Indignant at Rasputin and the powerful prime minister. Although their position on the "Balkan Question" at many points, the intervention of Father Grigory "in politics was unbearable for Stolypin. Newspaper articles about the peasant in the palace undermined the prestige of the royal family, the fruits of dangerous rumors. Yes, and Stolypin repeatedly subjected to humiliation. As she wrote in her diary Bogdanovich: "About three weeks ago came with the report of Stolypin and waited for half an hour ... because the king was with his wife, who has sat in the bedroom this" Blazhko.
With the peasants, and not with him, Prime Minister, discussed the fate of the war in the Balkans! Stolypin and learned another word that could not disturb him. It turned out, his political rival, Witte has already established contact with Rasputin: A man comes to yesterday, now disgraced prime minister.
"I told him then:" Listen, why do you actually come to me? If you know about it, they will say that I've been looking through a rapprochement with the influential salons, but you say that you keep in touch with a menace to society "... Rasputin, invited me to talk very original and interesting views," - later recalled graph.
Meeting the king's favorite, with a liberal Witte, who in 1905 forced the king to grant a constitution, caused panic among the monarchists. Bogdanovich has noted in his diary: "Great danger is the fact that the" Blazhko "... sang with Witte Witte wants to regain power."
Stolypin reported that the man met not only with Witte. He has already participated in the discussion of candidates for top government posts - happy bride future chief procurator of the Synod!
And it was true. After all the trouble - with the investigation of Tobolsk consistory, with accusations of Theophanes, the activities of her sister Ella and her entourage - Alix was afraid that her enemies are using the synod to again accuse the elder in Khlystyism. And she decided to find loyal to Rasputin chief prosecutor.
At the beginning of this post discussed the candidacy of Vladimir Sabler. That's when Alix first decided to use an amazing method of "verification" candidate for the post: it was proekzamenovat "man of God". Given the special relationship "Our Friend" with the sky, he met the future head of the Synod was to the empress's quite logical.
The meeting took place, and Rasputin was able to see the full obedience to the candidate of "Father and Mother". And soon Sabler, a man with non-Russian name (he was from a family Russified Germans), to everyone's amazement put at the head of Russian church ...
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