Prince Felix Yusupov - Interviewed About His Part in Raspitin's Murder

[ekocentric]

I hope that it isn't really true that the prince and his friends raped Rasputin before or during all of the murder attempts..

[nickwallacesmith]

hi ekocentric - never heard that one

[ekocentric]

@nickwallacesmith I tried to find it online for reference but could not find it. But considering Yusupov's many botched murder attempts. His and Rasputins weird lifestyle. Rasputin's daughter later suing Yusupov for $800,000 anything could be possible...what a weird situation. I hope to never hear of famous (or infamous) people like these again.

[nickwallacesmith]

hi ekocentric - and the empress's connection with an ordinary monk was hardly usual - all very weird! did you see my post on Rasputin's career as a dompteuse (circus animla trainer ) - there's footage of her at wok in my upload, cheers

[ekocentric]

@nickwallacesmith Thanx for that info. I am going to check it out in a couple minutes.

I had the great fortune to she his daughter interviewed on the Mike Douglas talk show in the late 1970's talking about a lady who tried to fraud the world by claiming to be the grand duchess Anastasia.

I truly wanted for one of the Romanovs to have escaped death in that attic and was disappointed when scientists did dna on her body and that of one or more of the Romanovs only to find that she wasn't.

[nickwallacesmith]

hi ekocentric - was this anna anderson? who married an american millionaire? i think it might be - i've seen a number of documentaries on her

[ekocentric]

@nickwallacesmith Yes her name was Anna. I don't know exactly why but I felt let down that she wasn't the Grand duchess because she had so much exposure for so long.

She conned members of the Czar or Czarina's family members so that she was able to con them out of money and get free things from other people.

In hindsight I can't help but wonder. She was not half as beautiful as the Romanov girls. Wasn't she a housekeeper as well?

Why did she keep the charade so long?

[nickwallacesmith]

hi ekocentric - anna anderson was found outside berlin in a mental institution and i think this is part of the answer - curiously she refused to speak russian - the russian at court was of a particular kind - she just couldn't do it - she would have if she could as itwould have proved her claim

[ekocentric]

@nickwallacesmith ..... And this is the woman who had everybody listening? If I knew half of what I have looked up today and what you have told me I would have turned the channel everytime that some t.v. station was trying to get viewers.

I still say that it is sad that she spent so much time maintaining such a lie. She could have spent that time working in a lighthouse or learning brain surgery by the numbers. Teaching flies how to shoot cannons. Anything else would have been more rewarding.

[ekocentric]

@ekocentric I have read many books on the Romanovs and Rasputin and the whole thing still creeps me out. Some of it is far fetched, some creepy and some out and out stupid.

Especially the part where the royals believed that Rasputin (a man who was not aquainted with a bar of soap could save their son)

I only wish that someone could cure bleeders. I have von willebrands & am sitting here right now with bruises all over. I'd be glad to have to sniff Rasputin for a cure.

They were gullible

[nickwallacesmith]

hi ekocentric - yes it's sad the wasted potential of those with mental illness

[numberonefilmfan]

Interviewer: Princess, were you aware of the plan of your husband?

Princess: Yes, (unclear).

Interviewer: And did you approve?

Princess: Yes.

Interviewer: Princess, we have said - we have repeated, that you had been in (unclear) Rasputin to his home the night of the murder? Is that true?

[nickwallacesmith]

hi numberonefilmfan - just going to go to bed when i saw your wondeful translation - thanks for taking the time - very much appreciated - i speak french and am embarassed not to have done it myself - and i'v very grateful to you. the unclear bit here is 'yes, i was aware of it'

[numberonefilmfan]

Princess: It is not at all true.

Interviewer: Why?

Princess: Because I was not there, I was (unclear).

Interviewer: Prince, in the evening of your life, when you think about Rasputin again, what sentiment comes to you at the thought of him?

[numberonefilmfan]

Prince: Disgust.

Interviewer: Did you have a personal interest in the murder of Rasputin?

Prince: None.

Interviewer: Prince, in identical circumstances, if you had to make the same decision, would you do again what you did then?

Prince: Yes.

[numberonefilmfan]

Interviewer: All of your life you have refused to let anyone tell your story. The films that have been made about Rasputin have been made without your (approval). And now, for the first time you have authorized our film. And for the first time, you appear before the camera. Prince Yusupov, why?

Prince: Because the other films did not tell the true story.

Interviewer: The man who has just spoken to you, the man who killed Rasputin, that man will now revisit his memories.

[nickwallacesmith]

hi numberonefilmfan - look, that would be really great - if you have the time, thanks very much for the offer