04.09.2025, Aleksandrovskoye.
The court of Tsar Nicholas II was just as Masonic as those who brought about its downfall, i.e. leaders of the February Revolution, political scientist, philosopher, and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan wrote in his article The Sharp Turn, published in Essence of Time newspaper, issue 637.
In his reflections, the political scientist turns to his family history, recalling his great-grandmother, Elizaveta Sergeyevna Cholovskaya, née Princess Meshcherskaya.
“She died in Moscow during the war, before I was born, and was a person of leftist, specifically Socialist Revolutionary, convictions. Strange as it may seem, such things did happen with people of the highest class who were not indifferent to the suffering of the people,” Kurginyan noted, emphasizing that such cases were not rare in the Soviet era.
“And her own sister bequeathed her inheritance to the church and, by Soviet standards, was considered an extreme reactionary,” he continued, describing the inner conflicts of his family. This created a complex atmosphere where different worldviews on life and politics collided.
Kurginyan also cites words from his great-aunt, who cursed not only the Bolsheviks but also Jews and Caucasians: “What do these Bolsheviks know about Alice [ Empress of Russia Alexandra Feodorovna, born Alix of Hesse and by Rhine]? Were they ever invited to Tsarskoye Selo? But I was there and visited her chapel. Do you think I didn’t see that it was purely a Martinist chapel?”
“She cursed Stalin during his lifetime. But she called him God’s scourge, punishing the greatest evil, which in her view were the Romanovs,” the political scientist recalled.
In Kurginyan’s opinion, the Tsarist court was far from impeccable and innocent.February re
“The court was just as Masonic as its destroyers,” he said, stressing the ambiguity of the relationships between different political forces of the time.
“So don’t try to sell us sweet nonsense about the Romanovs and the Tsarist court supposedly destroyed by Masons. The court was just as Masonic as its destroyers, i.e. leaders of the February Revolution. And it was extremely ambiguous. But the idea that the Bolsheviks were Masons, that is highly doubtful,” Kurginyan argued.
He also debunked the myth of the Bolsheviks’ alleged Masonic affiliation: “They were far too low-status for that.”
Nevertheless, Kurginyan does not exclude the possibility of some Masonic connections among the Bolsheviks, “But even if someone among them was a Mason, there were an order of magnitude fewer than in the Emperor’s entourage.”
The political scientist also touched upon Rasputin and his influence over the royal family. He recalled that his great-aunt claimed Rasputin definitely performed ecstatic rituals of Khlysts.
“She said it was unlikely (hear that — unlikely!) that Alice herself and her lady-in-waiting, Vyroubova, led the ship — that is, performed Khlyst rituals. But then she added that Rasputin certainly did. And that in this way, in effect, the empire was ruled by a Khlyst and the House of Hesse obsessed with Masonic (at best, Martinist) occultism,” Kurginyan emphasized.
This, he argued, shows that occultism and mysticism played a significant role in the life of the court. The political scientist stressed that the empire was effectively governed not only by the Romanovs but also by occult forces.
