It happened when Rasputin was returning from the church. A woman was waiting for him at the gate of the house. She begged for alms and, while Rasputin was getting money, she pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the stomach. All Russian newspapers wrote about what happened on the front pages.

In the Tobolsk archive there are three volumes of the investigative file - "On the attempted murder of a peasant Grigory Efimovich Rasputin." There is evidence of the assassin: “On June 29, after dinner ... I saw walking ... Grigory Rasputin ... I had a dagger with a scabbard tied under my skirt ... and I pulled it out through a hole in my blouse ... Once with this stabbed in the stomach with a dagger. After that, Rasputin ran away from me, I rushed after him ... to inflict a mortal blow on him. So they ran along the houses, past the numb crowd - a small woman, brandishing a dagger, and Rasputin, pressing his shirt over the wound. But she failed to strike a second time ... “He grabbed a shaft lying on the ground and hit me once on the head, which caused me to immediately fall to the ground ... It was daytime, and people came running who said:“ Let's kill her. .. and took the same shaft. I quickly got up and told the crowd, “Give me to the policeman. Don’t kill me.”... They tied my hands, took me to the volost administration, along the way... they kicked me, but didn’t beat me.”

She called herself Khionia Guseva, a resident of Tsaritsyn. This young woman had a terrible face with a sunken nose. Khionia explained: “I am a girl, I never had children, I did not suffer from syphilis ... I was spoiled by medicines, from the age of 13 my nose fell out from them.”

For several days Rasputin was between life and death. And all the admirers, and the Royal Family sent telegrams to him with a wish for recovery. Coming to his senses and learning that Chionia had come from Tsaritsyn, Rasputin announced: it was the Tsaritsyno monk Iliodor who sent him deadly greetings. But Guseva denied Iliodor's participation in the case, explaining her act by "her own decision": "I consider Grigory Efimovich Rasputin a false prophet and even the Antichrist ... I decided to kill Rasputin, imitating the holy prophet ... who stabbed 400 false prophets with a knife."

“During the interrogation,” the Novoe Vremya newspaper wrote, “Guseva expressed regret that she had not killed the old man ... Khionia Guseva, a beader by profession ... met Rasputin in 1910, when he visited the Balashevsky metochion in Tsaritsyn, where lived the nun Ksenia, a friend of Guseva.

Newspapers choked on romantic versions. According to one of them, Rasputin seduced Guseva when she was young and beautiful. According to another, Rasputin corrupted her friend, a young beauty, the nun Ksenia, during the “zeal”, and Guseva avenged her ... And although it soon became clear that Ksenia only saw Rasputin from a distance (and, by the way, she was very middle-aged), no one denied anything. Readers longed for "Rasputin stories", and as soon as the peasant got better, journalists broke into the Tyumen hospital where he was lying. The misfortune for some time reconciled with him part of the press. The tone of the newspapers for a short period became almost sympathetic. “Birzhevye Vedomosti” wrote: “He sat exhausted by illness, in a hospital gown, and told his experiences ... The general public does not know his thoughts, which he enters into a notebook almost every day ...” And the correspondent quoted: “It is a great thing to be with last hour of the patient. You will receive two rewards - you will visit a sick person, and at that time everything earthly will seem to you a deceit and a demon’s network ...

Guseva was sent to Tomsk, to a hospital for the mentally ill. This was the only possible solution - in order to prevent a scandalous litigation, which could once again raise a wave of hatred for Rasputin.

N. Verevkin, the then Deputy Minister of Justice, testified in Tom File: “Guseva was declared insane ... but this woman shouted:“ I am of sound mind and memory, I deliberately stabbed him with a knife ... She was placed in jail. to a psychiatric hospital... Then her relatives petitioned for her release in view of her recovery. But the Minister of Justice wrote a resolution: "The release should not follow until the patient's danger to others is completely eliminated."

So Guseva had to rot in the "psychiatric hospital". The revolution will free her.

Rasputin and the Jews. Memoirs of Grigory Rasputin's Personal Secretary [with photographs] Simanovich Aron

Assassination attempts on Rasputin

Assassination attempts on Rasputin

I was well aware of how much Rasputin was hated by his enemies, and I was constantly worried about his safety. It was clear to me that this peasant's unheard-of rise must lead to a tragic denouement. During Rasputin's night drinking, all sorts of misunderstandings and clashes often occurred. They always ended smoothly, but only because of the precautions I had already taken in advance.

