Nicholas and Alexandra1971

Tsar Nicholas II:
What you have done for the Empire in the years since Witte retired has been nothing short of a miracle.

Prime Minister Stolypin:
I am not the one holding Russia together, you are! Here are the plans for the Tricentennial Tour across all of Russia. The tour is going to be long and taxing, but it is important that the people see that the dynasty is permanent and strong.

Tsar Nicholas II:
Anything else?

Prime Minister Stolypin:
I have these as well. Stolypin produces a dossier Police reports about Grigori Efifvomitch Rasputin. Drunk half the time. Carousing with women all throughout Saint Petersburg. Whores, officer's wives, you name it. I was also shown these.

Stolypin shows Tsar anti-monarchy cartoons. One depicts a topless Tsaritsa and another shows the Tsar and Tsaritsa sitting in Rasputin's lap

Tsar Nicholas II:
Damn it, what is wrong with the Ohkrana? Can't 10,000 secret agents find a printing press?

[Tsar crumples up cartoons and throws them into the Black Sea]

Prime Minister Stolypin:
It is a network. The agents cannot find them all. You need to send Rasputin back to Pokrovskoe, or at least somewhere away from Petersburg. They are talking about it in the Duma.

Tsar Nicholas II:
Damn that Witte! He made me give a parliament to the people.

Prime Minister Stolypin:
I do not like the Duma any more than you do but it is better for the commoners to feel they have a voice in government instead of being wooed by the rebels. Still, people are wondering why you invite Rasputin to be around your family.

Tsar Nicholas II:
You know why.

Prime Minister Stolypin:
I do, but the people do not!