Prince Boris Grigoryevich Yusupov (Russian : Борис Григорьевич Юсупов; 1695–1759) was a Russian nobleman and politician.

Life

From the

house of Yusupov The House of Yusupov () was a Russian Empire, Russian Knyaz, princely family descended from the monarchs of the Nogai Horde, renowned for their immense wealth, philanthropy and art collections in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most notably, Prince ...

, a Russian noble family descended from 10th-century

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s, he was elected a senator and became governor general of Moscow and St Petersburg. His parents were

Grigory Dmitriyevich Yusupov Prince Grigory Dmitriyevich Yusupov ( 17 ( 27 ) November 1676 - 2 ( 13 ) September 1730, Moscow) was a Russian nobleman and member of the Yusupov family. He was father of Boris Grigoryevich Yusupov. Life Whilst still a child Feodor III of Russia ...

(1676–1730), friend and minister of war to

Peter I of Russia Peter I (, ; – ), better known as Peter the Great, was the Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V until 1696. From this year, ...

, and his wife Anna Nikitchna Akinfova, daughter of an okolnichy (noble rank below that of

boyar A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Bulgaria, Kievan Rus' (and later Russia), Moldavia and Wallachia (and later Romania), Lithuania and among Baltic Germans. C ...

). He was the great-great-grandfather of prince

Felix Yusupov Knyaz Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston (; – 27 September 1967) was a Russian aristocrat from the House of Yusupov who is best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin and for marrying Princess Irina ...

. At age 20, Boris was sent to study in the French navy. He became a chamberlain in 1730, governor general of Moscow in 1738 and a senator from 18 June 1695 to 3 March 1759. Under Elizabeth I of Russia he was put in control of the Russian imperial schools and in 1749 was made governor of St Petersburg.

Marriage and issue

He married Irina Mikhaïlovna Zinovieva (1718-1788), daughter of Mikhaïl Petrovitch Zinoviev, with whom he had five children: * Evdokia (1743–1780), married 1774

Peter von Biron Peter von Biron (15 February 1724 – 13 January 1800) was the last duke of Courland and Semigallia from 1769 to 1795, when it was annexed by the Russian Empire. Life and reign Peter was born in Jelgava () as the oldest son of Ernst Johann ...

(1724-1800),

duke of Courland The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia was a duchy in the Baltic region, then known as Livonia, that existed from 1561 to 1569 as a nominal vassal state of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and subsequently made part of the Crown of the Polish Kingdo ...

; separated in 1776, divorced in 1778 * Alexandra (1744–1791), married Ivan Mikhaïlovitch Izmaïlov (1724–1787) * Elisaveta (1745–1770), in 1764 married prince Andreï Mikhaïlovitch Golitsyn (1729–1770) * Anna (1749–1772), in 1771 married Alexandre Iakovlevitch Protasov (1742–1799) * Nikolaï (1751–1831), in 1793 married Tatiana Vassilievna von Engelhart (1769–1841), one of the nieces of prince

Grigori Potemkin Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski (A number of dates as late as 1742 have been found on record; the veracity of any one is unlikely to be proved. This is his "official" birth-date as given on his tombstone.) was a Russian mi ...

External links

*http://www.alexanderpalace.org/LostSplendor/intro.html 1695 births 1759 deaths Boris Burials at Lazarevskoe Cemetery (Saint Petersburg) Governors-general of Moscow Nobility from the Russian Empire {{Russia-bio-stub