Memoirs

Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Somorokov-Elston junior (1887-1967) - a noble aristocrat, whose family owned an enormous fortune. He studied at the Page Corps and at Oxford, was bisexual, and married the niece of Nicholas II. One thing everyone knows about him - he killed Rasputin. After the Bolshevik revolution, the prince happily escaped death and spent almost half a century in exile. For the first time, the complete text of "Memoirs" is published in Russian, in such a wonderful translation that it’s hard to believe the prince wrote in French. "Memoirs" is entirely devoid of authorial vanity: Prince Yusupov tells about himself and others with the simplicity and grandeur of a true aristocrat, who does not need to account for himself or justify anything. Not at all... He has a sharp memory and a lively mind, a light style and a keen eye, quirks and oddities, depth and levity, humor and charm, brilliance and poverty. And behind the self-portrait without concessions and complexes, history looms and Russia emerges.