Several years later he resumed his anti-Semitic agitation and became one of the most vicious vilifiers of the Jewish people on the eve of the notorious Beilis affair which was staged by the Russian government for the purpose of discrediting the Jews and of justifying the Russian governmental anti-Jewish policy before the world.

After the collapse of the Beilis prosecution, which involved the absurd charge of ritual murder, Lutostansky approached several prominent wealthy Jews with an offer to retract his new charges against the Jews, provided they would pay him a certain amount of money for his book.

The Jews declined to have anything to do with the charlatan who had caused so much harm to the Jews of Russia by his monstrous accusations.

His works attracted special attention because of the fact that they were endorsed and supported by Russian Grand Dukes and by the Dowager Empress of Russia.
While examining one of his books entitled, "The Talmud and the Jews," published in 1907, in which he promised the publication of "the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion" in his forthcoming volume, I came upon an amazing passage in his introduction, outlining an alleged secret plan of the Jews to gain world domination, which I find reproduced, word for word, with but a few phrases changed, in the epilogue of "the Russian mystic," Sergius Nilus.

Did Sergius Nilus plagiarize Lutostansky?
Or was it Lutostansky who plagiarized Nilus?
Or were they one and the same person?
At any rate, both served the purposes of the "Black Hundreds" against the Jews, and both employed the same weapons.
Here is a translation of Lutostansky's introduction: From Lutostansky's Introduction, 1907 EXPLANATION OF THE ZIONIST SYMBOLIC SNAKE "The political plan represented in the form of a snake is very old and was devised by the Judaean sages in theory, and in the course of historical developments it is elaborated and augmented by their initiated followers.