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Felix Yussupov



Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov () (March 23, 1887, Saint Petersburg, Russia – September 27, 1967, Paris, France), (variously transliterated from Russian as Yussupov, Yossopov, Iusupov, Youssoupov, Youssoupoff, or as Feliks, Graf Sumarrokow-Elston (граф Сумароков-Эльстон)), was a Russian nobleman best known for participating in the murder of Grigori Rasputin, the mystic peasant faith healer whom Yusupov and other Russian nobles believed held undue sway over Tsar Nicholas II and especially over the Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.



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