Yusupov Felix Feliksovich Biography

The young man caused conflicting emotions among others. Many revered him almost as the Messiah, while others said that he was a shame of the family. But it can be said for sure that his life was more interesting than any movie. He lived a long and very exciting life, he was called a brave man and a villain, a burner of life and a story, a dreamer and a sewing, but very charming, a thoroughbred aristocrat Felix Yusupov left many secrets and unsolved mysteries associated with his life to this day.

At the age of 17, he could be found in a female outfit singing in a cafe, at the age of 29 he took part in the murder of Rasputin, at the summer he was offered to ascend the Russian throne, and at the age of 45, he dried an impressive amount of money from the Hollywood company MGM. The famous couple expected the girl, but the boy was born. Felix was baptized on April 11 of the same year in the Church of the Holy Twelve Apostles.

The child was born very weak, and the doctors said that he was unlikely to survive. Zinaida Nikolaevna Baloi Balo, her desire to have a daughter, with the birth of her son did not go away. As a child, she loved to dress up little Felix in dresses. When the child grew up a little, she gave lessons how to properly apply makeup and choose jewelry. This kind of children's entertainment of the mother subsequently laid out a certain imprint on the whole life of Felix Yusupov.

Felix Yusupov in childhood in his youth, wearing women's clothing was the main entertainment for the young Yusupov. The elder brother Nikolai also often supported Felix's enthusiasm for changing clothes. Nicholas with Felix, dressed in a female outfit, could appear in the opera or at the reception, will go to an entertainment event or meeting with friends. It should be noted that the young Yusupovs loved to buy, and did it on a large scale.

Yusupov’s contemporaries, because of his addiction to wearing female things, often condemned his behavior, and accused him of homosexuality. The young count did not show anyone to study. He led his teachers out of himself, his distraction and unwillingness to learn at least something. By order of his father, he tried to enter the training of military affairs, but successfully failed exams, starting a religious dispute with the commission.

But still later, he had to give in to his father’s requirements, and he was taken without exams in a private gymnasium. At its end, the young pine is sent to study at Oxford University. There, Felix continued his cheerful carefree life. He made a close friendship with Oswald Reiner, who was probably later also among the killers of Rasputin. Regarding this friend Yusupov, there were assumptions that he was an agent of Mi, it can be argued that Yusupov was a patriot of Russia, but only in the monarchical version.

In his youth, Felix and his older brother were fans of the theater, and performed on the stage themselves.

Six times, Yusupov, the younger, appeared before the audience in women's outfits, but for the seventh time a terrible scandal erupted, which of the eminent spectators examined the Yusupov family jewelry on the young actress. Felix had an amazing acting talent, he was called a master of reincarnation. He could play a charming seducer and a realistic male character, a commoner and power cardinal Richelieu.

In the year, the elder brother Nikolai suddenly dies on a duel. And the summer Felix becomes the only heir to a huge state and the successor of the Yusupov clan. Nikolai kills Count Arvid Manteifel on a duel. The fact is that Nikolai was his wife's lover. Nikolai Yusupov twice shot the air at the duel, and the count took advantage of his right. In fact, it was a murder.

Felix Yusupov in his youth, his brother’s death was temporarily cooled by the fervor of the younger Yusupov, he began to think about the fleetingness of life. But this is only for a short time. Later, the young man again begins to lead the familiar lifestyle for him. He comes closer to Dmitry Pavlovich Romanov, they become almost inseparable friends, rumors about their delicate attachment went in society.

However, they could not put forward any confirming facts against them, they simply were not there. The murder of Rasputin in the year Felix meets Grigory Rasputin, about whom various rumors went, either he was the “chosen one of God” and “holy elder”, or he is a rogue and charlatan. About Rasputin’s love for the female floor, legends were composed. Perhaps Rasputin had the gift of hypnosis.

Acquaintance on Felix made a painful impression. He was sure that a dangerous ambitious intrigue was hiding under the mask of God's man. In the year, according to Felix Yusupov, the influence of Rasputin on the royal family passed all the borders. He influenced the decisions of Nicholas II with regard to the First World War, knocked out posts for his protege, and had an absolute influence on the empress.

Alexandra Fedorovna was infinitely grateful to Rasputin for the treatment of Tsarevich Alexei, who was sick with hemophilia. By the way, during the war, Felix Yusupov organized hospitals for the wounded with his own money, and personally worked in one of them.Felix Yusupov and Rasputin in his memoirs Yusupov will write that Rasputin was not shy that he was resorting to blackmail with the royal couple.

He threatened that he wouldn’t die his Alesya immediately. Felix could not influence Rasputin in any way, and he often began to meet him, trying to get closer. It was in him that he saw the evil that this man of Russia brought. In his memoirs, Felix Yusupov writes: “After all my meetings with Rasputin, everything I saw and heard by me, I finally became convinced that all the evil and the main reason for all the misfortunes of Russia are hidden: there will be no Rasputin, there will be no Satanic force, in which the sovereign and empress fell.” His opinion was supported by a lot, but they could not resist Rasputin, then the idea came to Yusupov that Rasputin should be stopped at all costs, if threats to leave Petersburg, then only death.

On the last day of the year, Felix Yusupov will invite the “elder”, who, by the way, was only more than 40 years to his house. Grigory Rasputin has long wanted to meet his young wife. Felix promised him to show his basement, in which his partying with friends usually passed. The conspiracy, whose purpose was the murder of Rasputin, was attended by his faithful friend Dmitry Pavlovich Romanov, State Duma deputy Vladimir Purishkevich, Dr.

Stanislav Lazovert, and Lieutenant Sergey Sukhotin. There is also an assumption that there was another participant in the conspiracy, his Oxford comrade. At the appointed time, Rasputin arrived at the Yusupov’s house, he absolutely did not feel the threat of Felix, although he knew that his mother Zinaida Nikolaevna “could not bear him”. Having gone to the basement, Rasputin ate a poisoned cake and drank poisoned wine.

But he did not die, but only flushed. After that, Felix shot him in his chest, but the "old man" only staggered and rushed to the exit. In the courtyard, the rest of the conspirators waited for him and fired at him four more times, and then threw the corpse into the Neva. The initiator of this conspiracy was recognized by Felix Yusupov, the royal family was indignant, but there was no open court.

They were interrogated by investigators, and by the way, all participants in the conspiracy gave different evidence, many facts even contradicted each other. The punishment that followed the murder was mildly weak. The participation of Prince Dmitry Pavlovich, a member of the royal family, significantly complicated the matter. The court dragged on, at that time Purishkevich will go to the front, Dmitry Pavlovich to Persia, and Felix Yusupov under house arrest.

They may be familiar.