Your first
impulses and decisions are always unusually true and to the point, but as
soon as another influence comes in you begin to hesitate and end up by
doing something different from what you originally decided. If you should
succeed in removing this continuous invasion of the dark forces there
would take place at once the birth of a new Russia, and there would return
to you the confidence of the greater number of your subjects. All other
matters would soon settle themselves. You would find people who under
different conditions would be willing to work under your personal
leadership. At the proper time, and that is not far distant, you can of
your own free will organize a ministry which should be responsible to you
and to constitutional institutions. This can be done very simply, without
any force from outside as was the case with the act of October 17, 1905. I
hesitated a long time before venturing to tell you this truth, and I
finally consented when your mother and sister urged me to do so. You are
at the beginning of a new era of disturbances, I will go farther, at the
beginning of a new era of attempts at assassination. Believe me that in
trying to loosen you from the chains that bind you I do it from no motives
of personal interest and of this you and Her Majesty are convinced, but in
the hope and in the expectation of saving you, your throne, and our dear
native land from some very serious and irreparable consequences.
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