The famous "Protocols of the Zion of the Wise" at the time made a lot of noise around the world. The scandalous collection of texts was called nothing more than proof of the worldwide Jewish conspiracy of the Masonic lodge, which consists in the destruction of the existing states and the proclamation of a new world order, where, of course, the Jews are the "ruling class". It all started in 1901, when the protocols of secret meetings of the Masonic lodge fell into the hands of the writer Sergei Nilus. The documents were written in French and resembled the congresses of an organization called the General Union of Israelites.
Nilus was going to make the documents public, but he was ahead of him, and in 1903 the Protocols of the Zion of the Sages were first published. After that, several more journalists published this information; in total, from 1905 to 1907, 6 publications of the Protocols were published. Nilus released his version of the translation as an addition to his book “The Great in the Small, or the Antichrist as a Close Political Opportunity”, which caused a sensation in Russian society. As a result, after the first revolution, people were seriously ready to blame the world Zionist conspiracy for all troubles.
The tsar got acquainted with the sensational "Protocols" in 1906 and was inclined to believe this information. However, Stolypin, who served as Minister of the Interior, organized an investigation into the origin of the documents, during which it turned out that the time for writing the Protocols was 1897-1898, and Parisian anti-Semites created them. The Minister immediately went to the Tsar with a report and a request to ban in Russia the “Protocols of the Zion of the Wise Men,” the text of which is completely falsified. The king listened to the report and agreed with the minister, thus the book was banned.
Regarding the authorship and authenticity of the book, the opinions of experts still differ. Some experts believe that the book was falsified by members of the Russian secret police. According to them, the police followed in the footsteps of the creators of the famous pamphlet against Napoleon, published in France. Thus, the Protocols of the Zion of the Wise were fabricated at the Paris National Library. However, there are adherents of the opposite point of view who believe that the document is absolutely real, as well as other texts of similar subjects: “Messages of the World Council of Masons”, “Kaiser’s Dream”, “Message of the Universal Union of Israelites”, etc. The Russian emigrants managed to take the surviving copies of the book of Nilus abroad, and thus Europe and America also learned what the “Protocols of the Zion of the Sages” mean. The book was soon translated into 80 languages ​​and spread throughout the world.
Nilus’s books began to be published again in Russia only in the 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR, and most recently, in 2006, human rights defenders, together with the Public Chamber, made amendments to the legislation, including the creation of a list of extremist literature banned from distribution in Russia. This list also includes the Protocols of the Zion of the Wise, along with the famous work of Mine Kampf.