Zinaida Yusupova
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Princess Zinaida Nikolayevna Yusupova was an Imperial Russian noblewoman, the only heiress of Russia's largest private fortune of her time. Famed for her beauty and the lavishness of her hospitality, she was a leading figure in pre-Revolutionary Russian society. In 1882, she married Count Felix Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston, who served briefly as General Governor of Moscow Military District (1914–1915). Zinaida is best known as the mother of Prince Felix Yusupov, the murderer of Rasputin. She escaped revolutionary Russia and spent her remaining years living in exile.
Portrait, c. 1882
Zenaida Yusupova by V. Bobrov, 1889.
The Yusupov family in 1902: Prince Felix, Prince Nicholas, Count Felix Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston and Princess Zinaida.
Princess Zenaida in her Moika Palace, 1902. This portrait is often considered Valentin Serov's masterpiece.
Felix Yusupov
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Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston was a Russian aristocrat from the Yusupov family who is best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin and for marrying Princess Irina Alexandrovna, a niece of Tsar Nicholas II.
Felix in 1914
The family estate near Moscow; Arkhangelskoye Palace
The hunting lodge at Sokolyne
The Yusupov family in 1901: Prince Felix, Prince Nicholas, Count Felix Felixovich Sumarkov-Elston and Princess Zinaida.