The Yusupov House

The house you are approaching in the sixteenth arrondissement, at thirty-eight rue Pierre-Guérin, served as the final sanctuary for one of the most enigmatic figures of the Russian Revolution. This modest Parisian residence was the home of Prince Felix Yusupov and his wife, Princess Irina, from nineteen forty-three until their deaths. After fleeing the collapse of the Russian Empire and navigating years of exile, the couple settled here in a quiet corner of the city. While the prince is historically infamous for his role in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin in Saint Petersburg, he spent his remaining decades in these rooms, surrounded by the remnants of a vanished world.