 He seems to have escaped to Peter Badmayev in St Petersburg.In Summer 1914, after an attack on Rasputin by Khioniya Kozmishna Guseva, he fled all the way around the Gulf of Bothnia to Christiania (present-day Oslo), Norway with the help of Grand Duke Nicholas and Maxim Gorki.Rasputin believed Iliodor and Vladimir Dzhunkovsky had organized the attack.