Princess Zenaida and Count Felix - parents of Felix-jr, their family life

[ashanti01]

Family:

Alexandre,

 thank you for posting those images. The second family picture I have seen before but the not first. Is there way to get a better image of it posted?

Thanks

[ashanti01]

I was able enlarge the first picture but trying to get a clear image. The writing is in french, correct? Is it from a french book?

[PAVLOV]

I love the military photographs. Does anyone know where they were taken ? I wonder what the building on the hill was, it looks very interesting. Could this have been Krasnoe Selo ? If so, the building could have been some sort of lookout post.

Also could someone tell me where Zenaida and Felix lived at the end of their lives ? I seem to remember reading that it was a Villa near Rome.
Does anyone have photographs or the name of the Villa ?

Thanks

[ashanti01]

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Felix Sr being painted by Serov

[ashdean]

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Felix Sr being painted by Serov

This the smaller of the 2 Serov paintings of Felix was the one Felix jr had in his London flat and thus was not lost in the revolution.Later the property of the famed cellist Rostopvitch it returned to Russia when his collection was bought enbloc by a obligarch and returned to Russia.

[Carolath Habsburg]

i must say Felix Sr looks pretty handsome in this one

[ashanti01]

Indeed, Felix Sr was a very handsome man in his youth. Zenaida and Felix made a very handsome couple in their youth.

[Carolath Habsburg]

me like him *0*

[Carolath Habsburg]

Felix buying some thing

[ashanti01]

From left to right: Felix, Felix Sr, unknown, Nicholas, unknown woman, and Princess Zenaida at their country estate Arkhangelskoye

[ashanti01]

Felix Sr.

[Carolath Habsburg]

Some great captures of Felix from a russian documentary



And a cute secuence of Zenaide and Felix from a well known photoshoot




 

 

[Svetabel]

Here I posted the same ,but in a bit better quality:

http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=10775.195

[ashanti01]

Prince Felix Yusupov Sr. seated in the middle of the group 1890s (you can see a the portrait of Princess Zenaida by GD Elizabeth to the right)

[Alexandre64]

Princess Zenaide and Pearls: