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Feodor Roditchev, one of Russia's most famous liberals, a member of the
nobility, a former member of the Duma, writing recently of the Nilus
protocols and of Sukhotin whom Nilus described as a man of his own
opinion, says:
"For months I hear on all sides about the Nilus book and its
success in England, and I am asked, Who is Nilus? There was a
Nilus, an associate justice of the Moscow District Court. It is
said that the manuscript was given to Nilus by Sukhotin, the
notorious zemstvo official of Chernsk.
"The Berlin edition contains no mention of Sukhotin, but in that
edition Nilus said, 'Pray for the soul of the boyar Alexis.'
"The name of the notorious Alexey Nikolayevitch Sukhotin means
nothing to the present generation. But there was a time when his
name attracted attention.
"Sukhotin arrested the peasants of a whole village for refusing to
cart manure from his stables because the animals there were
infected with glanders. Judge Tsurikov released the peasants.
Tsurikov was removed for this, while Sukhotin justified his act by
writing to the Minister of the Interior, Durnovo, that he had
arrested the peasants not because they refused to cart his manure
but because they dared disobey him as a zemstvo official. The
reactionary Chernsk nobility made Sukhotin marshal of nobility. So
it was this man who furnished the protocols of the secret meetings
of the representatives of Zion! But how did Sukhotin get the
protocols? An unknown friend had brought them to him.
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