49. Grave, Burzhuaziia, 141.
50. Pares, Letters, 395.
51. Pares, The Fall, 380.
52. E. D. Chermenskii, IV Gosusdarstvennaia Duma i sverzhenie tsarizma v Rossii (Moscow, 1976), 201.
53. Pares, The Fall, 380.
54. Gurko, Memories and Impressions, 184.
55. Guchkov, as reported in Pares, The Fall, 381.
56. Chermenskii, IV Duma, 196, note 4.
57. Padenie, I/2, 1–64.
58. Chermenskii, IV Duma, 198.
59. Diakin, Russkaia burzhuaziia, 268–69.
60. Padenie, IV, 29; George Katkov, Russia 1917: The February Revolution (New York, 1967), 213.
61. Pares, The Fall, 383.
62. Chermenskii, IV Duma, 204.
63. Grave, Burzhuaziia, 145–48; Diakin, Russkaia burzhuaziia, 236–37.
64. Grave, Burzhuaziia, 146–47.
65. Ibid., 147.
66. Diakin, Russkaia burzhuaziia, 241.
67. V. P. Semennikov, Monarkhiia pered krusheniem, 1914–1917 (Moscow, 1927), 130–31.
68. T. Hasegawa, The February Revolution: Petrograd 1917 (Seattle-London, 1981), 55.
69. KA, No. 4 (1923), 196.
70. Chermenskii, IV Duma, 206.
71. Ibid.
72. Ibid., 207.
73. Ibid.
74. Gosudarstvennaia Duma, Stenograficheskii otchët, IV Sozyv, Sessiia V, Zasedanie I (n.p., n.d.), 11–13.
75. Ibid., 29–33.
76. A. S. Rezanov, Shturmovoi signal P. N. Miliukova (Paris, 1924), 43–61.
77. P. N. Miliukov, Vospominaniia, 1859–1917, II (New York, 1955), 276–77.
78. Miliukov to Petrunkevich in 1919, in Diakin, Russkaia burzhuaziia, 243.
79. Bazylow, Obalenie caratu, 204.
80. S. S. Oldenburg, Tsarstvovanie Imperatora Nikolaia II, II (Munich, 1949), 218–20.
81. Among contemporaries, this opinion was held by the Tsar’s aide V. N. Voeikov (S tsarem i bez tsariia, Helsingfors, 1936, 166) and the liberal publicist Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams: From Liberty to Brest Litovsk (London, 1919), 3; among historians, by Chermenskii (IV Duma, 212–13), Diakin (Russkaia burzhuaziia, 275–76), and George Katkov, Russia, 1917 (New York, 1967), 194–97.
82. Gosudarstvennaia Duma, Stenograficheskii otchët, IV Sozyv, Sessiia V, 68.
83. Voeikov, S tsarem, 185.
84. Bobrinskoi in VE, No. 12 (1916), 379.
85. Diakin, Russkaia burzhuaziia, 244.
86. Lettres des Grands-Ducs à Nicolas II (Paris, 1926), 258–59.
87. Perepiska Nikolaia i Aleksandry Romanovykh, 1916–1917, V (Moscow-Leningrad, 1927), 128-29, 131.
88. Diakin, Russkaia burzhuaziia, 244–45.
89. Spiridovich, Velikaia voina, II, 189, and VE, No. 2 (1917), 324.
90. Paléologue, La Russie des Tsars, III, 90.
91. Ibid., 91.
92. Ibid., 105.
93. Rech’, November 11–14, 1916, cited in RZ, November 1916, 238–39.
94. Diakin, Russkaia burzhuaziia, 248; Spiridovich, Velikaia voina, II, 175–76; VE, November 1916, 342–43.
95. Grand Duke Dmitrii in F. Iusupov, Konets Rasputina (Paris, 1927), 134.
96. Gosudarstvennaia Duma, Stenograficheskie otchëty, IV Sozyv, V Sessiia, Zasedanie 6 (November 19, 1916), 253–54.
97. Ibid., Zasedanie 18 (December 16, 1916), 1225–26; Bazylow, Obalenie caratu, 248–49.
98. KA, No. 4 (1923), 187.
99. A. I. Spiridovich, Raspoutine (Paris, 1935), 335–38.
100. Pares, Letters, 221.
101. See his last will and testament in Aron Simanovitch, Raspoutine (Paris, 1930), 256; V. P. Semennikov, Politika Romanovykh nakanune Revoliutsii (Moscow-Leningrad, 1926), 92.
102. Padenie, IV, 14.
103. Kokovtsov, Iz moego proshlogo, II, 41.
104. Spiridovich, Raspoutine, 94.
105. Diakin, Russkaia burzhuaziia, 261.
106. Perepiska Romanovykh, V, 153; retranslated from the Russian.
107. Spiridovich, Velikaia voina, II, 177. Cf. Pares, The Fall, 382.
108. Protopopov in Padenie, IV, 15–16.
109. Ibid., 31.
110. Padenie, IV, 5; Spiridovich, Velikaia voina, II, 176–77; A. A. Mossolov, At the Court of the Last Tsar (London, 1935), 170–73.
111. Katkov, Russia, 1917, 197.
112. Maklakov in SZ, XXXIV, 265.
113. Pares, The Fall, 396.
114. Ibid., 396–97, 402.
115. Pares, The Fall, 403.
116. Spiridovich, Raspoutine, 369–70; Shulgin, Dni, 119.
117. Spiridovich, Raspoutine, 374.
118. Paléologue, La Russie des Tsars, III, 141.
119. Pares, The Fall, 406.
120. V. M. Purishkevich, Ubiistvo Rasputina (Paris, [1923]), 81.
121. Pares, The Fall, 462; KA, No. 4 (1923), 425.
122. Spiridovich, Raspoutine, 396.
123. Spiridovich, Velikaia voina, II, 207.
124. Ibid., 216–17; Pares, The Fall, 410.
125. Voeikov, S tsarem, 178.
126. Iusupov, Konets Rasputina, 204.
127. KA, No. 1/20 (1927), 124.
128. Spiridovich, Velikaia voina, II, 203, 211.
129. Ibid., II, 217.
130. Text in Voeikov, S tsarem, 182–83.
131. Spiridovich, Velikaia voina, II, 214–15.
132. Ibid., III, 29.
133. Ibid., II, 184; Diakin, Russkaia burzhuaziia, 287.
134. Pares, The Fall, 414.
135. Voeikov, S tsarem, 191.
136. Bazylow, Obalenie caratu, 338–39.
137. Spiridovich, Velikaia voina, III, 17.
138. KA, No. 1/20 (1927), 126.
139. Spiridovich, Velikaia voina, II, 19.
140. M. V. Rodzianko, The Reign of Rasputin (London, 1928), 253–54.
141. SZ. XXIV (1928), 279.
142. M. V. Rodzianko, The Reign of Rasputin (London, 1927), 253–54.
143. Maklakov in SZ, No. 34 (1928), 279.
144. Guchkov in PN, No. 5,647 (September 9, 1936), 2, and No. 5, 651 (September 13, 1936), 2; see further Pares, The Fall, 427–48; Padenie, VI, 278; Diakin, Russkaia burzhuaziia, 301–2; Spiridovich, Velikaia voina, II, 166, and III, 46; Hasegawa, February Revolution, 187.