Prince Felix Yusupov. Memoirs

Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston Jr. - a noble aristocrat whose family owned an enormous fortune. He studied at the Page Corps and at Oxford, was bisexual and married to the niece of Nicholas II. One thing is known about him by all - he killed Rasputin. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the prince happily escaped death and spent almost half a century in exile.
The full text of "Memoirs" is being published for the first time in Russian, and in such a wonderful translation that it is hard to believe the prince wrote it in French. The "Memoirs" are completely devoid of authorial vanity: Prince Yusupov tells about himself and others with the simplicity and grandeur of a true aristocrat, who neither needs to report nor justify himself. In nothing... He has a keen memory and a lively mind, a light style and a sharp gaze, quirks and oddities, depth and lightness, humor and charm, brilliance and poverty. And behind the self-portrait without indulgences and complexes, history peeks through and Russia appears - lush and corrupt, insane and worthy, paradoxical and genuine.