Beasts in Cassocks: The Crimes of the Heads of the Russian Greek Catholic Orthodox Church in America

by John Feoktist Dudikoff

 

BEASTS IN CASSOCKS

THE CRIMES OF
THE HEADS OF THE RUSSIAN
GREEK-CATHOLIC-ORTHODOX
CHURCH IN AMERICA

 

 

Narrated, from Personal Experiences,

BY PRIEST
FATHER JOHN F. DUDIKOFF

 

Newark, N. J.
1924

 

Copyright 1924

By

Rev. John F. Dudikoff

 

NURKIN PRESS
Newark, N. J.

CONTENTS

⁠CHAPTER		PAGE
Principal Persons		5
I.	My Confession	8
II.	I Come To America	15
III.	I Undergo a "Rehearsal"	17
IV.	Orgies Masked As "Rehearsals"	19
V.	Platon Takes Money For Sage-Keeping	22
VI.	I Meet the "Archangel"	24
VII.	I Am Reprimanded and Sworn In	25
VIII.	The Holy Fathers Celebrate	26
IX.	The Bishop Amuses Himself	29
X.	Ivan Gorbach, the "Specialist"	35
XI.	At the Inquest	37
XII.	The Clergymen Administer "Justice"	38
XIII.	A Daylight Robbery	40
XIV.	More "Inquests"	43
XV.	I Pay for the Fathers' Dinner	46
XVI.	Russian Spies in America	48
XVII.	I Am Attacked, Robbed and Imprisoned	51
XVIII.	I Return to Russia	53
XIX.	Platon Repays Me With "Interest"	56
XX.	I Meet the Czar	58
XXI.	Platon Causes Husband's Death and Seduces Widow	61
XXII.	Platon Instigates the Beiliss Blood Accusation	64
XXIII.	His Eminence Leads Me a Chase	65
XXIV.	Platon Incites Pogroms	68
XXV.	The Hetman's Gendarmes Assassinate My Two Children	74
XXVI.	I Land at the "Che-Ka" (Extraordinary Commission)	77
XXVII.	I Am Sentenced to Death	79
XXVIII.	The Horrors and Atrocities of the Soviet Inquisition	81
XXIX.	Justice Triumphs	84
XXX.	I Trace Platon to New York	84
XXXI.	The "People’s Priest"—An Arch-Provocateur	85
XXXII.	Platon Obtains My "Confession" By Fraud	87
XXXIII.	The "To-morrow" That Never Comes	88
XXXIV.	I Am Fed on Promises	89
XXXV.	I Bring Suit	92
XXXVI.	"You Have Walked Into Our Trap"	94
XXXVII.	The Two "Pillars" Testify	98
XXXVIII.	I Am Accused of Bolshevism	104
XXXIX.	Affidavit of Maria M. Bogdanova-Dudikoff	108
Hearing of Lukuch vs. Repelo		130
A Brief Sketch of My Court Trials and Further Sufferings		131