This is a short fictional story originally titled Tale of the Antichrist by the Russian author, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov. It was published by him in the Nedelya newspaper on February 27, 1900. It tells the tale of a smooth-talking antichrist quite accidentally uniting the remaining faithful Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants during the final persecution on earth. The twentieth century was the epoch of the last great wars and revolutions. The greatest of these wars had its distant cause in the movement of Pan Mongolism which originated in Japan as far back as the end of the nineteenth century. The imitative Japanese, who showed such wonderful speed and success in copying [...]