Sergei Fomin. "Grigory Rasputin. Investigation". Orthodox writer - historian sergei vladimirovich fomin was awarded the order of the holy passion-bearer tsar nicholas

October 6, 2016 on the day of the conception of the honest, glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John and the Glorification of St. Innocent, Met. Moscow (1977). Head of the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers, Chairman of the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods Leonid Donatovich Simonovich-Nikshich with his brothers and Deputy Chairman of the Award Committee of the International Award of Public Recognition "Glory to Russia", Head of the Orthodox Troops Mission Igor Evgenievich Smykov visited the famous Orthodox writer - historian, hagiichographer Fomin, known in Orthodox circles for his collection of the prophecies of saints and Orthodox thinkers "Russia before the Second Coming."

By the decision of the Award Committee of the International Public Recognition Award "Glory to Russia", Deputy Chairman of the Award Committee, Head of the Military Orthodox Mission Igor Evgenievich Smykov presented the Order of the Holy Passion-Bearer Tsar Nikolai to Sergei Vladimirovich Fomin.

The prominent Orthodox writer-historian was awarded a high international Orthodox-monarchical award for many years of hard work for the glory of the Russian Orthodox Church, loyalty to the historical traditions of the Russian Imperial State, and in connection with the 400th anniversary of the accession of the House of Romanov to Russia.

The Order of the Holy Passion-Bearer Tsar Nicholas is a particularly significant international church-social award.

Among the Knights of the Order are His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Metropolitan Barsonuphius of St. , Schema-Archimandrite Fr. Iliy (Nozdrin), His Royal Highness Crown Prince of Yugoslavia Alexander II Karageorgievich, great-grandson of Archduke Franz Ferdinand His Serene Highness Prince Leo von Hohenberg, world famous filmmakers Emir Kusturica and Nikita Mikhalkov, People's Artist of Russia Alexander Mikhailov, Orthodox historians and writers Alexander Boris Yuri Vorobyevsky, Peter Multatuli, other prominent patriots of Russia, heads of foreign states.

The jubilee medal "In memory of the Great War" - "For many years of missionary and educational work, love for God, loyalty to the Tsar and the Fatherland" was awarded to the wife of the writer Tamara Ivanovna Fomina.

The award ceremony took place after a prayer in front of the revered shrine of the Russian Orthodox world - the Miraculous myrrh-streaming icon of Tsar Nicholas II.

This miraculous shrine has been traveling for many years to different dioceses and Orthodox parishes of Russia, near and far abroad, bringing healing and God's help to people who turn with prayer to God and the Passion-Bearer Tsar.

The prototype of the Moscow myrrh-streaming icon of the Tsar-Martyr was painted in 1996 in the USA, in California by the icon painter Pavel Tikhomirov at the request of representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. The sovereign is depicted in sacred coronation robes, with a cross on his chest and signs of royal dignity - with a scepter and orb in his hands. In the upper corners of the icon there are hallmarks with images of the holy righteous Job the Long-suffering, on whose memory the Tsar was born on May 6/19, 1868, and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, in whose honor He was baptized. At the bottom there is a signature: "This holy icon was written for the glorification of the Tsar-Martyr in Russia." The icon has a solemn and festive look.

In 1997, color lithographs of this icon were brought from the United States to Russia and dispersed among Orthodox parishes and families. One of them, donated to a Moscow doctor - surgeon Oleg Ivanovich Belchenko, exuded myrrh on the day of the anniversary October coup, November 7, 1998. From that time on, fragrant myrrh began to flow daily from the image. The fragrance and myrrh-streaming of the icon is especially strong on the memorable days of the Royal Family. Miro often flows not only from the icon, but also over the glass of the icon case.

In the 1990s, the icon of the Sovereign, who was not yet canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church, was brought to many churches with the blessing of three elders - the confessor of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov), Archpriest Nikolai Guryanov from the island of Zalit and the Valaam elder hieroschemamonk) Raphael (Berestov).

The popular veneration of the Tsar-Martyr prepared the canonization of the Royal Family in the face of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia at the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church on August 20, 2000 in the revived Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow and facilitated the process of reunification of the two parts of the Russian Church - the ROC and the ROCOR in May 2007 ...

V last years the icon remains in Russia and is kept by representatives of the Military Orthodox Mission.

The icon was brought to more than fifty dioceses and a number of countries - Germany, Austria, Serbia, France, Montenegro, Greece. The holy image abundantly exudes myrrh through the prayers of the faithful about the Fatherland, about the Russian people in Russia and the diaspora, healings of people from various ailments, oncological diseases and the resolution of difficult life situations are associated with it.

On May 9, 2016, this icon was entrusted to carry the Crimean Prosecutor Natalya Vladimirovna Poklonskaya in the procession in the ranks “ Immortal Regiment"In the city of Simferopol.

When presenting the Order of the Sovereign, Igor Smykov, in particular, said:

- “Dear Sergey Vladimirovich! Today we present you with the Order of the Holy Passion-Bearer Tsar Nicholas. This is not an easy, but spiritually mystical reward, a kind of visible earthly sign of belonging to the Order of the King - Martyr.

In 1994 your "Russia before the Second Coming" fell into my hands. I read it avidly, thoughtfully reread it many times. This work of yours has become my reference book for many years.

I have read almost all of your books and am a sincere reader of yours.

