The whole of Jewry in Russia had but one single goal: the fall of Jewry-
hostile Czarism, Emancipation and finally, the seizure of power. To
attain this goal the Jews played at different roles in the various classes
of society, in the different parties, in the Press, in public opinion, in the
economy, etc., in all of which these Jewish columns and divisions
naturally mutually supported one another and so proceeded together
according to one strategic plan. The Jews everywhere and at all times,
by the way, are accustomed to act following this recipe. By its very
nature, the task of penetrating the highest level of the Russian
aristocracy, the Czarist Court itself, was especially difficult. One Jew
succeeded in doing this – Aaron Simanovitch, who by means of
bribery, by establishing gaming clubs and as jeweler [107] found entré
into the Court circles and there unfolded his pernicious activities. This
one Jew achieved more for the destruction of the Romanov monarchy
and for the preparation of the Bolshevist Revolution than many of the
prominent Party Jews.
The instrument of his work of destruction was Rasputin. An enormous
literature, which sometimes makes him out to be a kind of saint,
sometimes a devil in the flesh, yet again a libertine, here as a miracle-
worker, there as a plain man of the people, again as an opportunist, has
come about in the entire world about this person. In any case, he is
imbued with the aura of mystery, he's romanticized with a mystical
power and he is considered to be one of the most interesting
personalities of pre-Revolutionary Russia. This view of Rasputin must
today be fundamentally revised and overturned.
Rasputin was actually little more than a corrupt and depraved subject,
who allied himself with Jewry – to be more exact, who sold himself to
the Jews – out of material motives, from the greed for power and
hatred against the nobility. Simanovitch himself describes the
"significance" of Rasputin in this way:
"Rasputin was one of the many clairvoyants and soothsayers with
whom the Czarist court teemed. These sort of people were sought for
all over Russia, and the relatives of the Czar took an active part in the
hunt for miracle-workers." (p.293-294)
Rasputin was apparently brought to Court by Simanovitch, who had
gotten to know him in Kiev (p. 33), and brought to the Princess
Orbeliani and the Lady-in-waiting to the Czarina, Anna Vyrubova, who
smoothed the way to the Czarina for Rasputin and who remained his
slave to the end. Simanovitch writes about this:
"And indeed, she was the first who intervened with her whole person
and with the expenditure of her every power and all of her influence at
Court for Rasputin. Every desire of Rasputin was law for Vyrubova.
She downright idolized him, and to her, the loyal intercessor between
him and the Imperial couple, Rasputin owed, to a great extent, his
unique position. He said of her, that she would follow him to the end of
the world, and she was actually his most devoted and compliant
agent
(2)."
Whether Vyrubova believed that she was "merely acting in the interest
of the Imperial couple and of the dynasty," as Simanovitch claims, or
whether she did not, rather, also take a very material [108] interest in
Rasputin and in Simanovitch over and above this, is not entirely clearly
establishable. In any case, Simanovitch reports (p. 211) that Vyrubova
frequently accepted "donations," indeed, that she also personally
received "valuable presents." Simanovitch writes verbatim: "Thus, Frau
Rubinstein gave her, for example, 50,000 Rubles, Frau Beinensohn 25,000 Rubels, the Banker Manus 200,000 Rubels, Nachimov 30,000 Rubels, Popov 10,000 Rubels. From me myself, Vyrubova received
various valuable diamonds, emeralds and precious silver flower vases."
That sounds rather incriminating. Protopopov, who, after making the
promise "to do something for the Jews," (p. 209) obtained from
Simanovitch, Rasputin and Vyrubova the post of Minister of the
Interior, likewise "donated" 100,000 Rubels for the military hospital
founded by Vyrubova – one of the usual bribery maneuvers during the
war period in Russia. Before his appointment, by the way, Simanovitch
redeemed the note of Protopopov at a profit of 150,000 Rubels. But not
without "Protopopov's promise to repay me this amount out of the
secret fund of the Ministry of the Interior after his appointment." (p.
211.)