30 Facts About Felix Yusupov

Felix Yusupov was born in the Moika Palace in Saint Petersburg, the capital of the Russian Empire.

Felix Yusupov's father was Count Felix Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston, the son of Count Felix Nikolaievich Sumarokov-Elston.

Felix Yusupov's father served between 1886 and 1904 as an adjutant to Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich the General-Governor of Moscow.

Felix Yusupov had ceased doing that one night when he impersonated a singer at a club when a member of the audience spotted the family jewelry.

Felix Yusupov made a quick exit by smashing a champagne bottle over the nightclub's power box to cause a temporary blackout and ran off into the winter's night.

Felix Yusupov was living on 14 King Edward Street, had a Russian cook, a French driver, an English valet, and a housekeeper, and spent much of his time partying.

Felix Yusupov owned three horses, a macaw, and a bulldog called Punch.

Felix Yusupov smoked hashish, danced the tango, and became friendly with Luigi Franchetti, a piano player, and Jacques de Beistegui, who both moved in.

At some time, Felix Yusupov became acquainted with Albert Stopford and Oswald Rayner, a classmate.

Felix Yusupov married Princess Irina of Russia, the tsar's only biological niece, in the Anichkov Palace in St Petersburg on 22 February 1914.

Felix Yusupov's father appealed to the Spanish ambassador in Germany and won permission for them to return to Russia via neutral Denmark to the Grand Duchy of Finland and from there to Saint Petersburg.

Felix Yusupov was largely raised by her paternal grandparents until she was nine.

Felix Yusupov was able to avoid entering military service himself by taking advantage of a law exempting only sons from serving.

Felix Yusupov asked Rasputin to cure a slight malady from which he suffered.

In February 1916 Felix Yusupov began studies at the elite Page Corps military academy and tried joining an Imperial Russian Army regiment in August.

The heavy losses by the Russian military gave rise to a lot of rumors that Felix Yusupov's family was involved in misprision of treason, according to Alexander Spiridovich:.

Early November 1916, Felix Yusupov approached the lawyer Vasily Maklakov for advice.

Still waiting for Rasputin to collapse, Felix Yusupov became anxious that Rasputin might live until the morning, leaving the conspirators no time to conceal his body.

Prince Felix Yusupov attempted to explain the blood with a story that one of his favorite dogs was shot accidentally by Grand Duke Dmitri.

Felix Yusupov wanted both shot immediately, but she was persuaded to back off from the idea.

Felix Yusupov published several accounts of the night and the events surrounding the murder.

Fuhrmann thinks that Felix Yusupov was the man who hatched the plot and who carried it out.

Felix Yusupov became renowned in the Russian emigre community for his financial generosity.

The alleged libel was not that the character based on Felix Yusupov had committed murder but that the character based on Irina, called "Princess Natasha" in the film, was portrayed as having been seduced by the lecherous Rasputin.

In 1965, Felix Yusupov sued CBS in a New York court for televising a play based upon the Rasputin assassination.

In 1928, after Felix Yusupov published his memoir detailing the killing of Rasputin, Rasputin's daughter, Maria, sued Felix Yusupov and Dmitri in a Paris court for damages of $800,000.

Felix Yusupov condemned both men as murderers and said any decent person would be disgusted by the ferocity of Rasputin's killing.

Irina and Felix Yusupov were married for more than 50 years.

When Felix Yusupov died in 1967, Irina was stricken by grief and she died three years later, on 26 February 1970.

Felix Yusupov was buried in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois Russian Cemetery, in the southern suburbs of Paris.