|
Lost Splendor
|
|
||| TERMS & CONDITIONS
||| PRINT AN ORDER FORM
||| VISIT OUR MAIN BOOKSHOP |||
WELCOME TO ROYAL RUSSIA ||| ||| View the PREVIOUS Book ||| View the NEXT Book ||| |
|
Born to riches, master of vast feudal estates and many palaces, Prince Felix Youssoupoff led the life of a grand lord in the days before the Russian Revolution. Married to a niece of Czar Nicholas II, he could observe at close range the rampant corruption and intrigues of the imperial court, which culminated in the rise to power of the sinister monk Rasputin. Finally, impelled by patriotism and his love for the Romanov dynasty, which he felt was in danger of destroying iteself and Russia, he killed Rasputin in 1916 with the help of the Grand Duke Dimitri and others. More than any other single event, the assassination of Rasputin helped to bring about the cataclysmic upheaval that ended in the advent of the Soviet regime. In 1919, the Youssoupoffs left Russia. They sold two Rembrandt paintings, as well as Princess Irina's jewelry. Contesting their portrayal in an MGM film and a CBS television drama, both dealing with Rasputin, they subsequently won large libel settlements in 1934 and 1965. Prince Youssoupoff, speaking about his wife to a magazine reporter, said, "Isn't she beautiful? We live as happily together as we did the first day . . . This is love, true love--something I've felt for no one but her." These splendid memoirs are one of the finest accounts of what life was like in St. Petersburg before the revolution. Prince Felix Youssoupoff had a photographic memory and describes in great detail his palaces and the sumptuous lives of the Russian aristocracy and the Romanovs in great detail.
|
PUBLISHED:2006 BINDING: Soft Cover Edition SIZE: 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" NO. PAGES: 314 ILLUSTRATIONS: 43 Black and White Photos LANGUAGE: English
REGULAR PRICE: $28.00 CAD **NOTE: Heavy shipping charges may apply to SOME countries on this book. Please contact us for details.**
|
