P.P.S. Grammar question: Why are the verbs perfective past in вишь – захотели и сделали? I assume that a future action is actually intended here, as in Поехали! ("Let's go!"). Or is there some different rule at work?
Rasputin saw the future at the moment with the same certitude as if it were the completed fact of the past. He just soared in his visions to the realms that are above and beyond time and space. ))