Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man who Killed Rasputin
- ISBN-10
- 1885586582
- ISBN-13
- 9781885586582
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 314
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Helen Marx Books
- Author
- Feliks Feliksovich I︠U︡supov
Description
Rasputin's is one of the most famous deaths in history. Now, his assassin's thrilling memoir is finally back in print. Born to great riches in the days before the Russian Revolution, and married to the niece of Czar Nicholas II, Prince Felix Youssoupoff observed at close range the rampant corruption and intrigues of the imperial court, which culminated in the rise to power of the sinister monk Rasputin. In 1916, Prince Felix and several aristocratic cohorts killed Rasputin, which more than any other single event brought about the cataclysmic upheaval of Tsarist Russia.
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