The Spirit of Gregory Efimovich Rasputin-Novykh of the village of Pokrovskoe

‘I write and leave behind me this letter at St. Petersburg. I feel that I shall leave life before January 1. I wish to make known to the Russian people, to Papa, to the Russian Mother and to the Children, to the land of Russia, what they must understand. If I am killed by common assassins, and especially by my brothers the Russian peasants, you, Tsar of Russia, will have nothing to fear, remain on your throne and govern, and you, Russian Tsar, will have nothing to fear for your children, they will reign for hundreds of years in Russia. But if I am murdered by boyars, nobles, and if they shed my blood, their hands will remain soiled with my blood, for twenty-five years they will not wash their hands from my blood. They will leave Russia. Brothers will kill brothers, and they will kill each other and hate each other, and for twenty-five years there will be no nobles in the country. Tsar of the land of Russia, if you hear the sound of the bell which will tell you that Gregory has been killed, you must know this: if it was your relations who have wrought my death then no one of your family, that is to say, none of your children or relations will remain alive for more than two years. They will be killed by the Russian people… I shall be killed. I am no longer among the living. Pray, be strong, think of your blessed family. Gregory’

Letter written by Gregory Rasputin in December, 1916. The mystic and adviser to Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra was murdered by Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovic on December 29, 1916.