Memories. Yusupov F.F.

Prince Felix Feliksovich Yusupov is an aristocrat, the last of the richest family of the Yusupovs, a beautiful, elegant, educated man and master of shocking, a member of the murder of Rasputin, tells the story of a kind and his own life. With tenderness and love, he writes about his mother, the famous beauty to Princess Zinaida, with respect, but with restraint about his father - the guards officer, about friendship with his brother and his early death. An exciting and witty author describes the rapidly spent youth, the life of the family in Arkhangelsk and in the capital's mansions, preparation for the holidays, the decoration of the estates, the luxury that surrounded him from birth. And then the revolution, the loss of the entire property, escape abroad and life in exile with all its deprivation and longing for the homeland.

The first publication in Russian.