Prince Felix Yusupov. Memoirs

Prince Felix Feliksovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston the Younger (1887-1967) is a noble aristocrat, whose family possessed a tremendous state. He studied in the Page Corps and in Oxford, was a bisexual and married a niece of Nicholas II. Everyone knows one thing about him - he killed Rasputin. After the Bolshevik revolution, the prince happily escaped death and spent almost half a century in exile.
For the first time, the full text of the "memoirs" comes out in Russian, and even in such a marvelous translation that I can’t even believe that the prince wrote in French. The "memoirs" are completely devoid of author’s vanity: Prince Yusupov tells about himself and others with the simplicity and grandeur of a real aristocrat, who should neither report nor make excuses. There is nothing ... He has a tenacious memory and a living mind, a light syllable and a sharp look, quirks and oddities, depth and lightweight, humor and charm, brilliance and poverty. And behind a self -portrait without concessions and complexes, history visible and is Russia - magnificent and vicious, crazy and worthy, paradoxical and genuine