The plot to kill Grigori Rasputin the mad monk is very well-known in history. Hollywood movies were made with the topic. Not many people know that Prince Felix Yussupov was related to Muhammad the Prophet. The Yussupovs were of ancient Tatar origin. They were descendants of the Prophet Ali, a nephew of Muhammad. During the times of Ivan the terrible, a branch of the family joined Russia and converted to Orthodoxy.
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