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Russian Empress Greatly Pleased When An
other Enemy of Germany in Tsar's Couneils
Is Killed in Theater by an Agent.
WRITTEN BY THE BARONESS ZENEIDE TZANKOFF NEE
KAMENSKY, OF RUSSIA,
EDITED BY WILLIAM LE QUEUX,
Famous Traveler, Authority on European Court Intrigues, Adviser to the
British Secret Service Foreign Department, Frequently Consulted by
European Secret Service Departments on Spying and Espionage.
(Copyright, 1918, by William T.e Queu Book and Translation Rights Are
Reserved.)
CHAPTER XIV,
Rasputin naturally expressed som«
surprise that the matter should inter
est her majesty so deeply: but Alix,
m her part, cleverly concealed her in
dignation.
Half an hour later I ushered Into]
the Imperial presence the ami.qlaml
director of the dreaded Okhrana, an
alert, youngish man. Alix was awalt.
ng him alone.
“Tell me,” she demanded petulant
ly, “what is this story about mmrl
woman having been arrested for being
coreerned in a plot against our frmnd,l
Monsieur Stolypin?”
“The young woman, your majesty,
s named Baltz, from Stavropol. She
wae arrested in a house in the Klin
sky Prospect last night, having been
derounced to us as head of a des
perate plot against he life of his ex
cellency Peter Stolypin. The attempt
was to be made with bombs as his
excellency was leaving the Ministry
at noon today,” was his reply.
“And who are her associates”' Alix
asked.
“Three men named Kartamecheff, a
shcemaker; Semenoff, an engineer,
and Kozell, a printer. All three have
jong been suspected as nihilists. DBut
the woman is undoubtedly at the head
of the conspiracy,” replied the ele
gart bureaucrat Birileff. “1 have only
an hour ago, signed the order for the
woman to be sent to Shlusselburg
and the men to Siberia.”
Stolypin’s Orders.
“Does Monsieur Stolypin know of
this?”
“l informed him this morning, and
he suggested that the woman be sent
to £hlusselburg.”
Alix pursed her lips, a habit of hers
when unusually displeased. The Min
ister's suggestion was but natural,
of course.
‘Were any papers found?”' she
usked.
“l believe so—some belonging to
this woman,” was the man's reply as
he stood before her, his hands behind
his back, like a schoolboy under ex
amination
“What else do you know?” asked
the Immpress quickly, in such an ir
ritoted tone that the assistant direc
tor of the department charged with
the personal safety of the imperial
family became filled with wonder.
“Very little, your majesty,” he an
swered. “Plots are being hatched on
every hand; therefore it behooves us
to exercise the greatest care, and
stamp out by the most drastic meas
pres any semblance of conspiracy.”
“Have you seen this woman's pa
pers 2"
“Yes., They were brought to me
this morning.”
Demands Papers.
“You have them here—in the pal
ance? 1 wish to see them,” the Em
press exclaimed eagerly, and Mon
gieur Birileff was at once sent in
search of them.'
The fools! The outrageous idiots!”
¢ried Alix, stamping her foot in rage
the moment the door had closed. “Only
to think, Seneide, that they have ar
rested that woman! Some agent
provocateur has denounced her. 1
wonder what papers have been dis
covered. 1 wonder if she had that
compromising letter from Stolypin
upon her.”
In order to satisfy herself upon that
point, Alix had ordered the papers be
lorging to the prisoner to be pro
duced.
A guarter of an hour later the as
sistant director returned with a large
official envelope, which he emptied,
handing the contents to the Empress.
In feverish haste Alix seated herself
at her little writing tabel and ex
amined them. They were mostly let
ters from her parents in Stavropo,
and friends in Saratov. One was
from the famous lawyer named Alts
chiller, who, by the way, later on
conducted Madame Boutoviteh's (aft
erward wife of General Soukjomli
noff) sensational divorce case, and into
whose hands the German, Hardt, had,
at Alix’s orders, placed Vera Baltz's
action against the Prime Minister. |
Agent Commended. f
“That letter we do not exactly un
derstand.” remarked the police official.
