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The two central figures in the action →→ Princess Youssupoff and her husband, photographed with their baby in the Palace of Moika, St Petersburg
Princess
Sues
Case-Book Of Sir Patrick Hastings KC... Case No.
the Imperial Court."
sprang from a charlatan in the still at the table and the Prince tion. The main ground on the moment "for"which"evër”- city streets to the favourite of fired shut after shot into his which the pinintiff must rely body had been waiting, and the-
body, while his victim charged was based on the fact that, in defendants counsel at once ro- about the room roaring “liko a real lif Rasputin had bden plied that he disputed it com-i bull.
killed by Prince Youssupoff and, pletely. consequently, if the flim was, as It purported to be, a true At last ho fall to the ground of the story it portrayed,,
No doubt the defendants fully a true picture
the realised the diMculty
in which Power and 'Yourupoff, in a frenzy of tictitious Prince Chekodieff must such a denial would place rao, and still more power was his horror, beat him to death with have been intended to represent but it had to be faced. I called ambition, and, with an Emperor loaded stick. Then, with the Prince Youskapoff, and iconic distraught with troublo and an aid of his colleagues, the body quently the princess of the Alm Empress hysterical with was thrown into the ice-bound inust have been intended for his
I ho had been content with mero Anancial recognition no great harm would have been done, but he was not.
gratitude, he found instrumenta diver. ready to his hand.
Revolution
wife,
Prince Youssupoff into the box.
impressive witness,
If the Princess had been an
the Prince. was no less remarkable. It was. But in a court of law facts en awful story that he had to have to be proved,. If the da- tell, but he told it without fendants would admit that passion, and indeed, without Rasputin had been killed by emotion of any kind. The invita- Prince Youssupoff, many of the tion to the Molka Palace, the filmculties would disappear. 'poisoned cakes, the revolver shots, the loaded stick--he told,
Tale of horror
But if they denied it the only it all.
could prove the Witness who fact, was Prince Youssupoft im
into the box to self, and it was a terrible responsibility to put a wittiess give evidence that he had been gullty of assassination.
I am bound to confess that I entered on the case with co-
"I killed Rasputin," he said. It was my duty to kill him, so I killed him."
Within a few months he be- como a virtual ruler of all the
It was, of course, inevitable Russians. Suggestions to his that the death of Rasputin would Imperial master became com- become public Imowledge, and mands; ho caused generala to be suspicion nimost immediately Idegraded and high statesmen to tell on Prince Youssupoff. He be removed. Nobody in Rusala
was arrested and, possibly be. felt safo in the face of his cause of the universal hatred devilish ̈machinations, through all the changes Rasputin sentence passed on bim by the and felt towards his victim, the only 'remained drunken, dirty and Tear was banishment.
debauched.
He was oxiled from St
The defendants were forced to That he should be hated out- Petersburg to a remote portion
challenge every statement he side the Court was, of course, of his estate in provincial
had made, and to try to discredit. Inevitable, but po great was the Hussin, and he never returned, siderable anxiety.
his evidente, even to the extent terror he inspired that even Boon afterwards came the
of suggesting that it was not he, his unpopularity might not have Revolution, and Prince and
but one his friends, more closely brought about his downfall but Princess Yoursuperf cscaped
resembling the exilious Frince for a rumour that he was not. a kom Russin, bereft of all their The action was tried before Chebodian” - whp, WERE S loyal Russian but a German spy, great possessions, to live their Mr Justice Avory and a special sponsible for, the a Men began to whisper, that he lives in comparative poverty Jury. The court, was crammed Ordinary Englishmen was in the pay, of Germany, and obscurity in a foreign to suffocation with well-known women do not like such tales of men and women, many of whom horror, and the defendants may must
known the have thought that the longer-
days, Prince, Yousupolt was required and all of them listening eagerly to tell his story the greater wax to the true account of events the which had rocked an Empire.
chance that the jury might be prejudiced against him, and i The Prince and Princess alone he was cross-examined for ma appeared unmoved as they took period that musi have seemed their places in the well of the interminable. Every detail war court, where, save for their time disputed every statement was in the witness box, they sat challenge throughout the Tong trial Are
and that the betrayal of Russia capital. was his.alm. The Tear was to be deposed and Rasyutin was to
be ruler in his place,
True account
Except for themselves, all the Youssupoffa in happier principal characters In the
Youssupoff
Libel
For
1
So long as personal hatred, tragedy were dead-Rasputin at and even fear, was, the main that hand of Prince Youssupoft feeling inspired by the charlatan and the Tsar and all his family
foully murdered. monk, nobody could be found raise a hand against him, but once their country was In danger the situation changed, While Rasputin lived Russia win in peril, so Rasputin must die.
HEN the Princess Russia. Dell with unexampled
Irena Alexan- cruelty on
the young Prince and Princesa Yoursupoff. drovna Youssu- poff, a
royal.
