14 The Fourth Seal, Sir Samuel Hoare (Heinemann, 1930), p.156ff.
15 The Times, 3 January 1917, p.8, col.d.
16 The Fourth Seal, Sir Samuel Hoare (Heinemann, 1930), p.67ff.
17 The Russian Diary of an Englishman, Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), (Heinemann, 1919), p.83.
18 Like her mother, a woman of many accomplishments. ‘Among her close friends were the Churchills, Maurice Baring, Arthur Rubinstein, J.M. Barrie, Rose Macaulay, Greta Garbo, Noël Coward, Jean Cocteau, Vita and Eddy Sackville-West and Hilaire Belloc (who was so fond of her that he wrote silly poems lauding her virtues).’ The Maugham-Duff Letters, Loren R. Rothschild, the letters of W. Somerset Maugham to Lady Juliet Duff (Rasselas Press, 1982).
19 See note 17 above.
20 My Mission to Russia, Vol. II, Rt Hon. Sir George Buchanan (Cassell & Co, 1923), p.43.
21 Ibid.
22 Rt Hon. Sir George Buchanan, ibid., p.50ff. Also, The Buchanan Collection, GB 0159 Bu, University of Nottingham Library.
CHAPTER FOUR: THE SPIES WHO CAME INTO THE COLD
1 Memoirs of a British Agent, R. H. Bruce Lockhart (Putnam, 1932), p.308ff.
2 Ibid.
3 He was a Foundation Scholar and Staffordshire County Scholar.
4 Letter from Oswald Rayner in Finland to parents, 19 February 1907 (Papers of Joyce Frankel, sister of Oswald Rayner).
5 Ibid., 19 February 1907.
6 Ibid., 18 April 1907.
7 Entry 186, Register of Births, Registration District of Paddington in the County of London, John Felix Hamilton Rayner, born 1 February 1924.
8 Letter to O. T. Rayner from C. F. Mobley-Bell (editor of the Times), 19 September 1910, Letter Book 55, No.814, Times Newspapers Ltd Archives, London; Letter to O. T. Rayner from C. F. Mobley-Bell, 22 September 1910, Letter Book 55, No.837, Times Newspapers Ltd Archives, London.
9 Memorandum on Censorship by Lt-Col. H. Vere Benet, 25 February 1917, Papers of the British Intelligence Mission, Petrograd, Templewood Papers, Part II, File 1 (29), CUL.
10 College Register, Evening Classes No.3, 1877–1895, Archive of King’s College, London.
11 www.steamindex.com has the origins of the firm.
12 Matriculation Record of Stephen Alley, Ref R8/5/15/1, academic year 1894/5, Glasgow University Archive.
13 Memorandum – Biographical Details of Stephen Alley (The Alley Papers).
14 The Fourth Seal, Sir Samuel Hoare (Heinemann, 1930), p3ff.
15 Sir Samuel Hoare, ibid., p.29.
16 Rasputin, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.11ff.
17 The Mystery of Lord Kitchener’s Death, Donald MacCormick (Putman, 1959), p.91ff.
18 Source Records of the Great War, Vols I-VII, Charles F. Horne (editor), (National Alumni, 1923).
19 The Russian Diary of an Englishman, Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), (Heinemann, 1919), p.45.
20 Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), ibid., 28 August 1915, p.56.
21 Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), ibid., Letter to Lady Ripon, 5 September 1915.
22 Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), ibid., Letter to Lady Sarah Wilson at the Allied Forces Hospital, Boulogne, 22 August 1915.
23 My Mission to Russia, Vol. I, Rt Hon. Sir George Buchanan, p.250.
24 Lost Splendour, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1953), p.186.
25 The Russian Diary of an Englishman, Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), (Heinemann, 1919), Letter to Lady Juliet Duff, 17 October 1915.
26 My Mission to Russia, Vol. I, Rt Hon. Sir George Buchanan, p.250.
27 Petrograd, the City of Trouble, Meriel Buchanan (Collins, 1919), p.78.
28 Telegram from the Tsarina to the Tsar, 3 November 1915, Fond 640, GARF, Moscow.
CHAPTER FIVE: DARK FORCES
1 Rasputin, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.74ff.
2 Petrograd, the City of Trouble, Meriel Buchanan (Collins, 1919), p.67.
3 The Story of ST25, Sir Paul Dukes (Cassell & Co, 1938), p.16ff.
4 Rasputin: The Man Behind the Myth, Maria Rasputin & Patte Barham, p.10ff.
5 Rasputin, the Last Word, Edvard Radzinski (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p.25ff.
6 Marriage of Efim Yakovlevich Rasputin and Anna Vasilievna, 21 January 1862, Register of the Church of the Mother of God, Pokrovskoe, Fond 205, GATO.
7 Birth Registers, Church of the Mother of God, Pokrovskoe, Fond 205, GATO.
8 Ibid.
9 Pokrovskoe Censuses, Fond 177, State Archive of the Province of Tyumen GATO.
10 See note 4 above.
11 File of the Tobolsk Ecclesiastical Consistory – Charge made against Grigori Rasputin concerning the spreading of false teachings similar to those of the Khlysti, Fond 156, Tobolsk Branch of the State Archive of the Province of Tyumen (TFGATO).
12 Investigation of the assassination attempt on Grigori Rasputin in 1914, Fond 164, Tobolsk Branch of the State Archive of the Province of Tyumen (TFGATO).
13 Fond 164, GARF, Moscow.
14 Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1461, Schedule 1, Case 567, GARF, Moscow.
15 See note 9 above.
16 Rasputin i evrei, Aaron Simanovich (National Reklama, 1923), p.20.
17 Ibid.
18 See note 4 above.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
21 Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, GARF, Moscow.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
25 See note 4 above.
26 Ibid.
27 Thirteen Years at the Russian Court, Pierre Gilliard (Hutchinson, 1921), p.79.
28 Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, GARF, Moscow.
29 Ibid.
30 The Life and Times of Grigori Rasputin, Alex De Jonge (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982), p.51ff.
31 Ibid.
32 Dissolution of an Empire, Meriel Buchanan (John Murray, 1932), p.87.
33 Ibid.
34 Statement of Olga Lokhtina to investigator T.D. Rudnev, Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, Folios 100-4, 109-12, GARF, Moscow.
35 Ibid.
36 Ibid.
37 Diary of Tsar Nicholas II, 16 October 1906, Fond 601, GARF, Moscow.
38 Rasputin, the Last Word, Edvard Radzinski (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p.91.
39 Statement of Grigori Sazonov to investigator F. P. Simpson, Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, Folios 298-300, GARF, Moscow.
40 Rasputin, the Last Word, Edvard Radzinski (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p.134.