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Felix Yusupov

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Prince Felix Yusupov was one of the richest men in Russia after his older brother, Nikolai Felixovich, Count Sumarokov-Elston had an affair with a married woman and was killed in a duel by the jealous husband. From 1909 to 1913, Felix studied fine arts at Oxford, where he was a member of the Bullingdon Club, and established the Oxford University Russian Society. Yusupov was living on 14 King Edward Street, had a Russian cook, a French driver, an English valet, a housekeeper, and he spent much time partying. He owned three horses, a macaw and a bulldog called Punch. He also murdered Rasputin…

Books by Felix Yusupov

Lost Splendour and the Death of Rasputin

Yusupov describes a vanished world of almost unimaginable splendour & exoticism in pre-revolutionary Russia, as well as relating in gripping detail his murder of Rasputin.

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