He's been described after this event, as a rasputin figure and potin's brain. He's better seen as a political entreponer who makes a living from pitching a certain kind of ideology. When we met him, he had no protection. We just wandered in and talked to him. And i guess there are a couple of features of his thinking that are relevant here. One is the sense of russia as an exceptional power with almost a holy mission to unite and gather all slaves.