So it was with Gabrielle Chanel and the elegant, discreet Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, the cousin of Czar Nicolas II, who was sent into exile following the murder of Rasputin, the influential ...

Rasputin was killed by a group of Russian nobles, including Prince Felix Youssupov (Czar Nicholas’ niece’s husband) and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich (Nicholas’ cousin) in December 1916.

A group of noblemen, led by Prince Felix Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, lured Rasputin to a palace in St. Petersburg. He was poisoned, shot, and ultimately thrown into a frozen river ...