Gerard Shelley

[5] In April 1915 he stayed on the family estate in Bogoroditsk; he visited Moscow and met with Grigori Rasputin in the atelier of a sculptor, probably Naoum Aronson.

On 26 March, Rasputin is said, while inebriated, to have opened his trousers and waved his "reproductive organ" in front of a group of female gypsy singers in the Yar restaurant.

[8] In St. Peterburg, Shelley met with Count Vladimir Frederiks, and again with Rasputin and the Empress, accompanied by her daughter Grand Duchess Tatiana, drinking tea in his apartment.

The tree-tops swayed in the light breeze with a lulling rustle, while the cries of the awakening wild fowl resounded in the hollow depths of the mossy, waylays forest.

In this choir of nature, the voice of the Staretz, singing some melodious, half-melancholy hymn or psalm of old Slavonic, rose and fell like the wave of sound from a deep-toned bell.

Back in Moscow he wrote about free love and the changing attitude to marriage in the early years of communist Russia; the murdering of Tsar Nicholas II (at that time it was not known the whole family was killed); the socialists, the anarchists, the Jews in the Bolshevik party (see also Jewish Bolshevism); the famine, the ruble, the escape of Alexander Krivoshein, his meetings with the wife of Mikhail Pokrovsky and Sinn Féin.

He escaped, dressed as a woman, stuck under the seats in a train from Moscow to Finland[5][11][12] surrounded by a group of French women, who together bribed the chief Red Guard.

[13] But perhaps the most impressive piece of evidence concerning the supremacy of the Jew in the Russian Revolution is that furnished in a report drawn up by Mr. Gerard Shelley, an Englishman who was present in Russia in 1918.

The Russian Anarchists, he points out, are entirely distinct from the Bolsheviks, and in their individualism, which rims to extraordinary extremes, have much more in common with the Slav temperament than with the highly concentrated system of government associated with Trotsky and his brethren.

He pointed out that Marxism, on which Bolshevism is founded, really did not express the political side of the Russian character, and that the Bolsheviks were not sincere Socialists or Communists, but Jews, working for the ulterior motives of Judaism.

During World War II, Shelley translated poems by Aleksandr Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Boris Pasternak and Alexander Blok.

[15][clarification needed] Under the guidance of Shelley, the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem produced a brochure entitled "An Account of the Old Roman Catholic Church" in 1964.