Hi to everybody 
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I recently bought a new version (this one is a french version entitled Memoirs which taled his story before and during his exil) of the book Lost Splendor, but I can't still find exactly the relation between Félix and Raspoutine 
. I know that Félix killed him as well for personnal (cause there was a kind of homoerotic relation between the two but mostly from Félix) reasons as political. It is said that Félix killed him 'cause he was in love with Raspoutine and this one rejected his propositions 'cause his was most interested in Irina.
So here is my question:
Was there a real physical relation between the two?And maybe something more important than just simply this physical relation? Because I don't know if you have ever read this french version, 'cause Félix tales and lets some strange and precious clues 
Thanks and I'm so happy to be a new member of this Forum abt the Prince Youssoupoff of who I am totally in love with 
I don't believe there was anything physical, because while Felix was most likely bi/gay, Rasputin only went with women. This is not to say that Felix wasn't interested in Rasputin, and that could have had something to do it, I can't say. I personally can't imagine Felix being sexually interested in Rasputin, since he was usually dirty and scruffy, and Felix liked beauty, elegance, and clean, perfume smelling people.
Felix himself admits first going to see Rasputin with Munya Golovina, a friend and supporter. While he refers to her in his book only as Mlle. G, this is who she was. In other books about Rasputin, like Greg King's and Radzinsky's, we learn that after the death of Felix's brother in a duel, Munya, who had been in love with him, became distraught and wanted to lie on his grave and die there. She was determined to see him again. Believing Rasputin could conjure the dead, she went to see him. Assuming from these reports, this is why Felix went with her, to contact his dead brother.
He became fascinated with the starets, and his gypsy music lifestyle. He admits to having been hypnotized by Rasputin until his body was redendered helpless. The reasons he wanted to be hypnotized are up for debate, there are several theories, according to several books.
It is also important to know that Rasputin was hated deeply by Felix's mother, Zenaida. There are letters dating back as early as 1913 in which she, Ella (Alexandra's sister, Dmitri's aunt who raised him), and Anna Rodzianko, Zenaida's cousin and wife of Duma President Michael Rodzianko,( who had once proclaimed he'd have killed Rasputin himself if he weren't so 'old and fat!') which discuss their dislike of Rasputin and how they consider him a threat to Russia. These letters are written with code for each character, Rasputin being 'the book.' Some of these can be read right here on this site. Zenaida and Ella were eventually disowned by Alexandra for trying to tell her to get rid of Rasputin, and Felix's father. old Felix, lost his job as "Lord Mayor" of Moscow when he expressed his opinion that Rasputin be run out of town and away from Alexandra. So you see, he, as well as Dmitri, had a person stake in Rasputin's demise. Their families had been shamed becauses of him. Not only were their relatives against him, they also saw themselves as heroes to their country by getting rid of him since most nobility considered him to be ruining Russia and bringing down the dynasty.
Another note on Dmitri: there were those at the time who wanted to oust the Tsar and install Dmitri as Tsar. This is perhaps why Felix and Purishkevitch deny Dmitri had an important role in the murder, while some historians feel he did, and may even have delivered the final fatal gunshot.
Finally, welcome to another Felix lover! I hope to see you around more Felix threads!
