Hi, this is William Ramsey.

Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates.

On today's show, I'm going to read from a book, the full title of the book.

If you're watching this on one of my channels, you'll see a guy by the name of Felix Yusupov.

In the book he wrote is called Rasputin, his malignant influence and his assassination.

And you'll see a different spelling of his name.

It's Prince Y-O-U-S-O-U-F-F.

That was the fashion at the time now. It's Y-U-O-U-S-O-U-P-O-F-F. That was the fashion at the time now.

It's Y-U-S-U-P-O-V, and he was really a first person.

This is the person who took credit for killing Rasputin, Gregory Rasputin.

A lot of stuff that happened in Russia before the breakdown, the revolution, the October

Revolution in 1917.

But his whole class was pretty much annihilated.

They had to either, there was the revolutionary war in Russia between what's called the whites

and the reds.

And his whole class was either murdered or had to leave the country.

He had to leave Russia.

He was really on par with Romanov's.

Like they were, I don't think the Yusufa family was a royal family, but they were very, very wealthy.

He was educated.

A story about this guy in itself is actually worth an episode,

but that's for another time. I really just want to get through this book. And if you've listened to

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