Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 114 >

One day, the time it took for the last power of the White Army to collapse after the coup occurred.

In three days, the time it took for Brusilov’s reorganized units, which was a mixture of converts and his own units, to engage in a street battle to annihilate the last stronghold of the St. Petersburg Commune.

Exactly 72 hours later, Olga Nikolaevna Romanova returned to the Winter Palace.

No one called her regent any more.

Thousands of citizens and soldiers worshiped her and cried out.

“My Lady! Long live!”

“Glory be to the Russian Empire!”

And next to him was the Duke of Vostok, no, now the Archduke.

He also received applause.

The invincible, victor, defender of holy land, and countless titles bestowed upon him by the people were poured out along with flower petals, and the flag of the Russian Empire flew.

Governments and media, which could not even understand what had happened in St. Petersburg due to media control and blockade of all communications, were belatedly pouring out numerous speculative articles, and even the governments of each country were waiting for an official announcement from the Russian Empire. .

However, the Russian Empire has yet to give a notice to wait for the official announcement to be made two days later, and has refused to meet with any state ambassador, nor did anyone request an audience.

However, there was one exception.

***

I drank tea.

It used to be a Russian tea famous for its sweetness, but now it has a bitter taste.

The scones prepared by the imperial chef tasted like sand.

“your majesty.”

“Not yet. grandee.”

Olga said softly.

“The Emperor is your father.”

“The authors are already calling you Empress.”

“It’s not that I don’t know. Well, I don’t know what your father will think when he hears the news.”

However, even if Nicholas II recovered and returned, it seemed unlikely that he would regain power.

“Then if you call me Your Majesty, should I also call you husband?”

“I want to make sure. Was your Majesty’s talk of marrying me just a ploy to induce their rebellion?”

“What do you think?”

Olga leaned slightly.

“……Where is Tatiana? I want to see her.”

“This is why I advised her not to write to her directly. I’m afraid you’ll get in a hurry and make things wrong.”

Olga sighed.

“I’m coming with the others right now, so please stay calm.”

“….. All right.”

In the end, the current situation was nothing more than a play that Olga laid the foundation for and that I finished.

A play where you die the moment you leave.

“You took care of one part, which relieved me of my worries. It allowed us to announce that Alexei did not join the rebels voluntarily, but rather escaped and joined the rebels after being detained.”

“If you use it as bait, shouldn’t you make a hole for it to come out of?”

“At first, I didn’t want to use that kid as bait either. In fact, I was trying to find a collateral imperial family who could use it and throw it away… but he volunteered.”

Olga shook her head as if she couldn’t dry it.

“Most of the noble rebels committed suicide, and most of the subordinates converted or died as soon as they understood the situation, so punishment is difficult. You know these names, right?”

I looked at the paperwork. The names varied.

A conservative general in the military, the head of a chaebol, and a member of a prestigious family.

In fact, they eventually had to be wiped out.

The Russian Revolution allowed a significant number of the aristocrats and capitalists to flee abroad, who later joined the fascist organization and influenced even World War II.

But that was not the case here. It’s all going to be tied up for treason.

Stolipin’s land reform will also gain momentum if this is the case. Existing nobles will buy in the face of a fearful atmosphere that will last for a while, hand over cash or securities in return for cooperation in land reform, or the right to bid for state-run projects or to participate in state projects. It will make it much easier to put pressure on your back.

“I will leave the right to escape their life or death to the duke.”

“What about the next page?”

“They are the masterminds of the communist riots. First, I spent the whole day yesterday and made a list, and it is up to you to investigate.”

I saw the name that was on top of my head.

Lev Trotsky. Death, body identification. judged to be a scourge of civil war.

Other than that, there were several other names I knew, but I couldn’t find the name I was looking for.

In the first place, there is no punishment worthy of a sentence other than the death penalty for such a mastermind, and even simple participants cannot avoid the fate of rotting in the Gulag for the rest of their lives.

Even just a quick glance, there were listed names that I had seen at least once in the 21st century.

There were many people who lacked their abilities, but there was already one conclusion.

You can’t keep them alive.

“You know what? No one can stop you now.”

“Olga.”

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My words were shortened.

From this moment on, it meant that we were going to have a conversation with the monarch and his servants instead of… in a slightly different relationship.

“I have a face too. No matter how showy it was… what would my face be if I broke my engagement twice?”

“….. Stop acting, which you’re not good at, because I’ve been wearing a mask for too long, so now I just want to tell the truth.”

Then, Olga’s expression changed vaguely.

“Yeah, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t selfish.”

“……I am responsible.”

“I can take responsibility.”

I closed my eyes and covered my face.

“how……..”

“You can take responsibility for that, even after you become my husband, it’s okay. ‘Cause I’ll eat the swear words, the empress who stole her sister’s man because she was blinded by power, wouldn’t it be in a storybook? I’ll take a look at the secret meeting, it’s the Ice Empress’s last conscience.”

“Olga.”

“……”

“Did you apologize to Tatiana?”

“…… I couldn’t, yes, that was more urgent than anything else.”

Olga laughed bitterly. It’s been a while since I haven’t met the younger brothers in person, no, I couldn’t send and receive letters properly.

