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23 March 1887 marks the birth of Prince Felix Yusupov. He was born at Moika Palace in Saint Petersburg. Family His father was Count Felix Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston, the son of Count Felix Nikolaievich Sumarokov-Elston. Zinaida Yusupova, his mother, was the last of the Yusupov line, of Tatar origin, and very wealthy.  For the Yusupov name not to die out, his father (1856, Saint Petersburg – 1928, Rome, Italy) was granted the title and the surname of his wife, Princess Zinaida Yusupova, on 11 June 1885, a year after their marriage, but effective after the death of his father-in-law in 1891. The Yusupov family, one of the richest families in Imperial Russia,  had acquired their wealth generations earlier. It included four palaces in Saint Petersburg, three palaces in Moscow, 37 estates in different parts of Russia, on the Crimea (at Koreiz, Kökköz and Balaklava), coal and iron-ore mines, plants and factories, flour mills and oil...

Olga Constantinovna of Russia was born on September 3rd. 1851 in Pavlovsk. Olga Constantinovna of Russia - Source picture: Wikipedia Her parents were Grand Duke Constantine of Russia and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg. In 1863 King George I of Greece visited Tsar Alexander II and his sister Dagmar, who married the later Tsar Alexander III and who took the name Maria Feodorovna.  Initially it was a political match, but Olga and King George I of Greece fell in love with each other. However Grand Duchess Olga was afraid to leave Russia. Olga Constantinovna and King George I of Greece married in the Chapel of the Winter Palace in St.Petersburg on October 27th. 1867. The wedding caused a lot of festivities (5 days long!). They were a good couple and had 8 children together, who grew up in a warm atmosphere.  In her new country, Greece, Olga founded some hospitals. Several revolutions led that the Royal Family of Greece exiled. Olga Constantinovn...