RUSSIAN POLITICS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 99, 26 April 1917, Page 7

RUSSIAN POLITICS

THE TSARINA'S INTERFERENCE

ASTONISHING LETTER TO RASPUTIN.

UDSTBALIAN-HEW ZEALAND CABU ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 25th April. A Moscow newspaper publishes private telegrams that passed between - the Tsarina and the Tsar in December and March, while the Tsar was at the front. All the 'telegrams were in English. They show that the Empress was actively interfering in politics. One telegram'asked the Tsar immediately to stop the prosecution of ManuiJoft, the pro-German ex-Premier ' Stunner's private secretary, who was accused of blackmail. The telegram ended: "This is absolutely necessary for your peace of mind." The Tsar replied: " Will stop the case at onco." Telegraphing on 12th March, the Tsarina said " Yesterday's riots are shocking. Many of the troops have gone over."

Lator in the day sho telegraphed: "Strikes spreading. Troops joining the strikers. Some concessions unavoidable,"

The Tsarina, sent an astonishing letter to the monk Rasputin, written in ungrammatical Russian, in which she says: " What joy that you came to see us! To lay one's head on your shoulder, to gay nothing, just to feel the joy and peace of forgetiulness! What heavenly bliss! Don'.t leave me. lam weak. I love you. I have faith, in you alone." The letter wits signed, "Your daughter, A." ' >, The Tsarina's grief at Rasputin's murder is reflected in a number of telegrams.