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er itt 1 StfV I HrAat 44Mn -nrl R-lImrw Forw 1 welve KeligiouV Organizations at the Vast banquet HelcJ at Hengejrer IVlondi I fv Night; November igll; -r, yx "V-; 1 How Ol ga the Tartar Makes Profits By Prophecy tary, factotum of min-laters. Putlatlnfwon ila influence with Nicholas by- discovering' the. French medium and he has Bind been always on the lookout' for-some new, prodigy in Hhe' spiritual world. Olga. pleased and- he decided that-if she 'only -washed Tor a fortnight, she would-make a pre sentable acquaintance for plnlcj Nicholas.

But havtog- ooce been beth, widow of "the i murdered Serge. Grand Duchess Elizabeth is pious, 'but having brought: up on German metaphysics and English lawn tennis, she has a cool head. She offered Olga five rabies 'and gave her no more encouragement. but undaunted, Olga determined to try for Nicholas II. himself.

The imperial patron of cure-priests, fanatics, and mad monks would give her, -she a Olga is a clever rwoman. Dressed in picturesque gypsy rags, with her Efaturally sensual grin into -a look of early Christian humility, she nade.for Peterhof by the" Baltic route. There she made' the acquaintance of the czar's friend. Prince-Dmitri Orloff, and; of other court ofacersv some whom had courted Olga in her. lively Moscow days, and regarded her reform ason a level with the "Resurrection'" of Tolstoy's Katiusha.

One of them "brought her to the man who has the most' evil influence at Russia's court. "This.is- the good looking, stupid guardsman Putiatln, secre- ceptlon at Russia' court. Born' twenr ty-flve years agonal Novo-IbraiWrio in" the semi-Tartar province of Kazan, she was the daughter of a watchman at the Theater 2 csque. sh was trained in wise Tartar fashion, married to a Tartar peasant, who veiled her face and whacked her in ancient Tartar-wise. Suddenly Olga discovered her magic At first the gifts were turned pn the hearts of Tartar lads of Novo-Ibralklno, but when her husband i put her in a brick-kiln and tried to bake her alive, she showed real magic by getting out.

Thereupon she fled to Moscow. According to several of her acquaintances In those days, Olga already told fortunes brilliantly. To one man she said he would fly from his debtors, to a second that he would be expelled from his club for cheating, to a third that he would be hanged. This gives a good idea of Olga's acquaintanceship, and as a fact all these predictions came true. On the strength of them Olga blossomed into a profes- 1 (Continued on Page Thirty-seven), roables on the road.

He found them. The simple man regarded rOlga as a. wonderful prophetess it did not occur to him that possibly Olga was hidden behind a haystack, watching her4 'salted' silver mine. He wrote an article in Moskovsklya Viedo-most, and Olga's fame was universal. Olga had some time before, blossomed Into a Christian.

Having abandoned, she said, the. vicious Moslem heresy, she had vowed to1 hoard her prophetess fees until she "could build so great a church on Zvenlgorod hill that seven and seventy men would never see it." What this undertaking meant no man. knew, but It sounded prophetic and inspired, and Olga's reputalon rose daily. Moscow's' governor, Djunkowski. paid her a visit and so did Gen.

Rein-both, the disgraced prefect. Reinboth was awaiting trial for wholesale robbery and other sins. Straightforward Olga told him he would be convicted. Although Rein-both had lately married the widow of Savva Morosoff, and now owns some AMAZING' STORY of a watchman's daughter who deceived even the officials of the Czar's court But she failed, to penetrate to Nicholas, royal dupe of occult roguesPassion for finding things put the plan out of gear. COMEDY 0F; THE GENEBAL'S diamond-studded watch "found" by Olga Fear of ridicule that prevented her prosecution Now she draws boodle from wealthy Moscow gulls and promises to build a mysterious Church.

4 IS i 'i Written for The Sunday. Courier.by Wilfrid Webster (Specially 1 r- the list, and mow Russia has one or rather a prophetess who, also, has been prematurely exposed amid Homeric laughter from the Incredulous profane. That is why a certain American occultist has hit, upon-a bad time for visiting Russia with the object of seeing the czar. Prophetess. Olga" Batyrleff, after doing many simple and some very complex people out of their has Just made an abortive bid "for re- Moscow.

Nov. 25. Every six months Russia discovers a new inspired priest, mad monk, alth-healer, medium or simply rogue. John of Cronstadt, the Virgin Triapkina, the "mad monk" Uiodor, Vostorgoff. Uhe great Phlllippe.1 Grigorl Rasputin and Nun Darya, have alKhad their, Most of them have been in direct or indirect touch with Nicholas -II.

who has a congenial. weaMtiess' for heing fooled. It needed only a. prophet to' complete 1 7 A A o-' Vifcil 'Mi5' t-A-V I. 4 1 4 i 1 4 -4 -V V.V 1 -v'' I How Olga, the Tartar, Makes Profits by Prophecy.

Putiatln. former military governor of St. Petersburg and Intimate friend of the czar. His loss of a diamond -studded watch to the prophetess Olga is the Joke of all Russia, today. 1 (la rl IWI sional prophetess and half the in Moscow became her clients.

-Olga, became convinced that Moscow is too restless a city to practice prophecy in and that she, must-invest her calling with an air' of mystery and retreat. Therefore, at the age of twenty-three, good-looking in aSvay more gypsy than Tartar; 'she retired to Zvenlgorod. not fap off, where there Is a wondrous monastery Or a wooded. hill. She asked the Archimandrite to be her father.

The, discreet Archimandrite refused. She then to'i monk that on his way to the $12,500,000,. he refused to pay for this lugubrious prediction. "But you will not be punished." added Whereupon Reinboth, so she says, paid her $150, Three" months later Reinboth was duly convicted and sentenced to a year injaiL But he was immediately pardoned by Nicholas IL So. Olga was doubly right.

The-patronage of Djunkowski, Reinboth, and other high officials and criminals made Olga uppish. She resolved to fly for more exalted game. She made what Russian newspapers call a "procession' to Moecow, cadi rot presented to Cran4 Ducv 5 ty Cfei Nicholas of Of mil roy Iti I the most susceptible to tl wZ el fcrfctCar aod occultists. rJ 'rai. depot be would Cad nisa half.