For the protection of Rasputin, a special service was organized, subordinated to the head of the St. Petersburg security department, General Globachev. The house in which Rasputin lived was constantly guarded by police agents. When Rasputin left the apartment, he was always accompanied by security agents. They made reports about their observations, which were presented to the authorities. The protection of Rasputin was organized on the model of protection of members of the royal family.

Significant sums of money were allocated for protection. Only experienced and reliable agents were sent to the security service. I myself also tried not to lose sight of Rasputin. We met several times a day. If he was not at the palace or at Vyrubova's, I would visit him in the evenings as well. In addition, we often talked on the phone. Rasputin was constantly assassinated. The instigator of some of them was the monk Iliodor.

One morning we accompanied Rasputin home from a drinking bout at Villa Rode. On Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, several large logs of firewood were thrown in front of our car in order to cause a disaster. Fortunately, the driver had enough presence of mind and swerved the car to the side. At the same time, one peasant woman moved. The attackers fled. We called a policeman who was nearby, who overtook and arrested one of the attempted peasants.

We took the groaning peasant woman to the hospital. Rasputin calmed her down and gave her money. But her injuries were minor. The arrested named all his accomplices. They were all simple peasants from Tsaritsyn, the main stronghold of Iliodor. He persuaded them to assassinate, but they did not intend to take the life of the old man, but only to play a trick on him. Rasputin refused to prosecute them. From St. Petersburg they were sent to their homeland.

The second attempt was made on Rasputin shortly before the start of great war. Rasputin was then in his native village, Pokrovsky. Rasputin traveled annually in the summer to his homeland, and on that occasion he was accompanied by the journalist Davidson. Subsequently, I learned that this journalist allegedly knew about the alleged assassination attempt and was going to write sensational articles about the murder of Rasputin.

The dispute between Rasputin and Iliodor reached its highest tension at that time, and Iliodor again decided to take measures to forcibly eliminate his enemy. Guseva, also an acquaintance of Rasputin, a peasant woman with a sunken nose, belonged to Iliodor's admirers.

Guseva Khionia Kuzminichna

She received an order from Iliodor to kill Rasputin. She appeared in the village of Pokrovskoye even before Rasputin arrived there, often visited Rasputin's house and did not arouse the slightest suspicion. Once Rasputin received a telegram from Petersburg. He was used to tipping for the delivery of telegrams. This time the telegram was not given to him, but to one of the family members.

Rasputin asked if they had forgotten to give a tip, and, having received a negative answer, he hurried after the one who delivered the telegram. Guseva was waiting for him and approached him with the words: "Grigory Efimovich, give God for the sake of alms."

Rasputin began looking for a coin in his purse. At that moment, Guseva hit Rasputin in the stomach with a knife hidden under a scarf. Since Rasputin was wearing only a shirt, the knife easily pierced deep into the body. Seriously wounded, with his stomach open, Rasputin ran to the house. The intestines protruded through the wound, and he held them with his hands. Guseva ran after him, intending to hit him again.

But Rasputin was still able to pick up the log and use it to knock the knife out of Guseva's hands. Guseva was surrounded by people who came running to the screams and pretty beaten. Undoubtedly, lynching would have been arranged over her, but Rasputin asked for her. The wound turned out to be very dangerous. Doctors considered it a miracle that he survived. He used some healing herbs and attributed his healing exclusively to them.

Many in Petersburg were of the opinion that if Rasputin had been at the time of the declaration of war in Petersburg, he would have been able to prevent the war. Knowing Rasputin and the circumstances, I must fully adhere to this opinion. The king certainly followed his advice. Rasputin already at that time was an opponent of all wars. Delayed by his wound in Pokrovskoye, he telegraphed the tsar, in any case, to abandon the war.

But the telegram could not have had such an impact on the king as his personal presence. The declaration of war made Rasputin so excited that his wound reopened. He sent a second telegram to the tsar, in which he once again begged the tsar to give up the war, but it was too late.

Rasputin told me that after the Sarajevo assassination, he repeatedly pointed out to the tsar that it was not worth starting a war with Austria over Serbia. On this occasion, he even quarreled with the king.

