Research Catalog

Title

The man who killed Rasputin : Prince Youssoupov and the murder that helped bring down the Russian Empire / Greg King.

Author

King, Greg, 1964-

Publication

Secaucus, NJ : Carol Pub. Group, c1995.

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Details

Description

xiii, 306 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

On December 16, 1917, Grigori Rasputin, a confidant of the empress, was invited to one of the St. Petersburg palaces of Prince Felix Youssoupov, the second wealthiest man in Russia after the tsar himself. Leading a group of conspirators, the prince considered it a patriotic act to eliminate the palace favorite who had gained control of the government. Years later, the events surrounding the murder continue to provoke speculation. In an effort to get at the truth, this meticulously researched work, based on new revelations from the St. Petersburg police files, covers the lives of both men, from their childhood to their ultimate collision. At the time of the murder Prince Youssoupov owned 47 palaces throughout the empire; just two years later, when he and his wife escaped the Revolution, they survived by selling the jewelry they were able to hide on their persons. The Youssoupovs became social lions as they traveled the world, and wherever he went, Prince Youssoupov was always pointed out as the man who killed Rasputin.--From publisher description.

Subject

• I︠U︡supov, F. F. kni︠a︡zʹ, 1887-1967
• Rasputin, Grigoriĭ Efimovich, 1869-1916 > Death and burial
• 1894-1917
• Russia > Court and courtiers > Biography
• Russia > History > Nicholas II, 1894-1917

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• History
• Biographies.

Note

• "A Birch Lane Press book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1559722959 (hc)

LCCN

^^^95019939^

OCLC

• 32549224
• SCSB-11441630

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library