Professor Nilus was a priest in tbe Orthodox Church in Russia. He published
the first Russian language edition in 1905. In his introduction he says that a
manuscript had been handed to him about four years before by a friend, who
vouched that it was a true translation of an original document stolen by a woman
from one of the most influential and highly initiated leaders of Freemasonry, at
the end of a meeting of the initiated in France, “that nest of Jewish-masonic
conspiracy.” Nilus adds that the Protocols are not exactly minutes of meetings,
but a report, with a part apparently missing, made by some powerful person.
Nilus admits the impossibility of producing written or oral proof of the
authenticity of this document and says that we must be satisfied with the
circumstanial evidence which abounds.
In January, 1917, Nilus had prepared a second edition but before it could be
put on the market the revolution of March 1917 had taken place and Kerenski
ordered the whole edition to be destroyed. Later Nilus was arrested by the
Bolshevik Cheka, imprisoned and tortured He was exiled and died in Vladimir
on 13th January, 1929

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