Beasts in Cassocks: The Crimes of the Heads of the Russian Greek Catholic Orthodox Church in America/Chapter 4

by John Feoktist Dudikoff

Archbishop Nemolovsky's Engagement Party

CHAPTER IV.

Orgies Masked As "Rehaersals"

During this time I had been to confession at which Father Slunin, who was recommended to me by Archbishop Platon himself, succeeded in drawing me out as to the actual amount of money I had. As for the "rehearsals", this is what they consisted of: Every evening, after business hours, the "Holy Fathers" would come together for an entirely different kind of "Business." There was no paper, no pen, and no ink on the tables, but a sumptuous repast and choice drinks and refreshments, instead. At these "sessions" there were also women, among them wives and daughters of the clergy, as well as "invited guests," but everyone of them young and beautiful.

It is true that during these "sessions" singing "rehearsals" took place—all kinds of songs were sung, among them some very obscene ones both in English and in Russian. Very often these "conferences" kept the conferees "busy" until the wee hours of the morning. During these religious "revivals" the sex problem was readily

Archbishop Platon Roshdestwensky, Following
the Steps of Archbishop Nemolevsky

solved. The participants were all completely naked—after the fashion common in the Garden of Eden. They were sitting in one of two ways: either a "Father" had a nude Eve on his naked lap, or a "Father" sat on the knees of one of the women, in a posture which made it convenient for him to suck her breasts. On the table, instead

The Beginnings of the Holy Fathers' Feasts

The Holy Fathers Are Taking Their First Liberties

of the Law Code or Church Regulations, lay an album in a de luxe binding, with pictures of a pornographic nature which, apparently for the sake of exciting carnal passion, were perused by the men and women together. This de luxe album was kept in an equally de luxe case and I saw it many a time in the "saintly" Prelate's apartment. More than once I had to bring it to him locked in the case.

It was during this time that Vsevolod Fedorovitch Shcheglovitov, who was a son of Princess Alexandra Fedorovna Obolensky, by her first husband, and who pretended also to be Prince Obolensky, was a frequent visitor at Platon’s home. This yuong man very often went with the Archbishop to disorderly resorts or took prostitutes to the Waldorf Astoria or to Little Hungary, on East Houston Street. I personally succeeded in tracing them to these places. Owing to his recklessness, this wealthy young man went into bankruptcy and the major part of his money found its way into the pockets of the "saintly" Prelate Platon. Mr. Obolensky (Shcheglovitov) himself, whom I had known in Russia, complained to me about the matter.

 

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