You were born an unfortunate king, he told him excitedly. - The people have not yet forgotten the Khodyn catastrophe during the coronation and the disastrous war with Japan. We can't start new war. Pay them what you want. Give Austria 400 million, but not war. War will destroy us all.

Rasputin did not like the Balkan countries. During his visit to St. Petersburg in 1913, the Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand visited Rasputin. The reason for this was the refusal of Nicholas to accept Ferdinand. Rasputin secured a reception for him from the tsar.

But the results were not satisfactory. Rasputin told me that Ferdinand went home with a red nose. Ferdinand tried to influence Nicholas II by pointing out the possibility of a new Balkan war.

Rasputin was sure that there was no military danger. “As long as I am alive, I will not allow war,” he said.

This text is an introductory piece.

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Exactly 99 years ago, on Peter's Day in 1914, Grigory Rasputin was wounded in the distant Siberian village of Pokrovskoye. It was then that the unknown Syzran petty bourgeois Khioniya Kuzminichna Guseva went down in history.

When you think about the role of personality in history, you are often struck by the discrepancy between the scale of the personality itself and what it managed to do. And there is, perhaps, no more vivid illustration of these words than the fate of Khionia Guseva. Who now remembers this unfortunate illiterate woman with a face disfigured by illness? But it was she who was destined to pull the thread that untied the knot that held the world war for the time being.

Then this war will be called the First World War. 10 million people perished in its crucible, four empires - Russian, German, Austro-Hungarian and Turkish, all old world. You can’t even believe that all these grandiose events are somehow connected with the distant Siberian village of Pokrovskoye, on the street of which fate brought two people together: Grigory Efimovich Rasputin and Khioniya Kuzminichna Guseva.

Friend royal family peacefully walked to the post office, when a woman with a scarf wrapped around her face, who blocked his way, pulled out a dagger from under her clothes and struck a blow. The deed was done. Rasputin found himself between life and death for a long time, having fallen out of that big and terrible game that was then being played all over the world. So far only in diplomatic offices.

The situation was as serious as ever. Another political crisis erupted in the Balkans, caused by the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and the "war party" in Paris, St. Petersburg, Berlin, tried in every possible way not to miss this chance. Europe has long been divided into military blocs, accumulated mountains of weapons, formed aggressive plans and mutual claims. I needed a reason.

There have been many in the past half century. The world more than once found itself on the verge of war. But somehow it worked out. The rulers agreed and the "hawks" had to reluctantly retreat. This time the cards fell differently. Having already recovered, Rasputin often repeated: "If this damn woman had not stabbed me, there would not have been this war." Grigory Efimovich knew what he was talking about. His influence on royal family was huge. The supporters of the war also knew this. It was they who made sure that in the midst of the political crisis, Rasputin left for his native village. Perhaps they also stood behind those who, on a hot June day in 1914, directed the hand of Khionia Guseva.

Let us now leave big politics and turn to this woman who turned world history. As usual in such cases, her name is surrounded by an incredible number of legends and conjectures, at the same time, there is no reliable information. The person of Khionia Kuzminichna was too modest and inconspicuous.

The city of Syzran is indicated as the place of her birth. But this is not true. I have not been able to find a record of this in the local metric books. There is no information about the birth of Guseva's brothers and sisters either. Most likely, their family came from some village, somewhere in the 80s of the XIX century. Father Kuzma Alekseevich enrolled in the Syzran townspeople and settled beyond Krymza in the parish of the Intercession Church. Little Chionia spent her childhood there.

They say - a name, there is a sign. Who and why came up with the idea to name the girl exactly Khionia, which can be translated as snowy, frosty? Now they would say frostbitten ... Even in the family she was called Yefimiya, considering the church name too tricky. But the name given at birth fit her perfectly.

Later, when Guseva gets into all the newspapers and secret diplomatic reports, there will be no shortage of various versions of her biography. Up to the most romantic. They will write that former mistress Rasputina, who avenged her desecrated honor, a former prostitute who contracted syphilis and fell into religious mysticism on this basis. Medical examination will not leave anything from these versions. At 33, Khionia Guseva was a virgin and her turbulent past is just fiction.

The truth was what she herself told during interrogations and what the police protocols recorded. To this day, they are practically the only source of information about this woman.

