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Show I MAD MONK OF RUSSIA I 1 f ." f i ji x i if t s X t v. ' I X , - ' . s v XS V N x Sergius Miehailow Trufnnoff, better known as "Illiodor, the Mad Monk of Russia," was up to the beginning of the war a chaplain of the imperial court at Petrograd. He was an intimate inti-mate of Gregory Kasputin, the Siberian Sibe-rian peasant priest and court confessor whose denth was recently announced. Here is how the "mad monk" got hid name, according to his own version: "Perhaps I may recall the fact that when people want to kill a dog and need an excuse to do it they spread the report that the dog Is mad. Well, in Russia they wanted to kill me, or do away with me in some other fashion fash-ion and so they told the people I w&s mad crazy, perhaps is a better word. So they called me "Illiodor, the crazy monk." |