Prince felix yusupov biography of william shakespeare pdf

Zinaida Yusupova , his mother, was the last of the Yusupov line , of Tatar origin, and very wealthy. For the Yusupov name not to die out, his father , Saint Petersburg — , Rome, Italy was granted the title and the surname of his wife, Princess Zinaida Yusupova, on 11 June , a year after their marriage, but effective after the death of his father-in-law in The Yusupov family, one of the richest families in Imperial Russia, had acquired their wealth generations earlier.

Felix led a flamboyant life. As a young man, he cross-dressed , which he later recalled to get into cabarets, which denied entrance to those in school uniforms. His brother 's mistress Polya had helped him out by giving him her clothes which were a perfect fit.

William Shakespeare was born in April in a house in Stratford-upon-Avon.

He had ceased doing that one night when he impersonated a singer at a club when a member of the audience spotted the family jewelry. Yusupov made a quick exit by smashing a champagne bottle over the nightclub's power box to cause a temporary blackout and ran off into the winter's night. He owned three horses, a macaw , and a bulldog called Punch.

He smoked hashish , [ 7 ] danced the tango, and became friendly with Luigi Franchetti, a piano player, and Jacques de Beistegui, who both moved in. He rented an apartment in Curzon Street , Mayfair , and met several times with the ballerina Anna Pavlova , who lived in Hampstead.

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The engagement took place in the fall of in the Yusupov Palace in Koreiz. Petersburg on 22 February The bride wore a veil that had belonged to Marie Antoinette. The Kaiser refused to permit the Yusupov family to leave but offered them a choice of three country estates to live in for the duration of the war. Felix's father appealed to the Spanish ambassador in Germany and won permission for them to return to Russia via neutral Denmark to the Grand Duchy of Finland and from there to Saint Petersburg.