Man Who Killed Rasputin

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Greg King. The Man Who Killed Rasputin: Prince Youssoupov and the Murder That Helped Bring Down the Russian Empire. Felix Youssoupov (aka Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov) was rich, second in wealth only to the Romanovs. In 1916. his family owned four palaces in St. Petersburg, three in Moscow, over fourty-seven palaces throughout the Russian Empire, and over 30 estates throughout Russia, plus a host of coal mines, flour mills, and oil fields.

So, who better then to scheme to murder Rasputin by luring him to his palace with the participation of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich (he first cousin of Nicholas II) than Yousoupoff himself? Two years later, he and his wife barely made in out of Russia alive, and began a life living off of the jewels they were able to take with them. In the 1930s, they won a slander case againtst MGM Studios relating to the film Rasputin and the Empress, and their fortunes improved. 

Greg King draws on documents from the St. Petersburg police files while chronicling this stranger than fiction story. Greg King chronicles this stranger than fiction account while filling it with details of pre-revolutionary Russian life. Included are sixteen pages of many previously unseen photographs. A compelling account and a page-turner.

NY: Birch Lane Press, 1996. First edition, first printing. 306 pages. Index and photos. Like new hardcover with dustjacket in a protective clear Mylar jacket cover. 1 copy only.