Five generations of elite aristocratic dynastyYusupov were the owners of the palace on the Moika from in St Petersburg from 1830 to 1917.
The palace went down in the domestic history and how the murder scene of Grigory Rasputin - Siberian peasant who became a
beginning of XX century spiritual mentor and family friend  of Emperor Nicholas II . The tragedy took place the night of 17 December 1916 on the residential half of the young Prince Felix Yusupov.

The Yusupov Palace also functions as a cultural centre, hosting classical concerts and theatre performances in the beautiful rococo Palace Theatre and the equally impressive White-Columns Hall.

One of two surviving St. Petersburg residences of the monumentally wealthy Yusupov family, the Yusupov Palace on the Moika River is perhaps most famous as the scene of the assassination of Grigory Rasputin, and is one of the few aristocratic homes in the city to have retained many of its original interiors.