“l am having inquiries made of Mon
sieur Altschiller. It seems as though
the woman has some deep personal
grievance against his excellency, Yet
the plot seems to be purely political
in motive, judging from the fact that
her three male accomplices are ni
hiliste.”
The Emopress reflected a few mo
ments. Then, having satisfied herself
thut Stolypin’s letter to Vera had not
been recovered, she assumed a care
less attiutde, remarking:
“Ah! it is really a great pity when
women have such grievances against
our honorable statesmen. 'You must
be congratulatéd, Monsieur Birileff,
uron having crushed the conspiracy,
which no doubt was a desperate one.”
And with these words of com
mendation she dismissed him.
The moment he had gone her maj
tsty ordered me to call up Hardt upon
the telephone, as she wished to speak
to him.
This I did, and ten minutes later
the Tsaritza was talking with the
German secret akent in the capital,
{ eould not catch® her words, but
uo doubt whatever she said was very
gilanded ~he only used the telephone
when occasion absolutely negessitated
When she came forth from the tei
phone cabinet she was more angry
fhan ever
Strangers to Her.
“The infernal idiote!” she cried
“Somebody has denounced the girl in
st
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rder to seek reward. Hardt sa_vr:l
that the three nihilists arrested wemi
complete strangers to her. She was
lodging in the mame house as they
were—that was all.”
“Curious, though, that the woman
Baltz should also be arrested. Some
body must have known that she was
Stolypin's enemy. Was not that a
secret?” 1 remarked.
“No secret is safe with our Black
Cabinet at work,” she declared. “I
happen to know that my own letters
have been tampered with! That is
why 1 send all I can by courier
especlally any letters to Germany.”’
A moment later she ordered me to
get her a telegraph form-—one of
those large, blue ones specially print
ed for their majesties’ use,
Then, seating herself at a table, she
wrote out a message.
“It will take too long for a mes
senger to go to Nikki at Odessa,” she
remarked as she sat writing, “so I
must telegraph.”
Then when she had finished she
handed it to me to take to the teleg
raphist at the other end of the pal
ace,
On the way T read the words she
had penned. They were addressed to
the Emperor, at Odessa, and were:
“I ask you to immediately sign an
order for the release of Vera Baltz,
wrongly charged with conspiring
against Stolypin, and the return of
her papers. A grave injustice is be
ing done to an innocent person. The
men arrested with her are guilty, but
ghe is not. Inform me by telegraph
that you have done this. To arrest
innocent persons as nihilists in these
critical days only irritates the people,
and makes matters much worse.—
ALIX."
Altchiller Family.
Two hours later a footman handed
me a telegram for her majesty, and
on opening it I found the Emperor’'s
reply. It said:
“l have telegraphed the order for
the release of Vera Baltz, of whose
arrest 1 have heard nothing. You are
ever watchful that injustice should
not be done in our name, and 1 thank
you, and the people should also thank
you.—NIKKIL"
When, five minutes later, I handed
the message to the Empress, she raad‘
it, smiled in triumph, and tossed it
into the fire, Ten minutes later she
was again speaking to the man Hardt
over the telephone, giving instruc
tione through him to the lawyer Alt
’uvhnler.
1 may here reveal a further and
deeper intrigue. The family of Alt
schiller was well known in Russia be
fore the war. They were Austrians,
who had years Dbefore estgblished
themselves at Kiev, and, later on, as
Altschiller, senior, rose in society,
transferred themselves to St. Peters
burg. This Altschiller, senior whom
1 knew well, and never suspected, has
gince been proved to have been the
chief of the Austrian spying organi
zation in Russia.
Long before 1914 it was whispered
that Altschiller-—-who absconded a
few weeks before war was declared——
was a spy, and his close intimacy
with the Minister Soukhomlinoff was
freely commented upon.
Dangerous Person.