I sincerely thank you on my own behalf and on behalf of many of your readers for your labors in the Tsar's field, your contribution to the revival of the Orthodox-monarchical self-consciousness of the Russian people is enormous, and perhaps it will be appreciated more in the coming Tsarist Russia.

We will entrust in the restoration of the Russian Orthodox Autocratic Monarchy in Russia, according to the prophecies and predictions of the saints, until the end of the penance to the Russian people and when the will of the Lord God will be for that.

Special thanks to you for your works about the Tsar's Friend Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, slandered and killed by the primordial enemies of Orthodoxy and Russia. "

The head of the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers also congratulated Sergei Vladimirovich Fomin on the high Orthodox - monarchical award, noting his enormous contribution to the Tsar's Cause.

Sergei Fomin warmly thanked the Rewards Committee for his award, giving a speech in which he spoke about his difficult life path and creativity, difficult fate books written by him, about the elders Archpriest Nikolai Guryanov and Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov), who blessed him for his labors.

The official part ended with a dinner, which was held in a warm and friendly atmosphere.

OUR REFERENCE:

Sergey Vladimirovich Fomin
(November 24, 1951)
Russian Orthodox writer, historian, publicist. Graduated from the history faculty of Moscow State University in 1980.

He began in the 1980s as a local historian and Pushkin scholar (publications and research on the “Chisinau period” of Pushkin’s life, the monograph “Cantemiri in visual materials”). In the early 1990s, he acted as the editor-compiler of the almanacs "Grad-Kitezh" (1992) and "Towards the Light" (1993), which combined church history topics with historiosophical questions.
Fomin is widely known as the author and compiler of the collection of church prophecies about the coming "Russia before the Second Coming" - a work whose volume grew with each new edition (1993, 1994 - one-volume; 1998 - two-volume). Later, Fomin continued church-historical documentary research dedicated to bishops and church leaders. Under his editorship and with his comments, the works and memoirs (some for the first time) of Metropolitan Nestor (Anisimov), Bishop Arseny (Zhadanovsky), Fr. Sergiy Durylin, Fr. Konstantin Rovinsky, schema-abode Tamar (Mardzhanova), archimandrite Konstantin (Zaitsev), ND Talberg. Fomin collected and commented on the most complete collection to date about Archpriest Alexei Mechev, now glorified among the saints ("Good Shepherd". 1997), including all the sermons and letters of this Moscow elder and memories of him revealed to date.
A special place in research and publishing activities Fomina belongs to the Tsar's theme. He edited a collection of spiritual hymns and prayers of Tsar John Vasilyevich; the books of Hegumen Seraphim (Kuznetsov) "Orthodox Tsar-Martyr" (1997); S. V. Markova "The Abandoned Royal Family" (2002); I. P. Jacobia "Emperor Nicholas II and the Revolution" (2005). He also compiled Sat. letters from diaries and memoirs about the Tsarina Martyr Alexandra Feodorovna ("The Sorrowful Angel". 2005), as well as "The Tsar's Collection" (2000), which includes services and akathists to the Royal Martyrs and the Memorial. Finally, he (mainly based on foreign émigré sources) wrote a work about who the righteous elder Theodore Kozmich of Tomsk was considered by the Emperors and other Members of the Royal House (2003).
A significant part of the work is devoted to various issues biography of GE Rasputin and has an apologetic character in his attitude.
On October 21, 2003, the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church awarded the book "Guardian of the House of the Lord" with a 1st degree Diploma in the nomination "Book - Event of the Year". In 2005 the writer and his wife Tamara Ivanovna were awarded the Archbishop of Petropavlovsk and Kamchatka Ignatius with the Bishop's Charter “in consideration of the works in the holy cause of the revival and development of Orthodoxy in Kamchatka”. At the end of 2007, Fomin was awarded the Diploma of the laureate of the Enlightener Prize named after St. talented popularization on the All-Russian scale and abroad of the works of the Kamchatka Apostle ". Fomin is a member of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka Diocesan Commission for the preparation of documents for the canonization of Vladyka Nestor.

Cantemirs in visual materials (1988)
"Working with pen and sword ..." (1990)
"Russia before the Second Coming" (1994)
"Their ashes are in our hearts." Royal family and Grigory Rasputin. The ritual nature of the murder of Grigory Rasputin
"Unknown Nilus" (1995), together with R.V. Bagdasarov
Whitewashed with blood. Martyrs and Confessors of the North-West of Russia and the Baltic States (1940-1955). Martyrology of Orthodox priests and clergymen of Latvia, repressed in 1940-1952. Biographies and materials for them (1999), together with priest. Andrey Golikov
Tsar's collection (1999)
"... And the wife will be given two wings." Sat. to the 50th anniversary of Sergei Fomin (2002)
“The last Tsarist saint. Saint John (Maksimovich), Metropolitan of Tobolsk, Siberian miracle worker. Life. Wonders. Glorification. Service. Akathist "(2003)
Holy Righteous Elder Theodore of Tomsk (2003)
“Guardian of the House of the Lord. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Sergius (Stragorodsky) The sacrificial feat of standing in the truth of Orthodoxy "(2003)
“Apostle of Kamchatka. Metropolitan Nestor (Anisimov) "(2004)
The generals fought for power ... and only the Emperor prayed "(2005)
“Sorrowful angel. Tsarina-Martyr Alexandra Novaya in letters, diaries and memoirs "(2005)
"On the Tsar's Guard" (2006), collection of articles
The Heavenly Queen is the Sovereign Ruler of the Russian Land. Kolomna Icon of the Mother of God "Reigning". Service. Akathists. Prayers. Legends. Testimonies (2007)
Earl Keller (2007)
"The Golden Blade of the Empire". His retinues Imperial Majesty General of the cavalry Count Fyodor Arturovich Keller. Ed. 2nd, rev. and add. (2009)
Terrible Tsar John Vasilievich (2009)
Tsar's collection. Ed. 2nd, rev. and add. (2009)
Grigory Rasputin: Investigation. T. 1. Punishment by Truth (2007)
Grigory Rasputin: Investigation. T. 2. "And all around wide Russia ..." (2008)
Grigory Rasputin: Investigation. T. 3. “God! Keep your own! " (2009)
Grigory Rasputin: Investigation. T. 4. "The Lord is my judge!" (2010)
Grigory Rasputin: Investigation. T. 5. "The lie is great, but the truth is greater ..." (2010)
Grigory Rasputin: Investigation. T. 6. "Passion hurts, but I will survive ..." (2011)
"Know how to wait!" For the 60th birthday of Sergei Fomin: Collection of articles (2011)

