Twenty minutes later, Kishchenko left the small log cabin with a heavy heart.
He had just seen the original document of "Paul's Curse".
It was said that Tsar Paul had written it in his own blood on the corner of a garment as he lay dying, and then tucked it into the seat cushion of a chair. Later, a servant at Gatchina Palace found it when ordered to burn the furniture and handed it over to officers loyal to Paul.
This, of course, was all fabricated by the Security Bureau.
After Alexander I succeeded to the throne, he dismissed a large number of the former Gatchina Palace servants, several of whom have died from various accidents in recent years.
The Security Bureau selected one of these individuals and pinned the matter of "bringing out Paul's blood-written message" on him.