Indeed, on one occasion at Tsars
hoe-Seloe, M. Makeroff--who was
then Minister of the Interior—in my
presence and before both Emperor
and Empress, told the Minister of
War openly that Altschiller was a
dangerous person. But bald-headed
old Soukhomlinoff stood up for him,
declaring that he had known him in
Kiev before, and that he was per
fectly honest,
Yet at the general's trial his bank
ing account was examined. It was
also shown that this Altschiller had
had, with the German spy Missoye
doff, free access to the Minister of
War's private rooms, that they regu
larl yexamined his most confidential
papers, and that no secret was with
held from them! And, further, it was
proved that Austrian money in large
sums had been regularly paid into
the Minister's account by this very
man whom he defended before the
Emperor.
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dealing, Much whitewashing of the
Romanoffs will, of course, be ate
tempted in the years horeafter; but
nothing can ever erase the blots upon
the imperial escutcheon which Alix
of Hesse has placed upom It
Cunning Intriguer.
As a result of Vera Balte's arrest,
the Empress caused the downfall and
disgrace of the well-meaning official,
Birileff, When once her mind was
set upon intrigue or vengeance she
always went to work slowly, but with
i eold, caleulating cunning that was
unequalled, Upon the man or woman
whom she had marked down for dis
grace, ruin—nay, even for, death—in
those horrible oubliettes or in far-off
log cabin in the Siberian snows, she
would smile benignly, and even walve
court etiquette until the victim was
at his ease. But sooner or later, if
she waited even for years, she would
strike, and strike with a vicious and
relentless hand,
1 give her plot against Stolypin
and his wife in rather full detail be
cause its denouement not only turned
against her own ambitions, but had
an effect upon herself and the im
perial dynasty which she had never
foreseen, Truly she has lived to rue
the day that she ever set her hand
against Stolypin.
The release of Vera' Baltz was, of
course, immediate, Hermann Hardt,
no doubt, told her of the Empress’ in
tervention upon her behalf, and the
Austrian Altschiller, junior—arrested
after war was declarea—further reas
sured her as to her position. At the
order of the Empress, through he
despicable agent Harat, the necessary
legal papers were being prepared,
and Alix wag secretly gloating over
her triumph when Stolypin would be
held up to public ridicule and the
plous Madame Stolypin would know
of her husband’s backsliding.
Liberty Almost Gone.
About three weeks went past, when
Russia was amazed at still another
terrible outrage. ‘l'he nihilists had
suddenly entered the struggle which
stolypin was waging against the
whole nation. A single whisper
against ,an individual had become
sufficient to send him without trial
to Siberia, while the liberty of no
body was safe. The “nihilists had,
therefore, once more resorted to ex
tremes. They hated Stolypin for his
cold, callous relentlessness and for
the way in which he r-ounu-nunced‘
wholesale arrests and deportations of
perfectly innocent persons. \
Stolypin, against whom the Aus
trian Altschiller had already prepared
a case in the law court, had a summer
villa on what is known as the Islandg
of the Apothecaries, near Petrograd,
and here he was living with his wife
and two children, son and daughter.
Surrounded as he was by police
agents, who kept him under observa
tion day and night, he naturally be
lieved himself perfectly secure. He
was not aware:—just as the Empress
and every one else was in ignorance—
that the woman Baltz, now imbued
with nihilist ideas, had resolved to
kill her enemy rather than expose
him in the law courts. Indeed, truth
to tell, the previous plot had heen
concelved by her, and M. Ririleff had
acted perfectly honestly.
| Second Plot Deeper.
. This second plot was, however,
more deeply laid than the first. One
summer's night, the Premier’s villa
having been cleverly undermined, an
explosion occurred which nearly de
stroyed the place, wrecked many
houses in the vicinity, killed forty
five persons and wounded the two
children, though his excellency him
se“ escaped.
tolypin, amid this disaster, re
mained perfectly calm. Having seen
that the wounds inflicted upon his
children were dressed, he at once left
for Peterhof-—where we happened to
‘be—and had audience of the Tsar.
I remember that night well. News
of the explosion came to us over the
telephone.
