St. Petersburg’s Other Yusupov Palaces

by Greg King

Mention the Yusupov Palace in St. Petersburg and minds immediately flash to No. 94 Moika.  It was the largest, most lavish and – thanks to the 1916 murder of Rasputin in its basement – most infamous of the aristocratic family’s residences in the Imperial capital.  During the years of Romanov rule, the building on the Moika was technically not entitled t…