The truth about the first Russian tsar: who and why distorts the image of Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich (the Terrible) (2010, 2012)

Our dear Father. G. E. Rasputin-Novy through the eyes of his daughter and spiritual children (2012)

Grigory Rasputin: Investigation. T. 7. "Darling, dear, do not despair" (2013)

Research by the historian and writer S.V. Fomin's "Grigory Rasputin: Investigation" was replenished with the sixth book and went on sale. It is one of the largest in terms of volume. And almost half of it is devoted to the publication of documents. As in the previous book in the series, it has three inserts containing over 100 photographs.

Thanks to the publication of little-known photographs of the outstanding Russian photographer S.M. Prokudin-Gorsky, we can see Tobolsk, Yekaterinburg, Yalutorovsk, Verkhoturye, as it were through the eyes of G.E. Rasputin. It should be noted that this volume contains a lot of Siberian materials, and not only photographs of the places visited by the Tsar's Friend, but also of those persons with whom he was in one way or another connected. Many of them are practically unknown even to specialists.

A distinctive feature of this book is also the abundance of images directly on its pages. Here are facsimiles of notes and letters from Grigory Efimovich, taken from foreign publications and archives, including to the Tsarina. There is even a precisely dated drawing made by the elder himself in one of his Petersburg apartments.

The author, of course, knows better than others about the peculiarities of the publication. We asked him in the editorial office these days.

- Judging by the content, this sixth book tells about the attempt on G.E. Rasputin at Pokrovskoye on June 29, 1914?

This is its semantic center.

Its chronology stretches from January 1914 until the return of Grigory Efimovich to St. Petersburg in the autumn of the same year. The beginning of the war remains outside of it, which will be the subject of the next seventh book. As for the sixth volume, it is thoroughly documented. A selection of newspaper publications, which we have been collecting for several years, from central to regional publications, including Tobolsk and Tyumen, was of great help.

However, the most substantial source is the files preserved in the archives containing documents on the investigation of this crime. For the first time they are published by us in full, thus becoming available to researchers. Actually, these things changed my initial plan. At first, the book was supposed to show two events that triggered the mechanism of the Great War: the attempt on the life of the Tsar's Friend in Pokrovskoye and the murder in Sarajevo of the Heir to the Austro-Hungarian Throne Franz Ferdinand and his wife. However, the need to print documents changed these plans.

- But was it really necessary to publish documents in such a volume?

Otherwise, who will believe you? Exposing a lie can only be done by studying the personality of the liar (sometimes for this you have to refer not only to his past and subsequent life, but to ancestors, relatives and descendants). Moreover, this must be done against the background of real historical circumstances and events. However, the decisive one is still criticism of sources - a special methodology of auxiliary historical discipline source study. (It’s only amateurs who think that anyone can do history, even former socialist competition engineers, there would be a desire.

But history is the same science as biology, mathematics, physics or chemistry: it has its own methods, techniques, developed by the efforts of many generations of scientists, etc.) Returning to the criticism of sources, I note that one of its techniques is the collision method sources in which, by comparing several very different qualities of evidence, it is easy to separate the truth from the false. This, in fact, is what, blessing for work, the ever-memorable Fr. Nikolay: The untruth will help reveal the truth.

And these words of Dear Father, printed on the title page of each book of the investigation, are the key to everything. As for the "unnecessary details", "numerous references", etc., I will note that only under such conditions is it possible not only, little by little, to recapture the territory occupied by the enemy, but also to provide it with a reliable defensive line for the future. I ask you to pay attention to the fact that after the release of each next book, there are fewer and fewer hunters, casually blaspheme G.E. Rasputin.

Of course, the polluters did not stop thinking that way (as they say among the people: the grave will fix the hunchback), but they are already afraid of openly expressing their unsubstantiated convictions. By the way, for last volume a series specially dedicated to the history of the years fixed in the memoirs of contemporaries, historical works and performances in the media mass media falsification of the image of G.E. Rasputin, for several years now I have been collecting such irresponsible statements from our contemporaries. I am sure that the country should get to know and remember well its "heroes".

Among them, there are probably those who did it due to inertia of thinking. But, perhaps, having become acquainted with books like yours, they changed their minds?

