Word: monke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buddhist abbot of the monastery. The War Lord who has been all his life a scholar, and a great one, was said to have explained that his last military followers had finally deserted him, and that he wished to become a bonze or Buddhist monk and to retire utterly from the world. What good Father Abbot would reject the chance to garner such...
William and Tilli go down to Monk's Hall, where Trevor at his cousin's expense has organized an asylum for greedy and communistic artists. Tilli's purpose has a great deal to do with Trevor, whose casual desertion of her in London has moved her to the effort of retaliation. Monk's Hall is swept by the draughts of a thousand petty enmities, jealousies, hungers, hatreds. When William finds Trevor in his wife's bedroom he does the natural thing, the thing that was expected of him. He takes a shotgun and follows...
Believing that to the influence of Rasputin all Russia's misfortunes in the early part of the War could be traced, the author-prince tells of the formation of a conspiracy to kill the monk: "Our house on the Moika was chosen as the place where the project was to be carried out. A suite of rooms there was being adapted for my own use and would serve our purpose better than anything else. My associations with Rasputin would afford me an opportunity of persuading him to come and visit...
Rasputin ate greedily of the cake but it did not seem to affect him. He drank poisoned wine, seemingly without effect. "Play something cheerful. I like to hear you sing," said the monk to his worried host, Prince Yussupov. He sang...
...even then Rasputin did not die. Alarmed and amazed, Prince Yussupov called in the other conspirators. Entering the room they saw the monk crawling across the floor "bellowing and snorting like a wounded animal." Several more shots were fired and the body of the monk was tossed over the bridge, as planned...