Memoirs

Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston Jr. (1887-1967) - a noble aristocrat, whose family owned an immense fortune. He studied at the Pages Corps and 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 being published in Russian, in such a wonderful translation that it is hard to believe the prince wrote in French. "Memoirs" are completely devoid of authorial vanity: Prince Yusupov tells of himself and others with the simplicity and grandeur of a true aristocrat, who has nothing to account for or justify. In anything... 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 indulgence or complexes, history looms, as does Russia.