God grant. Although those who spoke publicly bitingly are unlikely ... By the way, I divide open opponents of the Tsar's Friend into two main categories: rabid (those who, as they say, carry) and "missionaries" carrying out a certain mission. Among the latter I include the well-known to readers, both from my books and from interviews, the writer and professor of Moscow State University A.N. Varlamov.

- But why are you so attentive to him?

The answer is simple. He is the author of a biographical book about G.E. Rasputin. After its release, of course, he began to be quoted as a kind of expert in this matter. That is, he is invited to television, etc. But as for the truth ... You see, you may not know something, be mistaken in something, and then correct it. All this is a normal learning process. However, it seems to us that Varlamov wrote from ready-made templates, fulfilling someone's order.

This conclusion can be reached from the undoubted fact that the author deliberately withholds facts that do not suit him, which he undoubtedly knew from the studies he cited (including yours truly). If these facts, let’s say, caused him to doubt, he would have to deny them, offering in return the ones he found. But they simply do not suit him - and, therefore, they, it turns out, are not at all. (We have cited examples of such a technique of deliberate falsification more than once.)

Whom Edward Stanislavovich was able to capture, he was captured (including the late Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod Nikolai (Kutepov) and the now living abbot Abraham (Reidman) and the warrior with "dark forces" LP Miller). It was necessary to expand the catch - steep Alexei Nikolaevich came ashore, more acceptable for the Orthodox, whose lies are less annoying.

As for the customers' appraisal of "missionary work" of both, let us turn again to the facts. As you know, E.S. Radzinsky was a member of the Governmental Commission for the study of issues related to the study and reburial of the remains of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II and members of his family, formed in 1993 at the suggestion of the Russian Orthodox Church (that is, the so-called “ Yekaterinburg remains"). And recently, a literary Patriarchal Prize named after Saints Cyril and Methodius was established. The Expert Council established in 2011 included A.N. Varlamov. As they say, the amazing is near. True, it seems surprising only to those who are inattentive to what is happening.

- Let's return, however, to your new book.

- Everything in it, as we have already said, is centered around the attempt on the life of Grigory Efimovich in his homeland on June 29, 1914. That is why many pages in it are devoted to the description of Pokrovsky, places in the present village associated with the name of their famous compatriot, as well as to the contemporaries of Grigory Efimovich ... Taking this opportunity, I would like to once again thank the local historians of the Tyumen Land for providing me with the materials they have collected.

They found and photographed the places where G.E. Rasputin, they found and saved photographs of houses that have not survived to this day and people who have long gone into the world, somehow connected with their famous countryman. The roll-call acknowledgments, as always, are printed on the back title page.

Firstly, we are talking about two volumes of the case, which was conducted by V.G. Amelchenko. Over 400 pages of this case contain protocols of interrogations of the victim, the accused, witnesses, confrontations, a survey of the area, and expert reports; replies to inquiries sent from many locations Russian Empire, one way or another connected with the attempted murder case.

Secondly, this is the case of V.I. Zhukevich-Stosh, containing his correspondence, both with those who directly conducted the case in Tyumen, and with the Omsk Court of Justice, to which he was subordinate. It was the most difficult to decipher, since most of it consisted of drafts, written in pencil with a lot of abbreviations. From it, by the way, the fate of Khioniya Guseva is clarified after she was placed in a home for the insane.

Third, and finally, it was a supervisory proceeding by the prosecutor of the Omsk court chamber, A.K. Viskovatov. In fact, the researchers knew nothing about him. His documents were not examined. Only once did the Tyumen ethnographer A.V. Chernyshev mentioned its existence in one of the rare local publications. The special value of the case lies in the fact that it was A. K. Viskovatov who reported on the progress of the investigation to the Ministry of Justice in Petrograd. This was the source from which the Sovereign drew information. However, this last set of documents was in Omsk. And it was not so easy to make a copy of it. Now this case for the first time becomes available to researchers in full.

It was thanks to these documents that the whole picture of the crime was restored literally by hours and minutes.

- What fundamentally new did you manage to establish?

First of all, it is the very nature of the crime. And the choice of the murder weapon, and the dagger itself, and its location on the body of the criminal - readers will be able to learn about all this from the book and draw their own conclusions. Sources allow us to find out what forces stood behind the fanatical criminal who attempted to assassinate Grigory Efimovich, what goals they pursued, how they covered their tracks.

A fundamentally important point is to find out the place in this chain of the capital journalist Duvidzon, who happened to be on the day of the assassination "accidentally" in Pokrovskoye. The analysis of the materials allows us to assume with a high degree of confidence that Duvidzon (who had been involved in cooperation with the Police Department by S.P. Beletsky) is directly connected with the famous Mason-General V.F. Dzhunkovsky, who was in those days at the post of Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs. With the help of Duvidzon, the "general with the Masonic mark" not only kept the situation in connection with the assassination attempt under control, but also carried out massive disinformation of Russian society, thereby laying time mines.

A.N. Varlamov, it seems to him, is very witty, laughs at the suspicions expressed earlier by some authors: “In some books dedicated to Rasputin, it is argued that the whole story with the assassination attempt of Khionia Guseva on Rasputin and the hasty flight of Iliodor abroad was organized with the assistance of the Moscow Governor-General , freemason V.F. Dzhunkovsky. There are no serious arguments in favor of this exciting version, but there is very strong evidence that the escape abroad Iliodor was arranged with the help of Gorky. "

At first glance, everything is logical. Of course, the Moscow governor-general, whether he was even three times a Freemason, could not have any influence on the assassination attempt in the Tobolsk province. Writer Gorky and General Dzhunkovsky - what, it would seem, could be in common between them?

