Yusupov

Genealogy

Yusupov (Youssoupov):  ЮСУПОB

The Princes Yusupov

The Yusupov Palace, St Petersburg

The family of the Princes Yusupov is descended from the Princes of Nagai and trace their origins to Ahabek-Kerei Dok, master of a domain whose descendants were rulers in  various places, among which Egypt. A descendant of Ahabek-Kerei, Prince Musa, had a  son Yusuf, from whom is descended the Yusupov family, which has served the Russian Throne in noble positions and were granted several fiefdoms and awarded with Orders and other tokens of the Sovereign's favour.

The line of Hereditary Commanders became extinct in the male line in 1979 with the demise of the 5th Commander, Prince Nikolai Dmitrievich.

Yusupov Genealogy

Prince Nikolai Borisovich (1751-1831)

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.- Abdoul Mirza Yusupov-Knyazhevo Prince Dmitri (*c.1650+1694) , Steward:  (assumed the name of Dmitri on converting to Christianity)

                1m: Ekaterina Yakovlevna Sumarokova; 2m: Princess Tatiana Fyodorovna Korkodinova (+1719)   

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.- Prince Grigori Dmitriev (*c.1690-?) General-in-Chief, Minister of Defence, (*17.11.1676+2.9.1730)

            m. Anna Nikitichna Akinfova (+1735), daughter of Okolnichi Nikita Ivanovich Akinfov

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.- Prince Boris Grigorievich (*c.1725+?) (1st Hereditary Commander) Chamberlain 1730, General Governor of Moscow 1738, Senator, *Moscow 18.6.1695, +Moscow 1.3.1759; m.1734 Irina Mikhailovna Zinovyeva (*1718 +25.3.1788), daughter of Mikhail Petrovich Zinoviev, Steward                                    

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.- Prince Nikolai Borisovitch (*15.3.1751+15.7.1831) (2nd Hereditary Commander) Senator, Minister of State Properties, Director of Imperial Theatres, Ambassador to Turin)

m. 1793 Tatiana Vassilievna von Engelhardt Yusupova (*1.1.1769+23.5.1841)  daughter of Vasily Andreievich von Engelhardt Yussupov and Helena Alexandrovna Potemkine

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.- Prince Boris Nikolaievich (*9.6.1794+25.10.1849) (3rd Hereditary Commander) m. Zenaida Ivanovna Naryshkina, Comtesse de Chauveau, Marquise de Serre (*1809 +26.2.1893)

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.- Prince Nikolai Borisovich (*1.10.1827+31.7.1891) (4th Hereditary Commander) m.Countess Tatiana Alexandrovna Ribeaupierre (*29.6.1828 +14.1.1879)

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.- Princess Zinaida Nikolaievna (right) (*2.9.1861+24.11.1939)

m. 4.4.1882 Count Felix Soumarokov-Elston Prince Yusupov¹ (*5.10.1856+Rome 10.6.1928) (5th Hereditary Commander)

#Second Line

Count Felix Soumarokov-Elston Prince Yusupov (5th Hereditary Commander) m. Princess Zinaida Nikolaievna (*c1865+24.11.1939)

1.- Prince Felix Felixovich, Prince Yusupov Count Soumarokov-Elston (right) (*23.3.1887+27.9.1967) (6th Hereditary Commander) (he murdered Rasputin) buried Cemetery of Sainte Genevieve des Bois, Paris

m.  22.2.1914 HH Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (right) ( (*15.7.1895+26.2.1970)    

1.1.- Princess Irina Felixovna *St.Petersburg 21.3.1915, +Cormeilles 30.8.1983;

m.Paris 19.6.1938 Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Sheremetev (*Moscow 28.10.1904, +Paris 5.2.1979)

1.1.1.- Countess Xenia Nikolaievna Sheremetev-Yusupov *Rome 1.3.1942; m.Athens 20.6.1965 Ilias Sfyris [Sfiri] (*Athens 20.8.1932)

1.1.1.1. Tatiana Sfyris- Sheremetev-Yusupov, *Athens 28.8.1968; m.1996 Alexis Giamakoupoulos (*1963) living in Athens

Note 

1. On June 11, 1885, by virtue of an imperially sanctioned opinion of the State Council, Count Felix Soumarokov-Elston was authorised to assume the name and title of his father-in-law, Prince Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov on condition that the combined name of Prince Yusupov Count Soumarokov-Elston be borne exclusively by Felix Soumarokov-Elston, his senior male descendent.

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