The strange Agure of Rasputin princess of the Imperial is now well-known to history, Court of Russia, stood in fe is said to have been a monk, the witness box of the although there appears to be no court of the Lord Chief evidence to support such a con- tention, and hir origin remains Justice in her action
wrapped in mystery. against Metro-Goldwyn - Mayer Pictures Corpora-
Even then nobody could be He suddenly appeared in the, tion, her
story contained Russian capital during the first found with sufficient courage to more clements of human World War, and almost im- kill him, and it was in those tragedy than any other mediately became the centre of circumstances that Prince
controversy. civil action I have
Some people, re Youssupoff undertook the task known.
him almost as a god, To him it was not assassination garded others looked on him merely as but a duty to his country.
dangerous and disgusting
ever
a
rascal.
:
Some years later Metro Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation of America decided to produce a film portraying the death of Rasputin.
no
But
the case
motionless and silent.
NANCEnation..
and
70 really maggesting
that you gave Hasputin cakes
I opened the case in the ex- soaked in polson, and that he pectans court without rhetorical, ate them?" embellisansub story sarate film pinget cakes, WAR dramatic enough.
He ate them. He would not die, that, with an award- anxiety so I had to shoot, him,” only an advocato can know called Princess Youssupoif.
The
It was suggested that it was demeanour of the plaintiff in a
not he, but ane od his
corn- libel action is all-important, and panions red the shots.
ever foretell no counsel can what impression a witness may make on a court. The mast intelligent may appear nervous and uncertain; the most truthful, desire for accuracy, give an appearance of prevarica- lon.
in their
Told story
I need not
have worried.
ап
the
Long ordeal
"As he would not die I left the a revolver from room. I took my friend. 1. ahot Rasputin. Many times I shot him.
Sum he would not die, He roared like a bull. I beat him to death with a heavy slick. Then we threw him into the river.""
The family and fortunes of magnetic healing, and such was assassination was the apparent. And was afterwards to become in the film. She-neitherṛargued, and the fictitious prince Cheko Prince Youssuport seem to have his peculiar personality that he support afforded to this con- sprung from the most romantic undoubtedly
tention. Bullets, succeeded in beginning. It is said that he persuading many people that bis could not harm him, In
it was said, was directly descended from claim was justified. the last Emperor of Tarlary.
Rasptitia could got die.
The Tsarevitch
fact,
it was suggested unwise:
hez
The production was to be as near the truth as possible. Real characters were to be portrayed on the screen-the Tsar, the Tearinn, the Tsarovich, and, of' course, Rasputin. They were
All who heard him may well. all dead, and consequently there, Princess Youssupoff was by any of them.
advocato's have been appalled by such an was no danger of any complaint realisation of
dream. Throughout her long awful story, but to question the and painful ordeal ber demean- truth of anything he was telling
wat quíte Impossible. It unfolded the life history of
nf Prince "ur nover altered. She showed us Youssupoff was more difficult. neither indignation nor distress. Throughout his long ordeal the young prince and princess
every question Prince stood like a @gure carved driven into exile, by the Russian and unkempt,
In appearance he was dirty Poisoned food without a killer there could be. She answered
assassination, and Prince without hesitation and with une in stone. revolution, and it told the awful personal habits ho was revolting, while in his
Youssuport was alive. So two failing courtesy, although some.
"I had not killed a man be- story of the assassination of a drunken libertine without, as
To kill Rasputin would not be purely Imaginary characters of the suggestions made to her might well have provoked an
fore, but it was my duty to kill Rasputin, the man who did so far as I have been able to dis acy. Superstition claimed that were introduced into the story, outburst.
Rasputin." 601/killed him." much to bring about the down- cover, a single redeeming merit. he was impervious to poison, and portrayed
a Pri
Prince
Chekodieff, who was ទទ having slain fall of the Imperial House.
Now the defendant's main de- She accepted without question fence remained. The total dis- by no means the least remark- Rasputin, and a Princess But be claimed for himself a able incident in his subsequent was described
who' every dissimilarity in character as his flancee. netween herself and the princess
similarity between Youssupoff unique gift; the power of
his wife!