In fact, all this does not look very funny. First of all, by the summer of 1914, Vladimir Fedorovich had already been out of Moscow for a year and a half and, accordingly, not the governor-general. Serves in St. Petersburg as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs. As for Gorky, then, as it was possible to establish, through one of his wives, he just turned out to be connected with the general, and long before 1914. Readers will be able to glean all the necessary facts from the special chapter "Duvidzon, Dzhunkovsky, Gorky and his women."

- Did you manage to find anything new about further destinies defrocked "Iliodor" and Khioniya Guseva?

As for Iliodorus, the story in the sixth book ends with his escape abroad. On the basis of newspaper publications (first of all, Rostov ones), it was possible to restore a more or less reliable picture of the flight, about which many different fables had previously circulated in the literature. I propose to tell about his further life in one of the following volumes. But about Khioniya Guseva in the book that was just published, everything that could be found is told: severe heredity, a sick family, extreme fanaticism, etc.

There is another interesting twist: exactly five years after the assassination attempt on G.E. Rasputin in the village. Pokrovsky, also on Peter's day (!), However, this time in Moscow, on the steps of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, "suddenly recovered" Guseva again tried to commit a similar crime against Patriarch Tikhon. We first drew attention to this circumstance back in 1997 in the comments to the book of Hegumen Seraphim (Kuznetsov) "Orthodox Tsar-Martyr". Now, in the sixth volume, we present some Additional materials, telling about the Soviet "people's trial" over Guseva in 1919 in Moscow.

At the same time, all these brethren, willingly reproducing the old lies without any comments, are ready to forget even very important things for them. After all, without understanding the crime of 1914, they will never be able to correctly assess the background of the 1919 assassination attempt.

Acquaintance with the documents on the assassination attempt in 1914 allowed us to establish the real reasons for the suspension of the case against Iliodor and the placement of Guseva in a psychiatric hospital. This problem can only be understood correctly after a careful reading of the documents. In the meantime, let's say that the idea that the reasons for this "release from responsibility" of the main persons involved in the case should not be sought in the secret support of the criminals by some representatives of power structures. This is an erroneous, lightweight notion. In fact, by pondering the crime, those behind Iliodor and Guseva made it impossible to prosecute them in the usual legal order. Those who made the decisions in 1914 could do nothing about it.

As you know, Grigory Efimovich was a decisive opponent of the war. Judging by the titles of the last chapters, you are writing about this as well.

This is really very important question worthy of a thorough conversation. The fact that Rasputin's warnings deserved to be heeded is evidenced by history: in the fire of the Great War, three European Monarchies burned down - the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian Empires. In this regard, Grigory Efimovich also had authoritative like-minded people: P.N. Durnovo, Baron R.R. Rosen, Prince V.P. Meshchersky and Count S.Yu. Witte.

For all the complexity of the personality of Sergei Yulievich, it should be admitted that he was before last breath in the most decisive way he stood first against the war, and then for its quickest end through negotiations. It should be noted that Grigory Efimovich during this period of time did not shy away from contacts with S.Yu. Witte, met with him until his very death, which followed on February 28, 1915.

“Count Witte is a reasonable man,” Grigory Yefimovich told reporters. At the same time G.E. Rasputin always soberly assessed the personality of the count. Obviously counting on the transmission of his words to Sergei Yulievich, he bluntly said to a person close to him: Witte “is the first clever man in Russia ... only Pope and Mama does not respect much ... Everything strives in its own way. And Dad and Mom do not like this. The king must be honored and listened to. "

- Once you told that the beginning of the war was accompanied by all sorts of cataclysms ...

Few contemporaries wrote about the pre-war disasters in their memoirs. They can be understood: soon things more important and more costly happened. Only newspapers and magazines have preserved on their crumbling pages information and photographs telling about the terrible events of the spring and summer of 1914.

It was, as they wrote, "wild heat", blazed Forest fires, peat bogs were burning, there was nothing to breathe ... The information columns of the newspapers reminded of the future chronicle of hostilities. “The big fires of the last days,” wrote the journalists, “clearly showed the entire inconsistency of the organization of the fire case ...”

The flames raged even on the water. “In 60 versts from Kazan, opposite the Mariinsky Posad, the Tsaritsa steamer burned down. He went from Astrakhan to Nizhny Novgorod with more than 200 passengers. The fire broke out at about 1 am, when almost all the passengers were asleep. In a few minutes the steamer was on fire. Undeterred, the commander ordered the steamer to be sent to the meadow coast, on the sand. The Tsarina, engulfed in flames, was heading towards the shore at full steam. Crying and screaming rushed over the river. Many threw themselves into the water at full speed and died. "

That year, Russia was tested not only by fire. As a result of the flooding in Kurgan, all the largest furniture stores in the city were flooded, and people had to flee to the roofs of their houses. In Moscow Georgians, after a downpour, people walked knee-deep in water. The gardens and flower beds of Muscovites were beaten with a hail.

In some provinces, people escaped from the water on the roofs of houses, in others - the fields were burnt out from drought. The eternal harbingers of troubles and national calamities - disease - have also come. In a number of districts of the Vologda province appeared anthrax, in the Astrakhan province - the plague, on the western borders of the Empire - cholera.

