THE RED PROPHETESS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1921, Page 11

THE RED PROPHETESS.

RASPUTIN’S SISTER DISCIPLE. SECRETS OF AMAZING CAREER. (By William Le Queux.) As before the Revolution Rasputin was the power behind the throne and the real ruler of Russia, so to-day one of his notorious “sister disciples” is Lenin’s chief and holds the destinies of the nation within her hand. When, after the Revolution, the Russian official documents were given over to me for the purpose of writing my book, “Rasputin, the Rascal Monk,” I found among other startling facts mention of a young girl named Olga Vogak, the daughter of a Government clerk in Petrograd, who, nt the outbreak of wnr, became a typist in the Ministry of the Interior. Her good looks soon attracted the traitrous Minister, Protopopoff. This man came to England as our friend, was shown all our preparations to beat the Hun, our munition factories, and other secrets, and then returned to Petrograd. Just before this, however, Protopopoff had introduced the pretty Olga to Madame Vyrubova, who in turn took her to Rasputin, whose cult she quickly joined, becoming one of the mock saints, “Sister Disciples,” and learning all the scoundrel’s trickery. Protopopoff’ wished for a trusty messenger to take to his paymasters in Germany a secret report of what he had seen in England, and after consultation wth Rasputin, Olga, being ferociously Anglophobe, was chosen to undertake the journey. DIVULGED THE SECRET. She got to Berlin by a circuitous route, delivered the report of His Excellency the Traitor, an in turn received certain secret instructions to be carried verbally to Rasputin. In due course she reappeared in Petrograd and repeated to the “Father” what she had been told in strictest confidence—a further diabolical plan against Great Britain. From that time she and Mme. Vyrubova were most Jntimate friends until one day the girl was arrested on suspicion of having been in Berlin on some secret mission. For some months she remained in gaol, but on the outbreak of the revolution, after the death of Rasputin, she was released, assumed the name of Gorokhoff. and at once became one of the leading figures in Red Russia. SHE MEETS THE DICTATOR. Being well versed in the tricks, prophecies, and blasphemies of the “Saint” Rasputin, she soon sought Lenin, and after fulsome flattery, disclosed to him her association with Rasputin and Protopopoff. In her Lenin at once saw a useful agent, and they met in Moscow time after* time, after which he sent her to London via New York upon a mission. She was in London for two months and then returned to Moscow. One day, about eight months ago, Olga Gorokhoff, now only 23, entered Lenin’s private room at the Kremlin, a handsome apartment with walls hung with crimson damask, magnificent gilt furniture and a beautiful ceiling painted with Cupid’s heads. This room is day and night guarded outside by two sentries and forbidden to all save those whom Lenin invites to private conference. In that room, indeed, desperate plots against civilisation and humanity are hatched. IMPRESSED BY WILD DREAM.. The girl told him of a strange vision she had seen on three occasions—that revolution had spread throughout the world, that the hated Britain had been overthrown, and that Lenin himself had taken up his quarters in the throne room at Versailles as ruler of Bolshevist Europe! This so impressed Lenin that he at once took the greatest interest in her, with the result that she has now established a circle in Moscow upon the lines of that of the Rascal Monk. One of the most magnificent chambers of the Imperial apartments in the Kremlin has been allotted to her for the holding of her seances, where by trickery and conjuring many strange phenomena have, it is said, been witnessed. The girl, being well aware of Lenin’s weakness, flatters him on every available occasion, while her “visions” are always such as to goad him to further terrorism. Indeed, Lenin and his Soviet magnates have fallen completely beneath the influence of a vicious circle of firebrand women, to whose influence is due to a very great extent the brutalities practised upon those who do not hold extremists’ views. JEWELS FROM VICTIMS. As reward for her efforts to lift the veil from the future, Olga Gorokhoff has been given a great quantity of jewels filched from the bodies of the murdered or stolen from their rightful owners. On the occasions when she holds a reunion or seance at the Kremlin she wears an extremely decollete gown of ptirple silk, heavily embroidered with gold, a diamond tiara, and around her neck, suspended by a fine platinum chain, an enormous emerald beautifully cut but unmounted. It is said that this gem has been taken from the Imperial Crown. Some further facts concerning this extraordinary young woman who rails constantly at Great Britain and her leaders, and who make weekly prophecies of our downfall and destruction, have just been brought to light by the disclosure of a member of Lenin’s mobilisation department, who for some unaccountable reason aroused her hatred and was compelled to flee from Moscow. A CASSANDRA OF BLOOD. It appears that some of the most diabolical deeds committed, by the Bolshevists have been inspired by her, and that she is at the present moihent' Lenin’s chief adviser. He does nothing without first consulting her, and even the counsel of Trotsky or any of his otlter intimates he often disregards because Olga wills it so, or that “Dear Olga has seen a vision.” He never fails to attend the reunions of this mystic circle, and sits agape when the girl, fixing her great black eyes upon him, relates the latest truth as “revealed” to her. She has* even gone the length of concocting prayers in a strange jargon of French, German, and Russian in imitation of those cabalistic incantations of the Rascal Monk, and in these meaningless chants Lenin never fails to join. HER EYE ON ENGLAND. By all this she is waxing enormously wealthy. Her toilet basin is of gold encrusted with stolen gems. Possibly this bowl will one day make its appearance iu the market in order to raise

further money for propaganda in Br> tain.

The spread of revolution in this country is one of Olga’s constant hopes, and she is furthering the movements by every ingenious intrigue of which she is capable. When we read in the Isvestia, the official organ of the Bolshevik Government, that no fewer than 998. executions were carried out in Russia from June 22 to July 22 this year it is really not surprising.

Soviet officialdom is honeycombed by a corruptness never before equalled in any Government. Olga, the “Red Prophetess, as she is called, is greedy and avaricious. She knows that her power is even greater than Lenin’s, therefore she is bent, upon reaping a rich harvest. One day each week her house, though under a strong military guard, is open to callers, and on that day she lends an ear to any who is prepared to pay money for advancement or for the gratification of their avarice or revenge. Smaller commissaries from the provinces sit in her room and bargain for promotion, and higher officials jealous of a rival, pay her the sum demanded for his artest upon a trumped-up charge and perhaps his execution!