUtin
has been published in this country.
and. in its main facts. accufat"lE. IN
some of its important details the pub
1ished stories are in error, ana | An
glad to be able to tell the facts as theS
were related by Prince Felix fussu-
poN. the man who fred the ssnot that
freed Russia.
Prince Yussupoff did not tell these
facts directly to me. He told them 70
Nus. Eneline Pankhurst. the EnsAsn
suEagTist, with whom he Is on terms
Rs warm friendship. ana gave hef per
mission to repeat them TO me. when
che did within an hour OF hearing them.
Prince YussupoF did not XIII Ras-
Jutin. as has been chars ed. because ,ne
monk had cast lasctvious eyes on ms
beautiful young wife. the Grand Ouch
.ss Irene Alexandrovna. At least ne
said nothing about her IN connscILon
with the affair, and 1t is certain that
she took no active part in it. she did
not lure the monk to the 1ussopoit pal.
ace on the fatal night. she couid not
have done SO because she was IN TIC
6rimea at the time
+; why Yussupof Shot Rasputin.
Prince Yussupof killed Rasputin be-
ause of the mans evil influence on the
car, his wife.s uncle and his worse IN
Huence on the czariua. The thing had
got beyond scandal. II had become I'M
bearable, and when evidence was pre-
scented to him that Rasputin was try
ing to influence the royal pair TO force
Russia into a separate peace with Ger
many, Prince Yussupof decided that
the time for Rssputin's death had come;
Rasputin had to die. He was invited
to Yussupofrs for dinner ana ne ac-
repted. Then he died.
4 / have often walked past that great.
beautiful. yellow palace on the Moika
Yussupon family, and tried to recon
struct the CHASTITY drama enacted there
on that November night Snow burylng
the black ice of the canal. shroud.ng
the street and silent houses, dimmins
the street lights, and in basement
room, a private retreat of the lord of
the palace, a young man sweating from
every shlvering pore and watching the
sinister monk eat and drink deadly
poison which affected him no more than
water.
Poison Wouldn't Do the Work.
They had fed one Of the poisoned cakes
to dog, just before they sent them
downstairs to be fed to Rasputin. and
tina dog died in few seconds. Rasputin
ate one and lived. Explain IT who can,
hut cease to wonder that the Russians
firmly believe that Rasputin was some
thing more than human.
Excusing himself on some pretext
Prince Yussupon went upstairs, where
The others waited-young Grand Duke
Michael and two or three other men,
and told them the incredible news.
When he went back he had a revolver
in his pocket He and the monk re-
sumed their conversation. and. in the
course of II, the prince invited Rasputin
to cross the room and look at an ikon,
or sacred picture. which hung on the
opposite wall. He looked. and the next
moment a revolver shot tore through
his side and he crumpled up on the
Aoor without groar. Prince Yussupofs
had shot him.
/. Dying, Monk Fights the Prince.
I The next thing was to get the body
cut Of the house. and this task was
policeman who had passed the house
At the moment when the shot was fred
rang a doorben and insisted on know
fng what had occurred. He was paci-
cd ND If he
out to get motor car. Prince Yus-
supoR went downstairs to guard the
body until the car came. Rasputin lay
motionless on the floor beneath the
the spot where he lay the monks body
shot up. the monks long arms lurched
forward and his powerful hands
reached and clawed for Yussupoff's
throat. Half mad with amusement and
horror. the young man tore himself
loose. leaving one Of the epaulets from
his uniform In the clawing hands.
Rushing with all his might to the
yeti ne 10 tho devil himself! We can
not kill him."
I'VE must kill himr they shrieked
IN return. and the whole band rushed
door Rasputin was crawling on hands
and knees up the stairs. His face was
diabolic. What followed does not make
pleasant reading. They tried to kill
MIN, Crawling tOW2f0 tn0Hl, using
every weapon they could grasp-re-
velvsrs. swords. dagEers, clubs. heavy
chairs. even their boots.
Threw Body In Hole In Ice.
They shot and beat him until he was
OouDS10Oa, but even then he did not die.
They tied his hands and feet, and. re-
f9nS6lass Of possible risk OF detection.
fhoy loaded the senssless body into =
motor car. drove to the Neva. = con-
Siderable distance. and threw tho still
neoashing thing into . hole in tho ice.
There Rasputin died.
No arrests followed the killing Of Ras-
known almost from tho first Rasputin's
family, with whom he lived in Petrograd,
knew where he went on his death night,
and when he did not return they tele-
phoned Tsarskoe Selo to ask IL he was
there. The royal family lived in the
AlexAadsr palace. at Tsarskoe. and Ras-
putin often visited them there But he
did not live at court, as many people seem
ms csarina. frightened half to death.
61nt for the Petrograd chief OF police and
410w in The policeman who had heard Q
Apyoiysr shot from the yellow palace on
d Noilra canal. The chief Of police
vent IN person to the YussupoY palace
end found II q shambles. Prince Felix
I'D 6esn 20 nearly Frustrated by the
ppsnfs Of The night-hs IL really little
more than q boy-that he had not even
IA the place cleaned
Ths pfipce at first refused to ten any
<klnG Of the affair and he steadfastly re-
fused to divulge tho names of the men
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