We, who have become acquainted today with the "news feed" of June-July 1914, cannot fail to be amazed by these words from G.E. Rasputin, sent in those days to Peterhof: "Will nature not be against us?"

- And in conclusion, as always, a question about the next book. What is it about?

This time my answer will be unconventional. The next book, on which I have already begun work, I propose to publish outside the series. It is about the murder of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, about those secret springs of history that caused The great war; about other similar events.

I would not like to say more in detail so far. God willing, I'll write, then we'll talk. And for the seventh book of the investigation, the title of which has already been determined ("Dear, dear, do not despair"), I will begin later. It is about the first period of the war, before the capture of the High Command of the Russian Army in 1915 by Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich; about the role of G.E. Rasputin, which at this time greatly increased, and about the increasing opposition to the Tsar, Tsarina and Their Friend in certain circles of Russian society.

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S. V. Fomin and G. E. Rasputin's great-granddaughter Laurence Io-Soloviev at S. V. Fomin's house.
Russia, July 2012

Sergey Vladimirovich Fomin opened the blog "Tsar's Friend", which will be interesting to everyone as an "author's column" famous historian, presentation of new publications and a guide to the numerous works already published.

Presenting to the readers his new work - the final book of the author's series “Grigory Rasputin. Investigation ", S. V. Fomin writes:

So now it's time to fulfill the promise of publishing chapters for a new book, a printout of which is currently on my editorial desk.
I decided to start with materials about the murder of the Tsar's Friend, the interest in which - both here and abroad - has never subsided.
In spite of great amount publications (and, perhaps, this is also why?), until now we know little for certain, for sure.
Who killed? Where did they kill? How did they kill? There are no reliable answers even to these main questions, such that - after the next publication - they will not be asked again.
That is why the plan of the "investigation" that I started several years ago boiled down to slowly unwinding, in detail, corrosively, with seemingly "superfluous" details, to completely unwind the seemingly tangled tangle.
And it went well. Soil began to form on which one could stand on a firm foot, without fear of unexpected collapse.
There was a plan to reconstruct the murder case burnt in 1917 by the Sovereign. Did He commit it to oblivion under pressure from Relatives, or did He not want it to fall into the hands of those who made the coup? This particular question is actually very important, and it is not only necessary to answer it, but, I suppose, it is quite possible.
But there was neither time nor health. Now it is already the business of others who currently have something to rely on. After all, the approaches to the topic have already been cleared.
However, I would like to warn those who dare. Success is possible (though not guaranteed yet) in two cases:
First of all, if you have professionalism. Some people think that historical research can lead people who own a pen, interested in history (read two or three hundred books), correctly understanding the spiritual essence of what happened. This is a big mistake: if you do not have a strong bridle and reliable tools (in the form of mastery of special historical disciplines: source study, historiography, diplomacy, etc.), then you are practically doomed to failure. The availability of history as a science is a very illusory thing. The same as if you, owning a pick, a shovel, an ax and a saw (even with the help of all this to build your house), would take up the construction of a factory or power plant.
And second: if you are honest (to yourself and to people). Yes, among the professional community of historians, those who neglect all this make up the majority, but they do not write ABOUT IT, and you intend to. And this path is slippery and dangerous. You will destroy others and yourself.
So think ten times whether to take on this business, which promises, among other things, material hardship, and the ostracism of compatriots (and for the rest of their lives), and many other unpleasant things that believers call temptations.
But if you think that you are ready, that you can, that you cannot imagine your life without this, well ... God will help you. Here is the road for you. Here's a staff.

The study of the historian and writer S.V. Fomin's "Grigory Rasputin: Investigation" has been supplemented by the next, sixth book.

It is one of the largest in terms of volume. And almost half of it is devoted to the publication of documents. As in the previous book in the series, it has three inserts containing over 100 photographs. Thanks to the publication of little-known photographs of the outstanding Russian photographer S.M. Prokudin-Gorsky, we can see Tobolsk, Yekaterinburg, Yalutorovsk, Verkhoturye, as it were through the eyes of G.E. Rasputin. It should be noted that this volume contains a lot of Siberian materials, and not only photographs of the places visited by the Tsar's Friend, but also of those persons with whom he was in one way or another connected. Many of them are practically unknown even to specialists.

The author, of course, knows better than others about the peculiarities of the publication. We asked him in the editorial office these days.

- Judging by the content, this sixth book tells about the attempt on G.E. Rasputin at Pokrovskoye on June 29, 1914?

- This is its semantic center. Its chronology stretches from January 1914 until the return of Grigory Efimovich to St. Petersburg in the autumn of the same year. The beginning of the war remains outside of it, which will be the subject of the next seventh book. As for the sixth volume, it is thoroughly documented. A selection of newspaper publications, which we have been collecting for several years, from central to regional publications, including Tobolsk and Tyumen, was of great help. However, the most substantial source is the files preserved in the archives containing documents on the investigation of this crime. For the first time they are published by us in full, thus becoming available to researchers. Actually, these things changed my initial plan. At first, the book was supposed to show two events that triggered the mechanism of the Great War: the attempt on the life of the Tsar's Friend in Pokrovskoye and the murder in Sarajevo of the Heir to the Austro-Hungarian Throne Franz Ferdinand and his wife. However, the need to print documents changed these plans.

- But was it really necessary to publish documents in such a volume?

