Welcome to several most interesting tours of the Yusupov Palace on the Moika! The tour of the main rooms created in the 1830s for the first owner of the palace, Prince Boris Nikolaevich Yusupov and his beautiful wife Zinaida Ivanovna, will allow you to enjoy the beautiful interior and heat a captivating story about the owners of the palace who rivaled the Imperial Family with their luxury and riches. You will hear about the fate of the Prince Yusupov art collection, which was rightfully known as one of the best of its kind in Europe. You will visit the Home Theater that looks like a gilded jewelry-box. You will hear a story of the women of the Yusupov clan, their love and devotion. In the rooms of the Young Princes Yusupov, the last owners of the palace, you will experience new surprises when you enter the Aladdin Cave, as Irina and Felix Yusupovs called their jewelry collection.

The most mystical and mysterious story related to the Yusupov Palace is the murder of the famous Grigory Rasputin who treated heir apparent Alexey from his hemophilia and had a powerful influence on Empress Alexandra Fedorovna. The assassination was carried out in the early hours of December 17, 1916 by Prince Felix Yusupov, Grand Prince Dmitry Pavlovich, and others. You will find yourselves in the atmosphere of this tragic event when you will visit the exposition telling about the murder of Rasputin.

We offer the following tours

  • The Yusupov Palace as a historic and cultural monument of the 18th-20th centuries — a guided tour of the palace.

  • Grigory Rasputin: Myths and Reality — a guided tour of Felix Yusupov’s private quarters where Rasputin was murdered.

  • Princes’ Residence — a tour of the private quarters of palace owners in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

  • History of the House of Yusupov (10th – 21st centuries) — an exhibition of documents.

  • Last Owners of Yusupov Palace — a guided tour of the young Yusupovs’ quarters with a visit to Grigory Rasputin: Myths and Reality exposition.

  • A Visit with Princes Yusupov — a guided tour of the main rooms of the second floor for elementary school children.