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...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...
Prince Felix Yusupov and his wife Princess Irene, second cousin of Tsar Nicholas II and daughter of the Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch, steamed from Manhattan on the good ship Aquitania...
That they were in need of chaperonage seems apparent from their immediate affiliation in this country with Count Ilyia Tolstoy, Prince Felix Yusupov and other recognized Tsarists. They also ignored their obligation to the Russian Red Cross...
...Peter G. Gerry, wife of the Senator from Rhode Island: "From Prince Felix Yusupov of Russia, I purchased a necklace consisting of 42 black pearls for a price which approximated $400,000. Said The New York Times: 'But who could have failed to remember that several things can be done with $400,000 that would produce higher pleasure, even from the selfish point of view; than can the gratification of the desire so common among savages and barbarians, and the possessors of child minds in general, for the hanging in convenient places about the body and clothing of shiny...