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For a brief while the town was formed
into two camps, and the Chief of Police, a prudent official, was at his
wit's end what to do with these inflammable elements, seeing that the
ex-monk's followers had now swelled to several hundreds and contained
not a few of the more influential aristocrats of the city. In this
dilemma, he applied for instruction to the Procurator of the Holy
Synod. That gentleman, having considered the case, rashly decided that
a visionary of this stamp might be useful for furthering certain
projects of his own. He hoped, by placing under an obligation, to
fashion out of the young reformer an amenable instrument--a
miscalculation which he lived (though not for long) to repent. Under
the Procurator's aegis, Bazhakuloff was summoned to the Capital. The
political period was beginning. Moscow, on the whole, was glad to see
the last of him--particularly the Chief of Police.
There began the most brilliant epoch of his life. By steps which it is
needless to trace, he fought and wormed his way into the favour of the
Court.


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