Vergiftung des Zaren Nikolaus I.

The author of this document refutes Fleischhauer's claim that Nicholas I was poisoned by a Jew, by citing Nikolai Evgenevich Markov's article published in the antisemitic newspaper Novoie Wremia on the 18th of February 1923. The article is entitled as 'Ist das ein Rätsel?' (Is this a mystery?) in which N. Markow explains that he is in possession of all manuscripts of the Czar since 1870. After the defeat of the Russian army in the Crimean War in 1855, Czar Nicholas I was unable to live with the shame and decided to commit suicide. He asked his doctor for poison. The doctor did not dare to disobey and gave him the poison. At his deathbed, the Czar explained to his son Alexander II that his doctor was not a Jew. Also the claim that Alexander III had been poisoned by his doctor is wrong. Although his doctor was a Jew, nobody, not even the anti-Semites, has ever claimed that he killed the Czar. This claim only came up as part of the propaganda after the revolution.

Ist das ein Rätsel Markov, N. E. Nowoje Wremja