“From the age of nine, I was treated with herbs, sublimate in wine for aches in my head and legs. I had no other diseases in early childhood, sunstroke it never happened to me, and I didn’t bruise my head until I lost consciousness. I lived with my father, I did not have much material need. I have never been pregnant, I have never given birth or breastfed a child. I did not suffer from syphilis. I was spoiled with drugs from the age of 13, which is why my nose fell on my face. This happened to me at the age of 13. I did not drink alcoholic beverages, except for medicines, I did not indulge in sexual excesses. I studied at the parish Sunday school, but did not complete the course at her own request.

In the Syzran archive, I could not find a single mention of the famous countrywoman. But, it was possible to learn something about her family. Family is like family. Brother Andrei, he was 15 years older than Khionia, apparently, he left home early. He married early and was widowed early, in 1891 he married a second time to the daughter of a priest. He married in the Kazan Cathedral and lived not far from it. The last time his name flashed in the lists of victims of the fire in 1906. According to the testimony of his sister, Andrey soon moved to Kostychi, where he worked at the station as a hairdresser. It would be possible not to remember him at all, if not for one circumstance. His daughter Maria in 1914 took for some reason an extract about her birth from the register of births. By itself, this fact does not contain any crime, but not everything is so simple in this story.

Soon two elder sisters Khionii Praskovya and Pelageya got married. The first for the good soldier of the border guard corps Fyodor Tuluzakov, the second for the tradesman Grigory Zavorotkov. Praskovya, apparently, soon moved with her husband to Tsaritsyn (present-day Volgograd), where she mastered the craft of a hatmaker. Khionia had the same profession, which suggests that after the death of her father, she also moved to her sister. In any case, at the beginning of the 20th century we meet our heroine in Tsaritsin. The disfigured face of the disease deprived her of any hope of arranging her personal life, and Chionia lived in a small community of single women who whiled away free time reading spiritual literature. So her whole life would have passed, if not for two events that inexorably led the modest seamstress to the tables of history. Hieromonk Iliodor and Chionia's sister Pelageya arrived in Tsaritsyn.

Iliodor was a remarkable person in every respect. A fiery orator, a skilled organizer, a man whose ambition could only compete with his unscrupulousness. He had already managed to become famous as one of the founders of the Black Hundred Union of the Russian People and an active fighter against the revolution. Sent by the authorities, frightened by the scope of his activities, to the provincial Tsaritsin Iliodor did not disappear here either. He gathered huge crowds of people, built a monastery, a temple, and even dug multi-tiered catacombs. The popularity was incredible. Followers followed him in a crowd, unquestioningly fulfilling any wish.

But this fiery tribune had a residence in the house of Praskovya Zavorotkova, Khionia's sister. She became a widow in 1904, after a fire she hung around in a small hut that stood on the very spot where the Crystal stadium is now located, and finally moved to her sisters in Tsaritsin. Together with daughter Maria. Why Iliodor settled with her, one can only guess. The elder did not shy away from the female sex, and Mary was just at the very time.

Khionia Guseva was declared insane and placed in a psychiatric hospital in Tomsk. True, not for long. Having barely come to power, the Minister of Justice personally Kerensky ordered her release, which the Tobolsk provincial commissar himself did. She was even given a special document, which read: “The bearer of this is Khionia Kuzminichna Guseva, released from custody, by order of the provisional government, who attempted to kill Rasputin.” After that, our heroine is finally lost in the darkness of history. Although the legends about her future fate enough has been written. Perhaps the most original are the memoirs of Iliodor himself about how Chionia arranged for him a meeting with Nicholas II, who was exiled to Siberia, and the fabrications of an emigre author who claimed that she brought the head of the murdered emperor to Moscow.

But there is one credible source. The proletarian magazine "Church and Revolution" for 1919 reported that five years after the assassination attempt on Grigory Rasputin, a certain woman stabbed Patriarch Tikhon on the steps of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. It was Pelageya Kuzminichna Guseva. The magazine mentioned that she was previously involved in the assassination attempt on Rasputin. Iliodor, already known to us, had a grudge against Tikhon.

He hid abroad for a long time, and after the revolution, when he returned, he actively collaborated with the Bolsheviks. And here's what's interesting. Even ordinary members of the Union of the Russian People were then shot without trial from the investigation, and one of its founders was greeted with open arms. But we care about something else.

