10 Rasputin, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.199.
11 This is one of many contradictory aspects of Yusupov’s story. Yusupov had twice visited the Golovinas when Rasputin was there, and their house was right next door to that of his in-laws. Admittedly these were both large mansions, but it would seem he was taking rather a risk that his own parents would soon know all about it. According to Yusupov, when Rasputin suggested mentioning Felix’s name to Vyrubova they both agreed that this wouldn’t be a good idea at all as it would get back to his family. Yusupov says that he knew Vyrubova would be suspicious.
12 Rasputin, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.112.
13 Yusupov, ibid., p.115.
14 Letter from Princess Irina Yusupova to Prince Felix Yusupov, 25 November 1916, Fond 1290, Russian State Archive of Early Acts, (RGADA), Moscow.
15 Letter from Prince Felix Yusupov to Princess Irina Yusupova, 27 November 1916, Fond 411, State Historical Museum (GIM), Moscow.
16 The Murder of Rasputin, V.M. Purishkevich, translated from the original Russian by Bella Costello, ed. Michael Shaw (Ardis Publishers, Ann Arbor, 1985), annex: correspondence between Maklakov and Paris publisher of 1923.
17 A pood weighs about 36lbs, i. e., well over 16 kilos.
18 See note 16 above.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
CHAPTER NINE: A ROOM IN THE BASEMENT
1 Police Department Report, 17 December 1917, CUL.
2 The author of the memorandum is unknown, although Stopford is the most likely. His book, published in 1919, did not appear under his own name, and if he was the author of the memorandum, he would not want his name to link the two publications.
3 ‘The True and Authentic Story of the Murder of Grigori Rasputin, As Recounted to Me on 6th June 1917, At Yalta by the Perpetrator’, The Russian Diary of an Englishman, Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), (Heinemann, 1919), p.83.
4 Report of the Autopsy of Grigori Rasputin, Professor Kossorotov, 20 December 1916, Museum of Political History, St Petersburg.
5 Rasputin, The Man Behind the Myth, Maria Rasputina & Patte Barham, p.231ff. According to Barham, a servant of Yusupov’s was one of the sources for what happened in the basement dining room. In an interview with the author on 21 February 2005, Maria Rasputina’s granddaughter, Laurence Huot-Soloviev, expressed the view that Barham had somewhat embellished her grandmother’s account.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid., and My Father, Maria Rasputina (Cassell & Co, 1934), p.111.
8 Ibid.
9 See note 4 above.
10 Rasputin, the Last Word, Edvard Radzinski (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p.477.
11 Ibid., p.482.
12 Ibid., p.480.
13 See note 4 above.
14 Ibid.
15 Rasputin, the Last Word, Edvard Radzinski (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p.482.
16 Professor Derrick Pounder, Senior Home Office Pathologist and Head of Forensic Medicine, University of Dundee, was commissioned by the author in February 2005 to carry out a review of the ballistics evidence and concluded the forehead wound was caused by an unjacketed bullet. The Browning pistol fires only jacketed bullets.
17 A revised edition, Rasputin: The History of the Crime, was published by Yauza, Moscow, in 2004.
18 Ibid., chapter 18.
19 A Watchman Makes His Rounds, Sir Samuel Hoare (unpublished 1959 memoir of Hoare’s time in Russia), p.72, Templewood Papers, Part II, File 1 (34), CUL.
20 The Fourth Seal, Sir Samuel Hoare (Heinemann, 1930), p.156.
CHAPTER TEN: ONCE UPON A TIME
1 Dnevnik,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.62.
2 Ibid., p.63.
3 Ibid., p.65.
4 Rasputin, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.133.
5 Ibid., p.134.
6 Ibid., p.138ff.
7 Dnevnik,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.80ff.
8 Rasputin, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.134/135.
9 Dnevnik,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.62/63.
10 Rasputin, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.135.
11 Dnevnik,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.65.
12 Rasputin, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.148.
13 Ibid., p.149.
14 Dnevnik,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.70–74.
15 Rasputin, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.149.
16 Dnevnik,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.70–74.
17 Ibid.
18 Rasputin, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.150.
19 Dnevnik, V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.75. For Yusupov’s June 1917 account see The Russian Diary of an Englishman, Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), (Heinemann, 1919), p.83.
20 Rasputin, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.153.
21 Dnevnik,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.79.
22 Ibid., p.81.
23 Rasputin, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.157/158.
24 Irina Yusupov v MGM 1933, Fanny Holtzman Papers, Series A, Sub-series 1, Box 16, Folders 5-10, American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio; Felix Yusupov v CBS 1965, Series A, Sub-series 1, Box 15, Folders 5-12, American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio. See also The Times Law Reports, Friday 17 August 1934, Vol. 1, p.581ff.
25 ‘The Assassination of Rasputin’, Source Records of the Great War, Stanislaus Lazovert, Vol.V, ed. Charles F. Horne (National Alumni, 1923), p.86.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid., p.87.
28 Lost Splendour, Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1953), p.228.
29 ‘The Assassination of Rasputin’, Stanislaus Lazovert, p.88.
30 Dnevnik,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.80ff.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: END OF THE ROAD
1 Report of Autopsy on the Body of Grigori Rasputin by Professor Kossorotov, 20 December 1916, Museum of Political History, St Petersburg.
2 My Father, Maria Rasputina (Cassell & Co, 1934), p.111.
3 The Yusupov Palace, Galina Sveshnikova, p.75.
4 Report by Professor Derrick Pounder, Senior Home Office Pathologist and Head of Forensic Medicine, University of Dundee, August 2004, commissioned by the author.
5 Dnevnik, V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.21.
6 See note 1 above.
7 Statement by Stepan Beletski to Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, GARF, Moscow.