trict 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. They were
given to him by an unknown lady who had received them from an
unknown but energetic participant in the Basle Congress. Is this
credible? Well, then, there is another version of the origin of the
protocols--but that is for the German readers. The Russian
government sent a spy to the Basle Congress. He did not go to the
Congress himself, but bribed one of the participants. He was
carrying the protocols from Basle to Frankfurt to the local masonic
organization. He stopped on the way in a little town, and gave the
protocols to the spy. He engaged copyists who worked all night and
copied the protocols.

"In the first Russian version the protocols were supposed to have
been brought to Russia in French. According to the German version,
the protocols were copied, consequently they were in German, but
the most important thing is that the protocols are not protocols at
all, but a monograph--which could be called 'the dream of a member
of the Black Hundreds.'"

A distinguished Russian publicist says of the sponsor of the "protocols"
as follows:

"In Russia the problems of Christianity and Judaism have been
studied by such men as Vladimir Solovyov, Professor Troi