When [ informed Her Majesty of
the number of dead, she said:
“Poor people! It would have been
better if Stolvpin himself had been
among the number. That man is dan
gerous to us, Zeneide, He hates the
Emperor William."”
i At the audience His Excellency had
'with His Majesty he pointed out how
dastardly was the attempt upon his
person and that of his family, and
represented to the Emperor the ne
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cessity of showing no merey to those
who were trying to shatter the throne
‘and its power, %
| Gave Him Free Hand.
The Emperor thereupon gave his
favorite Minister a free hand, and the
latter, suspecting the woman Vera of
being the instigator of the attempt,
caused search to be made for her, but
the Empress, through Hardt, had
taken good care that she had escaped
to Danzig, there to await the soclal
coup thaut was intended,
Meanwhile, the Nihilists were not
inactive, A further plot was formed
agalnst Stolypin, and into thie entered
a Jew named Bagrov, who had been
one of the secret agents of the Pre
mier--an agent-provocaeur whom he
had employed to watch Vera's move
ments on her arrival in Petrograd.‘
but who had later on fallen in love
with the girl, |
When our court left for the Crimea
in the autumn it was arranged that
we should stop at Kiev, so as to allow
the Emperor to attend the military
maneuvers there, M, Stolypin accom.
panied us in the train, being the prin
cipal member of the suite,
On the day of our arrival at Kiev
there was a gala performance at the
theater, at which we were all pres
ent. With a ticket signed by Stolypin
himself, the secret agent Bagrov ob
tained entrance to the theater, and,
entering his chief's box, he watched
his opportunity to fire at him with a
revolver,
Dies From Wound.
1 saw Stolypin fall back in his
chair. Then all became confusion and
1 attended Her Majesty, who at once
rose and left. .
The wounded Minister lingered for
three days, and then succumbed., But
all Russia stood aghast, and even His
xcellency's enemiss were dumb with
horror—all save Alix, who was se
cretly delighted, for still another en- |
emy of Germany had been removed.
She even induced Nicholas to re
frain from attending the funeral of
his murdered servant, and we all left
for the Crimea on the very day of
the funeral, an event purposely ar
ranged by Alexandra Feodorovna in
order to express her contempt for the
dead man and to accentuate her own
triumph. An enemy of Germany had
been removed, and the young woman,
Baltz, the instigator of the ~rime, had
disappeared-—to Paris,
It was spring again and we were
back at Tsarkoe-Selo when Nicholas
one day at luncheon, in an unusually
happy mood, suggested a yachting
cruise down the Baltic to visit the
Court of Denmark at Copenhagen.
Alix was at once concerned regard
ing the little Tsarevitch, to whom she
was entirely devoted—whether he
should accompany us. The Emperor
suggested that he should be left at
home, but Alix was determined that
he should also be taken,
She Had Her Way.
“Then let Ivan Khanoff take him
by train and meet us in Copenhagen,”
Nicholas suggested,
Ivan Khanoff was a most devoted
Cossack servant, a real fine, full
bearded, straight-nosed specimen of
manhood, who had been appointed
“nurse maid” to the puny little heir.
“No,” said the Empress emphatical
ly. “Alexis Nicolaievitch will travel
with us. The weather is quite calm
and the change will be most benefi
cial.”
“Well, Alix, if you wish it so, 1 wm‘
give orders at once,” said the Tsar,’
for, weak and careless, he always fell‘
in with his wife's suggestions, wheth
er in domestic or political affairs. His
mind was a vacillating one, which
could be influenced at will by the
strong-minded, scheming Empress,
~ One of our great Russian authors
wrote in 1912 facts which, alas! were
only too true, and which was the
“handwriting on the wall,” He de
clared that no misfortune had been
spared to Nicholas IT and had he only
understood their importance he would
have been the most unhappy man in
the whole of his vast Empire. War
humiliated his country, revolution
had enfeebled it, bad and tainted pol
itics had dishonored it, the blood of
thousands of people who perished
quite uselessly cried out for revenge,
the tears of other thousands of un
happy creatures who languished in
prisons or in hopeless exile appealed
to Heaven for the chastisement of
those in authority who sent them to
a living death, Danger surrounded
‘him; treason dogged his footsteps;
hi®x nation disliked and distrusted
him; his family was hostile to him;
his only brother was banished; his
mother was estranged from him; the
wife of his bosom was the vietim of a
strange and mysterious malady; his
only son and the successor to his
throne and crown had been smitten
with an incurable llness, He had no
friends, no disinterested advisers, no
Ministers whose popularity in the
country could add something to his
own. And amid ruin he stood alone,
a solitary figure, the more pathetic
bhecause he did not reallze the trag
edy of his own fate,
Another Plot.
