Word: yusupov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tageblalt of Berlin had it that the War Lord was living at Archangelskoye, a suburb of Moscow, in the palace of Prince Yusupov. This newspaper claimed that he was sick abed with consumption and stomach trouble, whereas he has usually been reported as suffering from some bronchial affliction. The same paper declared that the Bolshevik Triumvirate-Stalin, Kamenev, Zinoviev, all enemies of the War Lord-was conducting a campaign of hate against him by means of flaming illuminated signs...
Divorce Rumored. Mrs. Mathilda Townsend Gerry, from her husband, Peter Goelet Gerry, U. S. Senator from Rhode Island; in Paris. Mrs. Gerry, prominent hostess in Washington, D. C., last January bought a string of dark pearls from Felix Yusupov, Russian princeling, allegedly valued...
...from history, nameless, irreproachable, erect. Much have they seen since one Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, by painting them, preserved their finery from the fate that overtook its fashion. Lately, they have been themselves much watched, talked of?that serene lady, that impeccable gentleman:?because a destitute nobleman, Felix Yusupov, once prince in Russia, sold them to a U. S. financier and art collector, Joseph E. Widener, of Philadelphia, so cheaply that he felt himself cheated (TIME, Nov. 3). Last week in Philadelphia, they were spoken of again?and for another reason. Their owner announced that since his father, Peter...
...Descent from the Crass (also reported to have cost $500,000). Two portraits in his collection (A Gentleman With High Hat and Gloves in Right Hand; and A Lady with Ostrich Feather Fan in Right Hand) are the subject of the suit instituted in the Supreme Court by Prince Yusupov, a participant in the arduous murder of Monk Rasputin. Yusupov sold the pictures to Mr. Widener in 1921, but maintains that a clause in the contract gave him the privilege of repurchase at the original price plus 8% interest, provided he used his own money and wanted the pictures...
...Paris, Mlle. Marie Gregoriovna Rasputin, daughter of the notorious monk who was killed by Prince Felix Yusupov (TIME, Dec. 3), said she was about to take up professional dancing, was planning to sell her father's memoirs...