It was impossible to do otherwise. I will try to explain why. At one time, the ever-memorable elder Nikolai Pskovozersky blessed me to carry out an investigation in connection with Grigory Efimovich. I also added that I did it neatly. However, it is possible to free the name of the Tsar's Friend from the still unceasing stream of lies, only in the most careful way, smear by smear, erasing all this slander. And not just removing the blackness, saying that this was not the case, but strictly substantiating it with facts. Otherwise, who will believe you? Exposing a lie can only be done by studying the personality of the liar (sometimes for this you have to refer not only to his past and subsequent life, but to ancestors, relatives and descendants). Moreover, this must be done against the background of real historical circumstances and events. However, criticism of sources is still decisive - a special methodology of the auxiliary historical discipline of source study. (It is only amateurs who think that anyone can do history, even former engineers for socialist competition, there would be a desire. But history is the same science as biology, mathematics, physics or chemistry: it has its own methods developed by the efforts of many generations of scientists, techniques, etc.) Returning to criticism of sources, I note that one of its techniques is the method of collision of sources, in which, by comparing several very different qualities of evidence, one can easily separate the truth from the lie. This, in fact, is what, blessing for work, the ever-memorable Fr. Nikolay: The untruth will help to reveal the truth. And these words of Dear Father, printed on the title page of each book of the investigation, are the key to everything. As for the "unnecessary details", "numerous references", etc., I will note that only under such conditions is it possible not only, little by little, to recapture the territory occupied by the enemy, but also to provide it with a reliable defensive line for the future. I ask you to pay attention to the fact that after the release of each next book, there are fewer and fewer hunters, casually blaspheme G.E. Rasputin. Of course, the polluters did not stop thinking that way (as they say among the people: the grave will fix the hunchback), but they are already afraid to openly express their unfounded convictions. By the way, for the last volume of the series, specially devoted to the history of the falsification of the image of G.E. Rasputin, for several years now I have been collecting such irresponsible statements from our contemporaries. I am sure that the country should get to know and remember well its "heroes".

- Among them there are probably those who did it due to inertia of thinking. But, perhaps, having become acquainted with books like yours, they changed their minds?

- God forbid. Although those who spoke publicly bitingly are unlikely ... By the way, I divide open opponents of the Tsar's Friend into two main categories: rabid (those who, as they say, carry) and "missionaries" who carry out a certain mission. Among the latter I include the well-known to readers, both from my books and from interviews, the writer and professor of Moscow State University A.N. Varlamov.

- But why are you so attentive to him?

- The answer is simple. He is the author of a biographical book about G.E. Rasputin. After its release, of course, he began to be quoted as a kind of expert in this matter. That is, he is invited to television, etc. But as for the truth ... You see, you may not know something, be mistaken in something, and then correct it. All this is a normal learning process. However, it seems to us that Varlamov wrote from ready-made templates, fulfilling someone's order. This conclusion can be reached from the undoubted fact that the author deliberately withholds facts that do not suit him, which he undoubtedly knew from the studies he cited (including yours truly). If these facts, let’s say, caused him to doubt, he would have to deny them, offering in return the ones he found. But they simply do not suit him - and, therefore, they, it turns out, are not at all. (We have cited examples of such a technique of deliberate falsification more than once.)

Now with regard to "missionary work." About whose mission Varlamov is fulfilling, I have already written in books, and told in interviews. I will not repeat myself. By the way, all the interviews were published in my recently published collection of "Wait!", Which can be purchased at the "Russian Bulletin" bookstore. And A.N. Varlamov to replace E.S. Radzinsky. The fact is that Radzinsky's falsification was striking, and therefore "did not work." The evil investigator was replaced by a good one. A lie is a half-truth. That's the whole difference. Whom Edward Stanislavovich was able to capture, he was captured (including the late Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod Nikolai (Kutepov) and the now living abbot Abraham (Reidman) and the warrior with "dark forces" LP Miller). It was necessary to expand the catch - steep Alexei Nikolaevich came ashore, more acceptable for the Orthodox, whose lies are less annoying.

As for the customers' appraisal of "missionary work" of both, let us turn again to the facts. As you know, E.S. Radzinsky was a member of the Governmental Commission, formed in 1993 at the suggestion of the Russian Orthodox Church, to study issues related to the study and reburial of the remains of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II and members of his family (that is, the so-called “Yekaterinburg remains”). And recently, a literary Patriarchal Prize named after Saints Cyril and Methodius was established. The Expert Council established in 2011 included A.N. Varlamov. As they say, the amazing is near. True, it seems surprising only to those who are inattentive to what is happening.

-Let's return, however, to your new book.

Everything in it, as we have already said, is centered around the attempt on the life of Grigory Efimovich in his homeland on June 29, 1914. That is why many pages in it are devoted to the description of Pokrovsky, places in the current village associated with the name of their famous compatriot, as well as to the contemporaries of Grigory Efimovich. Taking this opportunity, I would like to once again thank the local historians of the Tyumen Land for providing me with the materials they have collected. They found and photographed the places where G.E. Rasputin, they found and saved photographs of houses that have not survived to this day and people who have long gone into the world, somehow connected with their famous countryman. The roll-call acknowledgments, as always, are printed by us on the back of the title page.