We didn’t talk, we didn’t make eye contact, we didn’t exchange letters because we were pretending to be fighting the Cold War over Tatiana. In the midst of this, he was only sorry and proud of his younger brothers who followed his circumventive instructions very well.

“Yeah, I accidentally hurt Tatiana without even telling her in advance. It’s my fault. It would be nice if you could understand…”

She bowed her head slightly.

“Even if you don’t understand, I should apologize like you said.”

“I have to go back to the front line, and the war with China has to end.”

Although there is a high possibility that it will end with a rough territorial concession and payment of reparations. In any case, even if the war is over, the fact that he suddenly entrusted himself with an agent and ran only on his body is a big factor in anxiety.

“Yes, it is.”

I knelt toward her, towards my lord, and tried to kiss the back of her hand. it was goodbye

But she hid her hand.

“I’ll take it in installments.”

“your majesty.”

When I took a step back and tried to return to the relationship between the general and the empress, she gave me a slightly regretful expression.

“When you come back, I will show you a new Russia.”

***

Germany, Frankfurt. The waiting room at the train station.

“Awesome, really great.”

The man read the newspaper as if possessed.

After a few days of speculative articles, after the official announcement of the Russian Empire, the front pages of newspapers in Europe and America were covered with the Russian civil war.

Even the joke of three days was actually not enough. Doesn’t it mean that the capital was protected for only three days and then collapsed without being able to advance outside the capital?

What made him even more impressed was his ability to follow up. No, this isn’t just about being resourceful.

“Duke of Vostok, his work.”

From the beginning, the rebel forces must have played in his hands. From the empress’s reckless actions to the swift suppression of the rebellion, to the duke himself, who returned to the capital at such a speed that it would be unreasonable to say that he moved as soon as he heard the news of the rebellion, he could only interpret it that way.

It is the quintessence of political engineering and sophisticated, meticulous and even elegant, which covered the soil as soon as the enemy dug a trap and entered the pit.

‘After all, he is Ubermensch.’

it has no choice but to

He defeated the great Aryans, wiped out the nobility itself, and was able to freely roam the world. Now, the world cannot be discussed without him.

If all this is not proof that he is a superman, what would it be?

“Stupid things. In the end, that’s how it happened.”

At that moment, I heard a swear word from the side.

“what?”

“Oh, excuse me, I’m a little angry.”

“Can you tell what happened that made you angry?”

“There were a few people I was working with. I thought the business was risky, so I told them to quit and see how things turn, but this is my chance. There is no chance this time or anything like this. After talking like this, it was ruined.

“Hey, there are so many idiots in the world.”

“That’s right.”

“This is also a relationship, so let’s use a common name. Adolf Hitler. Ex-military, angry.”

“Filipov, from Russia, first of all a poet and writer. Now is. Where are you going?”

“Munich, the first destination is there.”

“I heard that Munich is a beautiful city.”

“Where are you going?”

“Nothing in particular, I’m just wandering around. How did it even flow into Germany?”

“Then will you go with me? I don’t think I’ll be bored if we go together.”

“Hmm.”

Filipov pondered for a moment. He is not a proud person.

However, if you have a German companion, there is little reason to be suspicious.

“It’s good. I’m glad I got a companion I didn’t expect, hahaha!”

***

At the same time, London, England.

“Based on all these circumstances, in the end, this event can be seen as a play and a collaboration between the Duke of Vostok and Empress Olga. After inducing rebellion and suppressing it at once, we declared martial law and created an atmosphere of fear in the country.”

“And when the situation is over, the tsar’s authority will be unrivaled by anyone.”

“To be precise, all the challengers will die. In fact, we find it strange that none of the royal families were executed. According to our judgment, the reason Prince Alexei is alive is simply because he cares about the outside world, and we agree that there is a high possibility that he will be killed without even a mouse or a bird if he can’t even dream of going out and is quiet a little bit.”

“her.”

George V shook his head. He had put out his tongue at the cruelty of his own nephew.

“It is presumed that most of the princesses will either marry foreign monarchs or be imprisoned.”

“Well……”

George V saw his son present. He originally thought of marrying his son Olga, but under the current circumstances, it would be impossible.

No, in the first place, relations between the Russian Empire and Britain were always deteriorating. Considering the public sentiment, it must be difficult, King George V neatly abandoned the plan.

“The military and aristocratic forces will be hit with virtually extinction from this incident. In the end, it appears that the Home Office has accomplished its mission. To return power to the tsar.”

In other words, as long as this has happened, any attempt to create an internal military force in any country will inevitably fail.

The reason is simple. As a result of this incident, the origin of the Internal Affairs Force is the enlisted group of the head of state, and due to the nature of it being in charge of domestic security, it is not only good for a coup d’etat, but also has a separate command system with the military and external monitoring is impossible, so there is no way to stop it. it will be revealed

The moment whoever tries to create an internal affairs force, there is a high possibility that they will be buried under the general offensive of all the established powers. They will surely try to dismantle the organization, even with treacherous intentions such as treason or embezzlement through double ledgers.

“Then what can we Britain gain from this?”

“Not at the moment. What is certain, however, is that Russia’s current regime is extremely stable and is unlikely to change unless there is a huge upheaval in the coming decades.”