Prince Felix Yusupov. Memoirs

Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston Jr. - a noble aristocrat, whose family possessed a colossal fortune. He studied at the Page Corps and at Oxford, was bisexual, and married the niece of Nicholas II. One thing that everyone knows about him - he killed Rasputin. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the prince happily escaped death and spent almost half a century in exile.
The complete text of the "Memoirs" is published for the first time in Russian, and in such a wonderful translation that it is hard to believe the prince wrote them in French. The "Memoirs" are completely devoid of authorial vanity: Prince Yusupov speaks of himself and others with the simplicity and grandeur of a true aristocrat, who needs neither to account for himself nor to justify himself. Not in anything... He has a sharp memory and a lively mind, an easy style and a keen eye, quirks and eccentricities, depth and lightness, humor and charm, brilliance and poverty. And behind the self-portrait, without indulgence or complexes, history looms, and Russia appears - sumptuous and corrupt, insane and worthy, paradoxical and authentic.