I asked, with great simplicity: "Are all your subjects
Christians, prince?"
"All my European subjects are, or deem themselves so," returned
he; "and they are the most faithful and true subjects I have."
Who could doubt, after this, that he was the Czar of Russia? I
have nevertheless had reasons to doubt of his identity since that
period, and which of my conjectures is right I believe the God of
Heaven only knows, for I do not. I shall go on to write such
things as I remember, and, if anyone shall ever take the trouble to
read over these confessions, such a one will judge for himself. It
will be observed that, since ever I fell in with this extraordinary
person, I have written about him only, and I must continue to do
so to the end of this memoir, as I have performed no great or
interesting action in which he had not a principal share.
He came to me one day and said: "We must not linger thus in
executing what we have resolved on. We have much before our
hands to perform for the benefit of mankind, both civil as well as
religious. Let us do what we have to do here, and then we must
wend our way to other cities, and perhaps to other countries.
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