Mediefr was again accentuated, nor explained. She merely told and, as had the Princess, the her story. And no douba party Prince agreed to every sugges-- Unfortunately there was fur- because of the tion made to him. In character their deviation from accuracy of! was creating the fach Possibly with
defender? a view to were driven to a form of cross the same...
the two people were in no way <fording a more sympathetic examination which I thought In the plan, which he formed explanation of the Prince's
action, a
in- a purely imaginary
Film shown the Prince obtained the willing client was-Introduced into the chops with the object o co-operation of a number of story that
minimising any possible. Rasputin bad damages, that she had been in- Once again I thought the de- the unworthy, or at least une that. veo i had called Prince dignified, object of obtaining Youssupoff the real importance money from the defendanta. of dissimilarity between tho characters tended to fade into The Princess, treated thờ....Bug-
the background. gestion with calm contempt, und when she left the box there At the conclusion of the plain- "When the filin was publicly was no doubt that she carried ti's case the jury were invited revelled, where his food was shown the Princess was not with her the sympathy of all to see the Almand, when the
Red. She saw herself degraded who had heard her. zaluated with polson, and the
Jury returned to court, the de- of all who knew her, Ja revolvers were ready in case the and she tried her utmost
eyes
fendants adopted a course which polson talled. No loophole was prevent a wider showing of the reached the real substance of decided to call evidence to ac
But even, then we had not played into my head. They left unstopped.
who had production, or at least to have the case;
killed. centuate the
differences deleted from the film those por Rasputin? ******* Од the appointed night long which represented her fri Resputin arrived and Was such revolting conditions, but. I rose and asked counsel for received with every evidence of her efforts were unsuccessful, the defendants if it was disputed and all were unanimous that the luxurious enjoyment. Music
that, they dan tar had been caused was provided, apparently for his denied that she was in any way
The film company stoutly by Prince, Yomspun," It was ((Condhuset, du Page 7 CSI; 1)- entertainment, but in reality to portrayed in their production prevent the nolo of any Prince
Chekodief! and the outside Princess were
both, they saidĮ purely fictitious characters bear Ing no possible resemblance either to Princess Youssupoff and they declined bolli har rën quests.
When Tartary was overTUN by Russian hordes, the con-
Ivan Fqueror;
Terrible, adopted the heir of the defeated
Uto
His visit to St Peteraborg was young men of the highest post reduced or raped the Princess duced to bring the action with fendants had been unwise. Now,
Fruler
well-timed. as his con, and on his singularly death bestowed on the young young Tsarevich lay dying. prince, who then took on the
לבנת,
The
and titlo of Prince Doctors from all over Europe Youssupoff, tracts of land so had been summoned to his bed enormous that they were almost side without avall, Nobody Impossible to measure.
could
cffect 3 cure; nobody could even diagnose his illness and all hope of recovery
was
Great charm practically abandoned,
In these tragic circumstances In 1915 Prince Felix a lady of the Court told the Youssupol was the survivor of Empress of Rasputin's strangu the family, and possessed of reputation he was openly clim- their vast inheritance.
ing throughout the city that no cure was beyond his power,
The Prince was a young man of great chrIm in manner and Tortured by personal appearance. There is misery and despair, the Empress agony of a portrait of him, painted by a
was prepared to clutch at any well-known Russian artist, which straw, Rosputin' was summoned to the Palace and taken to the sick
bf tho dying
in remarkable in its beauty.
even
Ilia wealth was unbelievable Tsarevich.
for a
Russian prince. Money meant nothing to him;
ז'
tion in Court
And which formed one of the most Rasputin's death was prepared important in the plot, with the utmost care.
Rasputin was to be Invited to the Molkn Palace, under the pretence' of cojoying one of the drunken orgies in which ho
struggle, reaching world.
Sweet cakes
kil
0
Difficulties
ta
In consequence the Princess
The
Actitious
whatever he desired was always know what steps if any, Rasputini to one of the lower rooms of instituted proceedings against
Probably nobody will ever He was conducted by his host at his disposal "Fabulous" ia the only word which can convey took but from the day of fly the Palace and there regaled with the company for libel, and the the immensity of his possessions. Brival at the palace the health a surfeit of the sweet cakes in case was brought to me.
of the young Prince improved, which he rovelled. The calca In 1914 he married the His pain left him and his illnad were saturated with enough tin's path were obvious.
The difficulties in the plain- Princess: Irena, nieco
disappear. of the seemed to
Out
to polson
tho dozen characters of the Monk men, and Ter, whose beauty must have wardly, at any rate,
Prince Томпиров been outstanding: even in the bad made good his claim, and stood by and watched Rasputin: Prince and princess were entire Russian cost, and
the heir to the Russian throne wolt them, one by one. the young couple may well have
wis girved. been envied fa thoir Wyes and in their Lonio, the Moika Palaco, at St Petersburg!
The tragedy which was so soon to blist all the nobility off
those o different from Princes Youssupaff ̈and, Без Burhand, and no doubt, the Jury To hl, amazement and horror woud be invited to géom, pork The gratitude of the Thar and the polson appeared to have no formance of the filment wher Tearing know no bounds. No affect, and the Prince rushed those differences would be call giftal could be too great and no from the room to obtain: CE Their attentioIDAS position too night for the saviour revolver from his companionut the rent difficulty BEDED of their, won. In day Rasputia. When he turned Rasputin was from quite a different considera
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