Youssoupoff rasputin biography

Lost Splendor - Prince Felix Youssoupoff
The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin

Born to great riches, master of vast feudal estates and many palaces, Felix Youssoupoff led the life of a grand lord in the days before the Russian Revolution.

Youssoupoff rasputin biography

Married to a niece of Czar Nicholas II, he could observe at close range the rampant corruption and intrigues of the imperial court, which culminated in the rise to power of the sinister monk Rasputin. Finally impelled by patriotism and his love for the Romanoff dynasty, which he felt was in danger of destroying itself and Russia, he killed Rasputin in 1916 with the help of the Grand Duke Dimitri and others.
 
More than any other single event, the assassination of Rasputin helped to bring about the cataclysmic upheaval that ended in the advent of the Soviet regime.

In 1919, the Youssoupoffs left Russia.

They sold two Rembrandt paintings (now in the National Gallery in Was