# Portrait of Count Feliks Feliksovich Sumarokov-Yelstov [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SEROV, Valentin]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 89 x 72 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Count Feliks Feliksovich Sumarokov-Yelstov 1903 Oil on canvas, 89 x 72 cm State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Count Feliks Feliksovich Sumarokov-Yelstov \(1887-1967\) was the later Prince Yusupov, the Russian nobleman who arranged the murder in 1916 of the Tsar and Tsarina's close adviser, the 'holy man' Grigory Rasputin. As a young man he married Irina Romanov, the niece of Tsar Nicholas II. Like many members of the Royal Court, Yusupov objected to the influence that Grigory Rasputin had over the Tsar and his wife, Alexandra Fedorovna. ## Related artworks - [Girl with Peaches]() - [Portrait of Felix Yusupov]() - [Portrait of Mika Morozov]() - [Portrait of Princess Orlova \(detail\)]() - [Portrait of Princess Orlova]() - [Portrait of Princess Yusupova \(detail\)]() - [Portrait of Princess Yusupova]() - [Two Boys \(detail\)]() - [Two Boys]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()