"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

In 1914, two Bolsheviks, Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov and Grigori Pet-
rovsky, contacted the freemason Alexander Konovalov for economic aid.
The latter became a minister in the Provisional Government.
Radio Russia also spoke of Lenin's activities as a freemason on the 12th
of August 1991.
The First Freemasons in Russia
The first Masonic lodges in Russia were founded in the 1730s. Catherine
II banned all Masonic organisations in Russia April 8, 1782 since they had
secret political ties with leading circles abroad.
Freemasonry was legalised again in 1801 after Alexander I ascended the
throne. He became a freemason himself, despite the fact that his father had
been murdered by freemasons. The leading Decembrists (Pavel Pestel,
Sergei Trubetskoi and Sergei Volkonsky) belonged to the Masonic lodges,
The Reunited Friends (Les Amis Reunis), The Three Virtues, and The
Sphinx. The main secret societies of the Decembrists were The United
Slavs and The Three Virtues. Freemasonry was banned again in 1822,
when the government discovered that the Masonic lodges were actually
secret societies planning to transform the state system and infiltrate the
government. Tsar Alexander I had discovered that the freemasons were
controlled by an invisible hand. Naturally he forbade their activities in
Russia. This decision was to cost him his life. Nicholas I, who ruled from
1825 to 1855, became especially strict regarding freemasonry. All the
lodges were forced to operate underground.
The chief enemies of the Russian freemasons were national monarchism
and Christianity. This is why they worked with "enlightenment propa-
ganda". The Russian freemasons also tended towards cosmopolitanism.
Their watchword demanded: "Be prepared!", and the freemason had to
answer: "Always prepared!" Motifs from Judaism and Cabbalism domi-
nated the ideology and political symbolism of freemasonry. To an outsider
it might all have seemed confusing and unreal.
On the 31st of October 1893, Vladimir Ulyanov arrived in the capital,
St. Petersburg, where he began his subversive activity. He called himself a
professional revolutionary. In the autumn of 1895, after a period abroad,
Vladimir Ulyanov, together with other conspirators in St. Petersburg,
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