conversation, which lasted a whole hour, Constantine, the Archbishop of Moghilev, and the Generals, Alexeyev, Scherbachev and Nicholas Nicholayevitch Duchonin. When I was about to take my leave, His Majesty addressed these parting words to me:
"Do not worry, my son. … Everything will be done to
The First Revolution.
cleanse the Orthodox Russian Church from its foulness." I thanked the Emperor and departed. Two days later, I was again summoned to the Czar, quite unexpectedly, by General Duchonin. During
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