Excerpt from The Mad Monk of Russia, Iliodor: Life, Memoirs, and Confessions of Sergei Michailovich Trufanoff (Iliodor); Illustrated With Photographs Everything that I write in this book I have seen and heard myself. What I have seen and heard I could not write before my arrival in this great and free country, the United States; and even here until the last few months, owing to a combination of ih auspicious circumstances and political reasons, I have not been able to publish anything relating to the former Russian court and the causes which brought about the Russian Revolution. In consequence, my revelations in their complete form have never before seen the light. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.