Images Felix Yusupov - Rasputin's murderer

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About how Rasputin was a stranger, he wrote:
"... I plowed hard and slept little, but, nevertheless in the heart of thought something might be found as people flee. I'll look at the example with the priests - no, all that something is not right, sings and reads briskly and loudly, as a man chops wood with an ax ... So I went to pilgrimage ... read the daily Gospel a little, read a bit, but thought better. Then another student to wear the chains of three years ... "

"... The temple is a refuge and that's a consolation, but then that as the clergy in general are not currently the spiritual life ... More than once I saw a drive where gathered in the name of the Lord lead the conversation ..."

"... I had a lot of visiting bishops, many I spoke with them, so strongly felt. Will you come with a broken heart and a humble heart - their doctrine is worthless, and listen to simple words of yours, because you do not come with an easy heart, but by the grace of God ... They are, though, and want to try and look for something, but you do not like a simple - words, that is in fear - this is where they freeze the mouth and they can not contradict.
So I've been in spiritual academies: in Kiev, in Moscow, Kazan and more in St. Petersburg.
At the present time, in such a turmoil in 1907 really not at all affected. And the Lord himself is not at all affected ...
Many, many things where I was: visited dignitaries and officers, and the princes even had Romanov generation to see and be a Gracious King. Everywhere We need training and humility and love ... but in fact something to get to high-level needs to be careful and prepared for anything, then the faith of your influence on them Lord with her beauty. They vstrepeschut and your simple word will be for the highest education, because they affect especially what not be described, that is the Lord Himself will affect his grace. "
"... I arrive in St. Petersburg. It is like a blind man on the road, and I'm in St. Petersburg. He came first in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery to worship the relics ... I came out of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, I asked some of Bishop Sergius Theological Academy. The police came, "what do you have one bishop, you're tough, man. By the grace of God ran back gate, found the porter with the porters. The doorman did me a favor, giving his neck, I stood before him on his knees, he is something special saw me and told the bishop, the bishop called me, I saw and now we have to talk then. He told me about St. Petersburg, acquainted with the streets and the rest, and then with a high-ranking governmental, and then came to the Heavens and the King, who did me a favor, saw me and gave money to the temple. "

Bishop Theophanes, who was rector of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, met with Rasputin in 1905.
He recalled: "For the first time Grigory Rasputin arrived in St. Petersburg in the winter during the Russian-Japanese War from the city of Kazan with the recommendation now deceased Chrysanth, vicar of the Kazan diocese. Rasputin stopped at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg Theological Academy rector of Bishop Sergius. Once he invited us to his tea and introduced me to the first, a few monks and students who came to him the man of God, or "Brother Gregory", as we then called Rasputin ...
He hit all of us psychological insight. His face was pale, his eyes extraordinarily insightful, kind Postnik. And made a strong impression.
At the time, is sailing squadron of Admiral Rozhdestvensky. Therefore, we asked Rasputin: "Fortunately there is her meeting with the Japanese?" Rasputin replied: "I feel my heart, disappear ... And that prediction came true later in the battle of Tsushima.
Students of the Academy, which he saw for the first time, right when he said - one that he would be a writer, another ... pointed to his illness, while a third said: "You're a simple soul, but this abuse your friends ...». After this incident Theophanes fully believed in the prophetic gift of Gregory. "In conversations revealed Rasputin did not book reading, and gained experience understanding of subtle spiritual experiences. And the vision that amounted to a revelation ... "

Grigory Rasputin was impressed by the Bishop of Saratov and Hermogenes. (It was he who drove out of the walls of the seminary Joseph Dzhugashvili, in March 1917 he became bishop of Tobolsk; killed by the Bolsheviks).