A special role belongs to the Tyumen ethnographer M.S. Yablokov. It was thanks to his help and perseverance that it was possible to copy the cases of the attempted murder of G.E. Rasputin. The cases deposited in the Tobolsk archive were known before, documents from them were used in his books by O.A. Platonov. Firstly, we are talking about two volumes of the case, which was conducted by V.G. Amelchenko. Over 400 pages of this case contain protocols of interrogations of the victim, the accused, witnesses, confrontations, a survey of the area, and expert reports; answers to inquiries sent from many localities of the Russian Empire, one way or another connected with the case of the assassination attempt.

It was thanks to these documents that the whole picture of the crime was restored literally by hours and minutes.

- What fundamentally new did you manage to establish?

- Did you manage to discover anything new about the further destinies of the defrocked Iliodor and Khioniya Guseva?

- As for Iliodor, the story in the sixth book ends with his escape abroad. On the basis of newspaper publications (first of all, Rostov ones), it was possible to restore a more or less reliable picture of the flight, about which many different fables had previously circulated in the literature. I propose to tell about his further life in one of the following volumes. But about Khioniya Guseva in the book that was just published, everything that could be found is told: severe heredity, a sick family, extreme fanaticism, etc.

There is another interesting twist: exactly five years after the assassination attempt on G.E. Rasputin in the village. Pokrovsky, also on Peter's day (!), However, this time in Moscow, on the steps of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, "suddenly recovered" Guseva again tried to commit a similar crime against Patriarch Tikhon. We first drew attention to this circumstance back in 1997 in the comments to the book of Hegumen Seraphim (Kuznetsov) "Orthodox Tsar-Martyr". Now, in the sixth volume, we present some additional materials telling about the Soviet "people's trial" over Guseva in 1919 in Moscow.

The compiler of the famous collection about Patriarch Tikhon M.E. Gubonin at one time noticed, in our opinion, a very important circumstance: "It is characteristic that the court did not even hint at Guseva's last attempt on the life of Rasputin in 1914." At the same time, in the book "Contemporaries on Patriarch Tikhon", published in 2007 by the Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanitarian University, referring to this really important circumstance, they still continue to reproduce the long-exposed slanderous motives of that first crime: "... [G.E. Rasputin] some of my old scores. " (They say, as we wrote, we will continue to write.) At the same time, all these brethren, willingly reproducing the old lies without any comments, are ready to forget even very important things for them. After all, without understanding the crime of 1914, they will never be able to correctly assess the background of the 1919 assassination attempt.

- As you know, Grigory Efimovich was a decisive opponent of the war. Judging by the titles of the last chapters, you are writing about this as well.

This is indeed a very important question, worthy of a detailed discussion. The fact that Rasputin's warnings deserved to be heeded is evidenced by history: in the fire of the Great War, three European Monarchies burned down - the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian Empires. In this regard, Grigory Efimovich also had authoritative like-minded people: P.N. Durnovo, Baron R.R. Rosen, Prince V.P. Meshchersky and Count S.Yu. Witte. For all the complexity of Sergei Yulievich's personality, it should be admitted that, until his last breath, he stood in the most resolute manner, first against the war, and then for its quickest end through negotiations. It should be noted that Grigory Efimovich during this period of time did not shy away from contacts with S.Yu. Witte, met with him until his very death, which followed on February 28, 1915. “Count Witte is a reasonable man,” Grigory Yefimovich told reporters. At the same time G.E. Rasputin always soberly assessed the personality of the count. Obviously counting on the transmission of his words to Sergei Yulievich, he bluntly said to a person close to him: Witte “is the first clever man in Russia ... only Pope and Mama does not respect much ... Everything strives in its own way. And Dad and Mom do not like this. The king must be honored and listened to. "

- Once you talked about how the beginning of the war was accompanied by all sorts of cataclysms ...

It was, as they wrote, "wild heat", forest fires blazed, peat bogs were burning, there was nothing to breathe ... The information columns of the newspapers reminded of the future chronicle of hostilities. “The big fires of the last days,” wrote the journalists, “clearly showed the entire inconsistency of the organization of the fire case ...”

In some provinces, people escaped from the water on the roofs of houses, in others - the fields were burnt out from drought. The eternal harbingers of troubles and national calamities - disease - have also come. Anthrax appeared in a number of districts of the Vologda province, plague in the Astrakhan province, and cholera on the western borders of the Empire.

-And finally, as always, a question about the next book. What is it about?

- This time my answer will be unconventional. The next book, on which I have already begun work, I propose to publish outside the series. It is about the murder of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, about those secret springs of history that caused the Great War; about other similar events. I would not like to say more in detail so far. God willing, I'll write, then we'll talk. And for the seventh book of the investigation, the title of which has already been determined ("Dear, dear, do not despair"), I will begin later. It is about the first period of the war, before the capture of the High Command of the Russian Army in 1915 by Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich; about the role of G.E. Rasputin, which at this time greatly increased, and about the increasing opposition to the Tsar, Tsarina and Their Friend in certain circles of Russian society.

Sergei Fomin. "Grigory Rasputin. Investigation". Orthodox writer - historian sergei vladimirovich fomin was awarded the order of the holy passion-bearer tsar nicholas

BLOG S. V. FOMIN "THE CZAR'S FRIEND" AND CHAPTERS FROM A NEW BOOK ABOUT G.E.RASPUTIN

BLOG S. V. FOMIN "THE CZAR'S FRIEND"
AND CHAPTERS FROM A NEW BOOK ABOUT G.E.RASPUTIN