Yusupov Family, Princes

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YUSUPOV FAMILY, a family of princes of Nogay origin, who lived in Russia from the 16th century. Several family members were closely associated with St. Petersburg. Prince Nikolay Borisovich Yusupov (1750-1831) was a statesman and diplomat, collector and patron of the arts, and an Actual Privy Counsellor (1796). He was Director of the Petersburg Imperial Theatre 1791-99, and at the same time the Director of the Glass Factory, the State Porcelain Factory, and the State Trellis Manufactory in 1792-96; he was also President of the Manufactory Collegium, Director of the Imperial Hermitage, Director of Court Theatre and Music (1796-1800), Minister of Lands, an Honorary Member of Academy of Arts (1800-01), and a member of the State Assembly (from 1823). He owned a palace in St. Petersburg (115 Fontanka River Embankment) until 1810. His wife, the Princess Tatyana Vasilievna Yusupova (Nee Engelhard, G.A. Potemkin's niece) (1767-1841, St. Petersburg) was the organiser of a salon visited by G.R. Derzhavin, V.A. Zhukovsky, I.A. Krylov, and Alexander Pushkin, and had a collection of precious stones. Their son, Prince Boris Nikolaevich Yusupov (1794-1849), was a public figure, an Actual Privy Counsellor, Staff Master (1848), Marshal of the Nobility of the St. Petersburg Province (1840-42), and an Honorary Tutor of the St. Petersburg Tutors' Council (1840-49). He transported his father's art collection from Archangelskoe Village located near Moscow to St. Petersburg. His wife, Princess Zinaida Ivanovna Yusupova (nee Naryshkina, Countess de Chaveau and Marquise de Serre) (1810-1893), having left the Palace at Moika River Embankment to her son (see the Yusupov Palace), settled down in the residence at 42 Liteiny Avenue (see Yusupova Mansion). Their grandson, Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov (1887-1967), Count Sumarokov-Elston, married the Grand Princess Irina Alexandrovna (daughter of the Grand Prince Alexander Mikhailovich), the organiser and a participant of G.E. Rasputin's murder (1916). He lived in exile from 1919, and wrote Reminiscences (Moscow, 2000). Over a range of years, the Yusupovs owned buildings at 26 and 54 Angliiskaya Embankment (presented to the Yusupovs by the Empress Catherine II), 84 and 86 Nevsky Prospect, the apartment house at 85 Fontanka River Embankment, and a summer residence at Tsarskoe Selo (30 Pavlovskoe Freeway; 1850s, architect I.A. Marinetti).

References: Юсупов Н. Б. О роде князей Юсуповых. СПб., 1866. Ч. 1; Соловьева Т. А. Особняки Юсуповых в Петербурге. СПб., 1995; Юсуповский дворец: История рода, усадьбы и коллекции: [Сб.]. СПб., 1999; Юсупов Ф. Ф. Мемуары. М., 2000.

M. O. Meltsin. Alexander Mikhailovich, Grand Prince
Catherine II, Empress
Derzhavin Gavriil Romanovich
Krylov Ivan Andreevich
Monighetti Ippolito Antonovich
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Rasputin Grigory Efimovich
the Yusupovs, Dukes
Yusupov Boris Nikolaevich, Duke
Yusupov Felix Felixovich, Duke
Yusupov Nikolay Borisovich, Duke
Yusupova Irina Alexandrovna, Duchess
Yusupova Tatyana Vasilievna, Duchess
Yusupova Zinaida Ivanovna, Duchess
Zhukovsky Vasily Andreevich
Angliiskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 54
Angliiskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 26
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 115
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 85
Liteiny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 42
Moika River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 86
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 84
Pavlovskoe Freeway/Pushkin, town, house 30
Соловьева Т. А. Особняки Юсуповых в Петербурге. СПб., 1995
Юсупов Н. Б. О роде князей Юсуповых. СПб., 1866
Юсупов Ф. Ф. Мемуары. М., 2000 Imperial Theatres Board
Lomonosov Porcelain Factory
Hermitage
Hermitage
Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
State Assembly
Yusupov Palace (94 Moika River Embankment)
Mansion of Yusupova (42 Liteiny Avenue)