While living abroad, Iliodor tried to blackmail the royal family by alluding to incriminating letters he had stolen from Rasputin. The mediator in the negotiations was a certain young girl, whose name was not mentioned. And just in 1914, when Iliodor fled across the cordon, the daughter of Pelageya Zavorotkova, Maria, came to Syzran to take an extract from the metric book about her birth. Among other things, such extracts were needed to obtain permission to travel abroad. At the same time, her cousin took such an extract. Were they going to the runaway hieromonk?

But that is another story…

9. Rasputin's personal secretary writes in his book about attempts on the "old man": “I was well aware of how much Rasputin was hated by his enemies, and I was in constant concern about his safety. It was clear to me that this peasant's unheard-of rise must lead to a tragic denouement. During Rasputin's night drinking, all sorts of misunderstandings and clashes often occurred. They always ended smoothly, but only because of the precautions I had already taken in advance. A special service was organized to protect Rasputin, subordinate to the boss Petersburg security department to General Globachev The house where Rasputin lived was constantly guarded by police agents. When Rasputin left the apartment, he was always accompanied by security agents. They made reports about their observations, which were presented to the authorities. The protection of Rasputin was organized on the model of protection of members of the royal family. Significant sums of money were allocated for protection. Only experienced and reliable agents were sent to the security service. I myself also tried not to lose sight of Rasputin. We met several times a day. If he was not at the palace or at Vyrubova's, I would visit him in the evenings as well. In addition, we often talked on the phone. Rasputin was constantly assassinated. The instigator of some of them was the monk Iliodor. One morning we accompanied Rasputin home from a drinking bout at Villa Rode. On Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, several large logs of firewood were thrown in front of our car in order to cause a disaster. Fortunately, the driver had enough presence of mind and swerved the car to the side. At the same time, one peasant woman moved. The attackers fled. We called a policeman who was nearby, who overtook and arrested one of the attempted peasants. We took the groaning peasant woman to the hospital. Rasputin calmed her down and gave her money. But her injuries were minor. The arrested named all his accomplices. They were all simple peasants from Tsaritsyn, the main stronghold of Iliodor. He persuaded them to assassinate, but they did not intend to take the life of the old man, but only to play a trick on him. Rasputin refused to prosecute them. From St. Petersburg they were sent to their homeland.

The second attempt was made on Rasputin shortly before the start of the great war. Rasputin was then in his native village, Pokrovsky. Rasputin traveled annually in the summer to his homeland, and on that occasion he was accompanied by the journalist Davidson. Subsequently, I learned that this journalist allegedly knew about the alleged assassination attempt and was going to write sensational articles about the murder of Rasputin. The dispute between Rasputin and Iliodor reached its highest tension at that time, and Iliodor again decided to take measures to forcibly eliminate his enemy. Guseva, also an acquaintance of Rasputin, a peasant woman with a sunken nose, belonged to Iliodor's admirers. She received an order from Iliodor to kill Rasputin. She appeared in the village of Pokrovskoye even before Rasputin arrived there, often visited Rasputin's house and did not arouse the slightest suspicion. Once Rasputin received a telegram from Petersburg. He was used to tipping for the delivery of telegrams. This time the telegram was not given to him, but to one of the family members. Rasputin asked if they had forgotten to give a tip, and, having received a negative answer, he hurried after the one who delivered the telegram. Guseva was waiting for him and approached him with the words: "Grigory Efimovich, give God for the sake of alms." Rasputin began looking for a coin in his purse. At that moment, Guseva hit Rasputin in the stomach with a knife hidden under a scarf. Since Rasputin was wearing only a shirt, the knife easily pierced deep into the body. Seriously wounded, with his stomach open, Rasputin ran to the house. The intestines protruded through the wound, and he held them with his hands. Guseva ran after him, intending to hit him again. But Rasputin was still able to pick up the log and use it to knock the knife out of Guseva's hands. Guseva was surrounded by people who came running to the screams and pretty beaten. Undoubtedly, lynching would have been arranged over her, but Rasputin asked for her. In her testimony to the investigation, she motivated her act by the fact that she considers Rasputin a false prophet, and even the Antichrist, and decided to make a "judgment of God" on him in order to kill Rasputin. In order to avoid high-profile scandals, Khionia Guseva, despite her confession that she deliberately attempted to assassinate Rasputin, was declared insane and sent to the Tomsk mental hospital. The wound turned out to be very dangerous. Doctors considered it a miracle that he survived. He used some healing herbs, and attributed his healing exclusively to them. Meanwhile, despite the fact that everything ended well for the "old man", this incident is of considerable historical significance, because if Rasputin had been in St. into the war against Germany, since he himself was strongly opposed to this.

