Frank didn’t in any way contest the greatness of Lev Nicolaevich, but his hopes for the immediate future of Russia lay with the Premier, Piotr Stolypin. Something about Stolypin’s neatness, quietness and correctness, his ability to keep his head, his refusal, when Rasputin tried to hypnotize him, to be affected in the slightest degree, his decision to accept the premiership even though his enemies had tried to dissuade him from politics by blowing him up in his own house and crippling his young daughter, who had lost both her feet—something about all this suggested that Stolypin might, in
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