Everyone knows that the “elder” Grigory Rasputin had a huge influence on the last Russian emperor Nicholas II and his family (for which he paid with his life). Meanwhile, Rasputin was by no means the first to advise the last Romanovs on mystical issues.
Terakuto and a cane that shines in gold
In 1891, while traveling across Japan, the future Emperor Nicholas II visited the blind soothsayer Terakuto. What he heard from the blind man was by no means comforting: he said that the whole family of Nicholas would face a martyr's death, and Russia - "great sorrows and upheavals." In addition, Terakuto warned the Tsarevich about the impending attempt on his life: "Danger hovers over your head, but death will recede and the cane will be stronger than the sword … and the cane will shine with brilliance." A few days later, in Kyoto, a Japanese man struck Nikolai on the head with a saber, but the wound turned out to be harmless. Prince George of Greece, who was present, struck the attacker with a bamboo cane, which saved the heir's life. When Nicholas and George returned to Russia, Emperor Alexander III ordered to make a frame of gold and diamonds for the prince's cane. This is how the prophecy of the blind man came true … Apparently, the part concerning other upcoming events sunk into the head of the future king. One way or another, all his life he was looking for contacts with various "elders" and prophets.
Seraphim of Sarov's message
On July 20, 1903, Nicholas II visited Sarov, where the elderly widow of the secretary of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov, Elena Motovilova, handed him a letter written by Seraphim in 1832. On the envelope was the inscription: "To the last king."
The king did not read the message right away, but took it with him. Together with the empress and a large retinue, on the same day, they went to the blessed Paraskeva of Sarov (Pasha of Sarov). According to sources, the eldress predicted to the Tsar and Tsarina the birth of an heir, the beginning of World War I and, apparently, the fatal end of the Romanovs …
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And in the evening, according to testimonies, Nikolai read a letter from Father Seraphim. Allegedly, it said: "The last reign is coming, the sovereign and the heir will take a violent death …"
Holy fools at the royal court
The blessed and holy fools were brought to the imperial residence in Tsarskoye Selo more than once, who supposedly could prophesy. Among them were, for example, the feeble-minded peasant women Matronushka Barefoot and Daria Osipova, the Kuban soldier Vasily Tkachenko, the monk Miron from the Ladoga monastery, a certain Demchinsky, who was mainly engaged in the preparation of meteorological forecasts, and, finally, Mitka Kolyaba from Kozelsk, who was born not only feeble-minded, but also and lame, half-blind, deaf, almost dumb and with stumps instead of hands … It was only possible to communicate with Mitka through an "interpreter", since he did not speak, but only growled, yelled, made strange guttural sounds and waved his stumps … True, of special benefit to the royal the family was not from any of these poor people.
Meetings with Cheiro
Twice Nikolai Romanov met with the famous English astrologer and seer Luis Hamon, better known as Cheiro. The first time this happened in August 1896. Earlier, the Prince of Wales asked Cheiro to draw up a horoscope for the Russian tsar, who was his relative. The prediction made by the forecaster was as follows: “Whoever this person is, his date of birth, numbers and other data show that during his life he will often deal with the danger of the horrors of war and bloodshed; that he will do everything in his power to prevent this, but his Destiny is so deeply tied to such things that his name will be sealed with two of the bloodiest and most damned wars that have ever been known, and that at the end of the II war he will lose everything he loved the most;his family will be massacred and he himself will be violently killed."
Nikolai was so depressed by the prediction that he wished to personally meet with Cheiro and incognito came to his office in Oxford. The astrologer gave him advice, confirming everything that was contained in the previous forecast, and was able to substantiate his prophecies.
Their second meeting took place in the summer of 1907, when Cheiro arrived in St. Petersburg on his business. They met in Peterhof and talked in private for several hours. The Englishman told the Russian emperor that 1917 would be fatal for him and his family.
Magic protection
Cheiro was not the only foreign mystic to whom Nicholas II turned. Once the French magician Philippe Nizier, who practiced "occult healing", hypnosis, divination, as well as reincarnation and necromancy, visited the royal chambers. Communication with him led to a false pregnancy with the queen, who dreamed of an heir. Subsequently, he was driven away from the Russian court, accused of charlatanism.
The French occultist Papus (his real name was Gerard Anaclet Vincent Encausse) arrived in Russia in 1901 in order to found a "school of psychophysiology." Instead, he founded a lodge of the Martinist Order, of which the emperor himself and some of his entourage became members. However, Papus did not stay in Russia and visited it again only in 1905.
This time Nikolai turned to the magician with a request to summon the spirit of his late father, Alexander III. Falling into a trance, the medium began to speak as if not in his own voice: “You must suppress the beginning revolution by all means … But, alas, it will be reborn later, and then a catastrophe is inevitable … Whatever happens, take heart, my son, and don't stop fighting …"
The emperor asked Papus if he could prevent the terrible events. The occultist promised to "put" the king with magical protection, but warned that it would only act while he was alive. The magician died in October 1916. “Papus is dead, so we are doomed,” the Empress wrote to her husband, who was at the front at that time. No occult measures could prevent the fatal events that led to the death of the last Russian tsar and his family.
Irina Shlionskaya