Prologue of the First World War. Assassination attempt on Rasputin.
The summer of 1914 turned out to be hot not only climatically, but also politically. Natural disasters, droughts, fires... Troubled pre-war months. And on the political agenda of big European politics was the issue of organizing the First World War, to be quite precise, a large-scale German-Russian clash.

This Balkan conflict has been brewing for a long time. It remained to drag Russia into it. And suddenly an illiterate Siberian peasant, our countryman Grigory Rasputin, stood in the way. This is not an exaggeration. The memoirs of the three ministers wrote about this. Prime Minister Sergei Yulievich Witte writes: “In 1912, when Russia was ready to intervene in the Balkan conflict for the first time, Rasputin begged the sovereign on his knees not to do so. The man pointed out all the disastrous results for Russia of the European fire and the arrows of history turned differently. War has been averted."

Rasputin, according to the prime minister, played an important role in this. “Why wish harm to yourself and yours? - Rasputin said, - we must observe our national dignity, of course, but it is not appropriate to rattling weapons. “The whole world blasphemes Rasputin,” Witte says in an interview, “do you know that Rasputin saved us from the war in 12?”

How? How can a person who can hardly write his name and has no idea about foreign policy do anything like that? “And yet it is a fact,” objected Witte. Your words prove only one thing: you know Rasputin too little. His strength and secret lies precisely in the fact that he is not such a person as others. He's definitely not educated. You can think of him as you like, you can be his friend or foe, one thing must be recognized: he has strong will and natural intelligence, which would be the envy of many educated people.

And I can assure you that in a difficult time (in 1912), it was Rasputin who said the decisive word. Needless to say, he was not alone against the war...

His merit lies in the fact that among various currents he settled on the right one and managed to defend it with such force and with such success that his opinion became decisive. You are amazed that a person who barely knows how to write plays a role in solving such issues. But is this really the only inexplicable thing in his life? No, you cannot explain this person to yourself with the help of logic alone. What Rasputin does, no one else can do. He is a miracle incarnate. It must be reckoned with as a fact that exists.”

But the triggers of the First World War were already cocked, and the first shot was fired on March 16, 1914 in the editorial office of the Parisian newspaper Le Figaro. Was badly wounded Chief Editor newspaper Gaston Galmette, who died in the hospital. It was one of 3 assassinations that paved the way for World War I. The wife of Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, Henriette, shot. The goal is to stop the publication of compromising evidence on a pro-German spouse.

The case of Henrietta Cailliau then overshadowed for the French, and for many other Europeans, the approaching European catastrophe.

The second shot will be fired on June 15, 1914 in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. Because of him, in fact, the First World War. The heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who came to get acquainted with the newly acquired territories, was killed. He was a categorical opponent of the war with Russia. His murder served as a pretext for unleashing a European massacre. July 23 Austria-Hungary, stating that Serbia was behind the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, announces an ultimatum to her.

It is impossible not to write about the third shot. On July 31, 1914, on the eve of the announcement of mobilization, the leader of the French socialists, the staunch pacifist Jean Jaurès, was shot dead by the French nationalist Raoul Vilain. He urged the government to reach an understanding with Germany and prevent an impending war in Europe.

But the most surprising thing, probably, will be that an assassination attempt will also take place in a remote Siberian village, which is directly related to all these events.

On June 29, 1914, an attempt was made on Rasputin's life in the village of Pokrovsky. The peasant must be dead, so that, as in 1912, he would not keep Nikolai from a disastrous step. Rasputin's position on the issue of Russia's entry into the war is unshakable. He believes that there is no reason for the Russians to fight for foreign territories - there is a lot of their own land. Upon learning of the terrorist act in Sarajevo, Rasputin said; “What do you say, brother. Killed already, huh. You won’t return back, even cry, even howl. Do what you want, but the end is the same. Such is fate." He is categorically against war. But the war of compromising evidence has already begun. Half a month before the assassination attempt, articles appeared in the newspapers Stolichnaya Rumor and Russkiye Vedomosti with provocative headlines “Rasputin “expands the borders of Russia to the west”, “Prohibition of the meeting of Rasputinists”, where everything is turned out exactly the opposite. But the main thing still succeeded. Rasputin was not killed, but seriously wounded and removed from the sovereign for six months.

