Note 47 — Chapter XIV · POLITICAL TENSION—THE DEATH OF RASPUTIN
F. A. (Frederic Appleby) Holt translation
It really seems that a perverse fate intervened to protect Rasputin. One day the Czar was given a document in which the excesses of the staretz were set forth highly circumstantially. In reading it the Czar observed that on the day and hour at which one of the acts mentioned in the document were alleged to have taken place Rasputin had actually been at Tsarskoïe-Selo. Nothing more was required to convince the Czar that the whole report was simply a tissue of lies.