'May Divine acts show on him.' "This manuscript was called 'the protocols of the Zionist Men of Wisdom,' and it was given to me by the now deceased leader of the Tchernigov nobility, who later became vice-governor of Stavropol, Alexis Nikolayevitch Sukhotin.

I had already begun to work with my pen for the glory of the Lord, and I was friendly with Sukhotin.
_He was a man of my opinion_, that is, extremely conservative, as they are now termed.
"Sukhotin told me that he in turn had obtained the manuscript from a lady who always lived abroad.

This lady was a noblewoman from Tchernigov.

He mentioned her by name, but I have forgotten it.

He said that she obtained it in some mysterious way, by theft, I believe.
"Sukhotin also said that one copy of the manuscript was given by this lady to Sipiagin, the Minister of the Interior, upon her return from abroad, and that Sipiagin was subsequently killed.