It all happened like this: on June 29, 1914, Rasputin left the gates of his house to send a telegram. A poorly dressed woman approached him and asked for alms. With the words “no need to bow,” as it is written in the protocol of interrogation, “Rasputin reached into his pocket for money, and at that moment, snatching a knife from under her tattered shawl, the woman would inflict a very serious wound on his stomach. This was no ordinary knife. “Double-edged, in the Caucasian type with a groove for blood flow 49.9 cm long,” writes investigator Amelchenko, who led this case. Pulling out the knife and holding the wound with his left hand, Rasputin rushes to run away from her, she picks up the knife from the ground and tries, having caught up with Rasputin, to stick the dagger in the back. The investigator draws a diagram of the assassination attempt, where the dotted line indicates how Rasputin wanted to hide from her in the alley. Neighbors, son Dmitry, jump out to the screams of a peasant, they tied her up, into a prison. But, despite all the criminality of this crime, she will never go to prison. During the investigation, it turns out that she is mentally unhealthy person. And she is assigned to the Tomsk Psychiatric Hospital.

It is surprising that, having come to power, Mr. Kerensky freed her from there. Although it was just a bourgeois of the Syzran province Khionia Kuzminichna Guseva. Draw your own conclusions gentlemen.

All the threads of this attempt were drawn to Rasputin's old acquaintance, Hieromonk Iliodor. Living at one time visiting Rasputin in the village of Pokrovsky, this man stole a letter from the empress from him, later dropped his rank, made claims to the Synod, writing a letter with his blood about renunciation of Orthodoxy, became a monk - defrocked, founding the New Galilee sect, declared himself the New Christ.

In general, a violent hieromonk, a kind of outrageous freak in a cassock, whose PR campaigns Dzhigurda himself would envy. His megalomania reached the point that at the religious meetings of the "New Galilee" he demanded from his adherents that he be called "Your Imperial Majesty". At the same time, an image of the crucifixion hung behind his back, on which, instead of Jesus, there was the face of Iliodor himself. The flock he fed was unquestioningly devoted to him. At the end of his meetings, he forced, after hanging a portrait of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, everyone in turn to spit in this portrait. The woman who attempted on Rasputin in 1914, Khionia Kuzminichna Guseva, was a member of this Iliodor sect, that is, she was only an instrument of this assassination. When the investigation began, Iliodor fled from Russia to Norway. When Rasputin was informed of the flight of Iliodor, he was very surprised, but then, laughing, said: “Is it really true that Sergei Trufanov fled? Isn't it true that he is the real culprit in the attempt on my life? So the court was afraid. Arrested, I thought ... "

In the early 1990s, the grandson of the rebellious monk Iliodor, Sergei Ivanovich Trufanov, was in our museum. A curious thing: Iliodor himself, having taken off his cassock, subsequently returning to Soviet Russia, worked at one time in the Cheka, one of his sons was an employee of the NKVD, and the grandson who came to our museum was a colonel in one of the special services. These are the dynasties...

As you understand, it was not at all an accidental and not at all simple attempt on the life of our fellow countryman Grigory Rasputin on the very eve of the First World War.

Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs VF Dzhunkovsky, well known for his provocations against Rasputin, repeatedly met with the infamous Iliodor. Back in 1911, the Moscow newspaper Kopeyka reported: “Yesterday Hieromonk Iliodor was with the governor V.F.

In this regard, the manuscript of Nikolai Stepanovich Batyushin, Major General General Staff Russian imperial army. His book The Secret military intelligence and the fight against it" served for a long time study guide for many intelligence agencies of the world.

There is information about the existence of an unknown manuscript of the general called "Counterintelligence against Rasputin." There is a high probability that, according to some information, it is in the hands of one of the private Western collectors. The last mention of the manuscript was recorded in a letter from the general himself, dated 1932.