Though none of us on that day at
Tsarskoe-Belo knew it-—not even our
safeguarding, ever-vigilant Okrana,
which cost the empire half a million
roubles yearly—a deep-laid and most
terrible plot was at that moment
afoot against the dynasty, Its Instl-‘
gator, as was long afterward proved,
was the wild, handsome revolution
ist, the woman Vera Baltz, whom the
Empress herself had brought from
Stravropol,
Of what occurred on board the
yacht on that memorable gpring aft
ernoon, that vile and awful plot of
Vera Baltz, which, failing in its main
purpcse, left the heir of the Roma
noffs a cripple and invalid for life, I
will relate. in the next chapter.
Truly, the sinsg of Alexandra [eo
drovona were already being visited
heavily upon her! ‘
The dead Stolypin left Russia a
legacy in the form of M. Sazonov, of
whom British and American readers
have been told muen.
He Was Clever. |
Sazonov was clever, resourceful,
and also a sycophant; also somewhat
remarkable, Stolypin’s wife was his
sister-in-law, and by the grace of the
dead Minister he had been pitch
forked into high official position, Out.
wardly he was a poor, weak person.
At court, when he arrived—one of
“the long procession,” as the Empress
called them—he would shake hands
with one in a nervous kind of way.
He had a cold, clammy hand, and
was of a highly religious turn of
mind, a great admirer of Great Bri
tain, and a close friend of a certain
Mr. Birkbeck, now dead, who lived at
Stratton Strawless, in Norfolk, Eng
land, and with whom he often stayed.
To me M. Sazonov had, before the
war, often expressed his firm convic
tion that Russia should never enter
into the troubles in the Balkans. His
journeys to and fro to England were
unfortunate for him, for when, in
1914, he returned from visits to Paris
and to Balmoral the Russian people
suddenly railed at him and declared
him to be “the meek lamb with a halo
around his head,” as one Petrograd
newspaper put it.
(To Be Continued.)
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luppmmtmg %000.000 for the com
pletion of the overnment raliroad in
Alaska, #nd will also ask Congress for
the settlement in Alagka ry returned
goldlers, who lack the Anancial means
th pay their passage or living expenses,
for the first year or 80.
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SUMMER SESSION OPENS JUNE 26th
z Locaied in the foot-hill of the Blue-Ridge Mountains, it
combines the advantages of a summer resort and school.
Modern buildings, extensive grounds, including park, lake,
dairy farm, etc. New gymnasium, = wimming pool, abundant opportunity
for out-door recreation.
| Regular fall term opens September .sth; offers a standard college course
leading to A.B. degree; speual ourses ncluding domestic science, domestic
art, painting, arts and craft., secretarial courses, etc.
Advantages in music and oratory unsurpassed in America.
Reservations for fall term now being made. For catalog and illustrated
bulletin, address
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Court to Decide on A,
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Taxing Stock Dividenc
(By International News Service |
WASHINGTON, May 24.--A:
decision by the Supreme Court whe
stock div:dends are subject to the
come tax carried In the 1916 law
sought by the Government Solieit
King has (joiln'll with former Supren.
Court Justice Charles E. Hufhen. con
gel for Mrs. Myrtle Macomber, in 1!
Macomber-lisner stock dividend |
test case In a motion filed with the =
preme Court today for a reheurlnr( of o
guments in the case immediately art
the reconvening of the court for th
October term. This case was argu- |
early in the present term, but the Su
preme Court ordered return of the cuvo
to the docket and a reargument.