Memoirs

17 hrs. 58 min.

Language Russian

Author Felix Yusupov

Narrator Alexander Mamonov

Description

Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston Jr. (1887–1967) was a noble aristocrat whose family owned an enormous fortune. He studied at the Page Corps and at Oxford, was bisexual, and married the niece of Nicholas II. One thing everyone knows about him—he killed Rasputin. After the Bolshevik revolution, the prince happily avoided death and spent almost half a century in exile. For the first time, the full text of the “Memoirs” is published in Russian—and in such a wonderful translation that it’s hard to believe the prince wrote them in French. The “Memoirs” are completely free of authorial vanity: Prince Yusupov talks about himself and others with the simplicity and grandeur of a true aristocrat who has no need to report or justify anything. No… He has a sharp memory and a lively mind, an easy style and a piercing gaze, quirks and oddities, depth and lightness, humor and charm, brilliance and poverty. And behind this unvarnished self-portrait without concessions or complexes, you can see the story—and it is Russia: lush and vicious, mad and worthy, paradoxical and real… In A4 PDF format, the publisher’s layout has been preserved.