Andrew Cook - To Kill Rasputin

6 Ibid .

7 Ibid ., and My Father , Maria Rasputina (Cassell & Co, 1934), p.111.

8 Ibid .

9 See note 4 above.

10 Rasputin, the Last Word , Edvard Radzinski (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p.477.

11 Ibid ., p.482.

12 Ibid ., p.480.

13 See note 4 above.

14 Ibid .

15 Rasputin, the Last Word , Edvard Radzinski (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p.482.

16 Professor Derrick Pounder, Senior Home Office Pathologist and Head of Forensic Medicine, University of Dundee, was commissioned by the author in February 2005 to carry out a review of the ballistics evidence and concluded the forehead wound was caused by an unjacketed bullet. The Browning pistol fires only jacketed bullets.

17 A revised edition, Rasputin: The History of the Crime , was published by Yauza, Moscow, in 2004.

18 Ibid. , chapter 18.

19 A Watchman Makes His Rounds , Sir Samuel Hoare (unpublished 1959 memoir of Hoare’s time in Russia), p.72, Templewood Papers, Part II, File 1 (34), CUL.

20 The Fourth Seal , Sir Samuel Hoare (Heinemann, 1930), p.156.

1 Dnevnik ,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.62.

2 Ibid ., p.63.

3 Ibid ., p.65.

4 Rasputin , Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.133.

5 Ibid ., p.134.

6 Ibid ., p.138ff.

7 Dnevnik ,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.80ff.

8 Rasputin , Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.134/135.

9 Dnevnik ,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.62/63.

10 Rasputin , Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.135.

11 Dnevnik ,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.65.

12 Rasputin , Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.148.

13 Ibid ., p.149.

14 Dnevnik ,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.70–74.

15 Rasputin , Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.149.

16 Dnevnik ,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.70–74.

17 Ibid .

18 Rasputin , Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.150.

19 Dnevnik , V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.75. For Yusupov’s June 1917 account see The Russian Diary of an Englishman , Anon. (the Hon. Albert Stopford), (Heinemann, 1919), p.83.

20 Rasputin , Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.153.

21 Dnevnik ,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.79.

22 Ibid ., p.81.

23 Rasputin , Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.157/158.

24 Irina Yusupov v MGM 1933, Fanny Holtzman Papers, Series A, Sub-series 1, Box 16, Folders 5-10, American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio; Felix Yusupov v CBS 1965, Series A, Sub-series 1, Box 15, Folders 5-12, American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio. See also The Times Law Reports, Friday 17 August 1934, Vol. 1, p.581ff.

25 ‘The Assassination of Rasputin’, Source Records of the Great War, Stanislaus Lazovert, Vol.V, ed. Charles F. Horne (National Alumni, 1923), p.86.

26 Ibid .

27 Ibid ., p.87.

28 Lost Splendour , Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1953), p.228.

29 ‘The Assassination of Rasputin’, Stanislaus Lazovert, p.88.

30 Dnevnik ,V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.80ff.

1 Report of Autopsy on the Body of Grigori Rasputin by Professor Kossorotov, 20 December 1916, Museum of Political History, St Petersburg.

2 My Father, Maria Rasputina (Cassell & Co, 1934), p.111.

3 The Yusupov Palace , Galina Sveshnikova, p.75.

4 Report by Professor Derrick Pounder, Senior Home Office Pathologist and Head of Forensic Medicine, University of Dundee, August 2004, commissioned by the author.

5 Dnevnik , V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.21.

6 See note 1 above.

7 Statement by Stepan Beletski to Provisional Government Extraordinary Commission 1917, Fond 1467, Schedule 1, Case 567, GARF, Moscow.

8 Rasputin , Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.163.

9 Dnevnik , V.M. Purishkevich (National Reklama, 1923), p.70ff.

10 Report The Opinion of the Specialists, 18-30 June 1993, by V.V. Zharov, Igor Panov and Valery Vasilevsky of the Moscow Forensic Medical Analysis Bureau (unpublished review of the 1916 autopsy undertaken by Professor Kossorotov).

11 Interview of Vladimir Zharov by Richard Cullen and Ilya Gavrilov, Who Killed Rasputin ?, Timewatch, broadcast BBC 2, Friday 1 October 2004, 8.00p.m.

12 See note 1 above.

13 This conclusion, articulated by Richard Cullen in the BBC Timewatch episode Who Killed Rasputin? (see broadcast details in note 11 above), is the most plausible explanation.

14 Report by Professor Derrick Pounder, Senior Home Office Pathologist and Head of Forensic Medicine, University of Dundee, February 2005, commissioned by the author.

15 Ibid .

16 Ibid .

17 Ibid .

18 Ibid .

19 See note 10 above.

20 On Rayner’s death in 1961, Rose Jones gave a brief account of his life to the Nuneaton Observer (10 March 1961). The story was featured under the headline ‘Was in Palace When Rasputin was Killed’.

21 Diary of William J. Compton, 1916; also, General Index of Personnel from World War 1, William John Compton #9440, Red Cross Archive, London.

22 Scale recalls the events surrounding the Romanian oil fields operation in a letter to General C. Ismay dated 19 September 1940 (Scale Papers).

23 Letter from Capt. Stephen Alley to Capt. J.D. Scale, 7 January 1917 (Alley Papers).

24 To the Chief of the Public Security Department, Petrograd, 22 February 1917, Fond 102, Schedule 357, Case 115, GARF, Moscow.

25 See note 7 above.

26 Rasputin: A History of the Crime , Oleg Shishkin, chapter 21ff.

27 ‘Britain “helped Rasputin’s killers”’ by Phil Tomaselli, BBC History Magazine , April 2003, p.6.

28 Interview with Mark Lane, grandson of William Compton, 5 February 2005.

29 Entry 148, Register of Births in the Registration District of Upton-on-Severn, in the Sub-district of Kempsey in the County of Worcester, William John Compton, 27 January 1881.

30 Entry 330, Register of Deaths in the Registration District of Abingdon in the County of Berkshire, 6 March 1961, Oswald Rayner, Barrister at Law (retired).

31 Interview with Gordon Rayner, nephew of Oswald Rayner, 13 March 2004, Birmingham;interview with Myra Whelch and Michael Winwood, first cousins of Oswald Rayner, 6 November 2004, Birmingham.

32 Rasputin , Prince Yusupov (Jonathan Cape, 1927), p.180ff.

1 Rasputin, the Last Word , Edvard Radzinski (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p.492ff

2 Ibid ., p.495

3 Ibid .

4 See note 31, chapter 11 notes.

5 Ransome is best known today for his bestselling children’s book Swallows and Amazons . His MI5 file, # PF R.301 Vols 1 & 2, was released to the National Archive in February 2005, TNA KV2/1903–1904.

6 Augustus Agar won the VC for sinking the Soviet cruiser Oleg in June 1919. He was commanding a skimmer motor launch torpedo boat (CMB 4) that had been pioneered by SIS. For a full account of this mission see Baltic Episode , Augustus Agar, 1963.

7 Entry 263, Register of Deaths in the Registration District of Battle in the county of East Sussex, John Dymoke Scale, 22 April 1949.