Russian aristocrat and murderer Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov was BOTD in 1887. Born in the Moika Palace in St Petersburg, he was the youngest son of wealthy aristocrats Count Felix Sumarokov-Elston and Princess Zinaida Yusupova. He grew up in luxury, and became infamous as a teenager for cross-dressing to get into nightclubs. After the death of his elder brother Nicholas in 1908, he became heir to the family fortune, including three palaces in Moscow, 37 estates across Russia and the Crimea, coal and iron-ore mines, factories, flour mills and oil fields. In 1909, he began studying at Oxford University in England, living lavishly in central London with live-in boyfriends Luigi Franchetti and Jacques de Beistegui. Returning to Russia in 1913, he married Princess Irina Alexandrovna, the niece of Tzar Nicholas II, having one daughter together. He is also thought to have had a long-term affair with his cousin Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich. Exempted from military service during World War One due to his being an only son, Yusupov established a hospital for wounded soldiers. In 1915, he joined the Imperial Army, and was appointed commander-in-chief of the Moscow Military District, losing the post following rumours that his family was colluding with German enemy forces. In 2016, he and Pavlovich joined a conspiracy to assassinate the faith-healer Grigori Rasputin, whose influence over the Tzarina and Russian military policy had become a national scandal. Shortly before Christmas, they invited Rasputin to a party at the Moika Palace, poisoning and shooting him before dumping his body in the Nevka River. According to legend, they also castrated him, keeping his (enormous) penis as a trophy. Yusupov and Pavlovich were sentenced to house arrest, though never brought to trial. Three months later, Nicholas abdicated the throne. Yusupov and his family went into exile in Crimea, before escaping from Russia on a British warship. They lived in London for two years before settling in Paris, living lavishly as part of the Russian expatriate community and briefly opening a fashion house. In 1928, he published a highly successful (if heavily embellished) account of Rasputin’s assassination. He and Irina successfully sued American film studio MGM in 1932 for libel and invasion of privacy following the release of Rasputin and the Princess, which portrayed Irina being seduced by Rasputin. Yusupov remained married to Irina for the rest of his life, while discreetly pursuing same-sex affairs. He died in 1967, aged 80. He has been portrayed numerous times onscreen, notably by John Drew Barrymore in The Night They Killed Rasputin, Martin Potter in Nicholas and Alexandra and James Frain in Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny.