Word: youssoupov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daughter of the "Black Monk" Gregory Novihh-called "Rasputin" (which means the "Debauchee"), and famed as the evil nemesis of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias. Pending in Paris is a damage suit for 25,000,000 francs brought by Mme. Soloviev against Prince Felix Youssoupov, the self-confessed killer of Monk Rasputin...
...suit for damages against Prince Felix Youssoupov and the Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich [both resident in Paris] is not primarily a struggle for money. It is an effort to clear my slandered father's name...
...midnight they came. Youssoupov was admitted by the servants' stairway. He embraced my father, crying: 'Ah, my dear friend,' and took him away...
Slayer's Boast. Prince Felix Youssoupov has written autobiographically that he offered Rasputin poisoned wine, after first pretending to take a sip himself. When the Debauchee's potent digestion resisted liquid poison, Rasputin was induced to eat several pastries containing cyanide of potassium. Expectantly the nobles waited for their victim to collapse, and blanched with fear as the Black Monk, who was believed to possess occult powers, became merely hilarious after absorbing enough poison to kill a healthy elephant...
...Prince Youssoupov boasts that he finally drew a revolver and put shot after shot into Rasputin. Even then the period before Death came was so appallingly long that the Grand Duke Dimitri is said to have rewound a phonograph 20 times in an effort to keep up the morale of all concerned. He later remarked with a shudder...