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The Yusupov Black Pearl Necklace THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE A story of incest, revolution, robbery, and infidelity, with a guest appearance by the Titanic FILE UNDER: OTHER ROYAL JEWELS WANT ME TO READ THIS POST TO YOU? CONTENTS: How Many Pearls? | The Saga Begins | The Yusupov Curse | La Migra vs. Felix | Meet Mathilde | Cue Celine Dion | Retail Therapy | The Curse Strikes Back | What Happened? | Archie’s Eggnog Recipe T’S ALWAYS SO STRANGE TO me when one Iof the most famous jewels in the world is surrounded by mystery, half-truths, untruths, and more questions than answers. The Yusupov black pearl necklace qualifies on all counts. It’s so famous it’s infamous (if you speak Three Amigos), but hardly anyone knows a thing about it. The mystery begins right away - how many pearls are in the damn thing? It’s 30 or 42, depending on which source you believe. If you believe specificity indicates accuracy, then Cartier by Hans Nadelhoffer is your go-to source. According to Nadelhoffer, the Yusupov black pearl necklace contains 30 black pearls weighing 937.84 grains (334). Sounds legit, right? I mean, who makes up the weight of pearls to two decimal points? Sounds legit, right? I mean, who makes up the weight of pearls to two decimal points? GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE Not jewelry expert Nadelhoffer, that’s for sure. But immediately after giving us these convincing statistics, Nadelhoffer launches into the necklace’s provenance by saying Catherine the Great had three illegitimate kids with her lover, Grigori Potemkin, known as the “Demoiselles d’Engelgardt” (334). Um, no. Nadelhoffer might be a jewelry expert, but he’s not a royal history expert. If you don’t believe me, believe Simon Sebag Montefiore, who wrote an extremely well- researched 632-page book about Potemkin. The Demoiselles d’Engelhardt did exist, though…and we’ll get to them in a sec. So, to recap, the necklace has 30 pearls, per Nadelhoffer. But if you believe the dozens of newspaper articles published at the time of its sale, the necklace consists of 42 pearls, not 30. Every single article in every single newspaper I found said the necklace had 42 pearls…so which is it? The answer may lie in this picture from the Yusupov jewel album: GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE IMAGE BY WORLD_JEWELLERY, POST TITLE: P EARLS OF PRINCESS IRINA YUSUPOVA. The black pearl necklace pictured has—you guessed it— 30 pearls. GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE THE SAGA BEGINS THE NECKLACE’S STORY BEGINS with Catherine the Great, its first documented owner. She gave these pearls to her lover (and likely secret husband), Prince Grigori Potemkin. Potemkin had no kids that we know of. He did, however, GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE have a very special relationship with several of his six nieces. And by “very special relationship,” I mean incest. Yes, this dude had affairs with at least three of his nieces. The upshot for them was inheriting vast quantities of money and jewels when he died. Here we come to another point of divergence in the sources. According to Nadelhoffer’s Cartier book, the black pearl necklace went from Potemkin to his niece Alexandra’s husband, Count Branicki. From there it went to Alexandra’s great-granddaughter, Maria Rosa “Bichette” Branicka, who became Princess Radziwill. Bichette then left the pearls to Zinaida Yusupova…but there’s a big problem with that story. Bichette died in 1941. Zinaida died in 1939. Kinda hard to leave a dead person a bunch of pearls. Bichette died in 1941. Zinaida died in 1939. Kinda hard to leave a dead person a bunch of pearls. GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE There’s a much simpler version of the story, which is that the pearls went to Potemkin’s youngest niece, Tatiana—one he probably didn’t have an affair with. This makes a shit-ton more sense because Tatiana married as her second husband Prince Nicholas Yusupov. Occam’s razor, you guys. TATIANA YUSUPOVA BY LOUISE ÉLISABETH VIGÉE LE BRUN, PUBLIC DOMAIN VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS . Tatiana also ended up with a black pearl called the Azra and a 17-carat pink diamond named the Ram’s Head. Not a bad haul, especially considering she didn’t have to GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE sleep with her uncle to get them. So how does that get us to the guy who first sold the black pearl necklace, Prince Felix Yusupov? Hold onto your hats as we go through a whirlwind of people who use the same names over and over again. I wasn’t consulted—don’t blame me. THE YUSUPOVS TATIANA’S ONLY SON BORIS had an only son Nicholas, who married another Tatiana. This one, Tatiana de Ribeaupierre, was painted by Winterhalter (wearing a gorgeous tiara, BTWs). GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE FRANZ XAVER WINTERHALTER, PUBLIC DOMAIN VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. Tatiana and Nicholas had one surviving child, a daughter named Zinaida. She inherited the black pearl necklace…and a fortune so large it was beyond counting. You think I’m joking, but I’m not. According to a GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE cousin, Serge Obolensky, the Yusupovs didn’t even know how much property they had. He also said it would have taken two months to make the rounds between the properties that they did know about. Nice work if you can get it, right? MEET ZINAIDA GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE Zinaida had the world on a string—she was the richest heiress in Russia and drop-dead gorgeous. Just look at that photo. Some historical figures I just can’t imagine in modern times. Others seem like they’d fit right in, and Zinaida is one of those. And does anyone else think she looks a little like Emily Blunt? Does anyone else think Zinaida Yusupova looks a little like Emily Blunt? GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE FRANÇOIS FLAMENG, PUBLIC DOMAIN VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. With a face like that, Zinaida could have married anyone. Empress Maria Feodorovna tried to set her up with Alexander of Battenberg, the Prince of Bulgaria. At least two Romanov grand dukes and two Obolensky GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE princes had the hots for her. Instead, she fell for an army officer, frustrating the hell out of her family. She and her officer, Count Felix Sumarokov-Elston, didn’t seem to have much in common. Zinaida was warm-hearted and intellectual—she loved music, art, and ballet. Felix…didn’t. He was handsome and charming, but was most at home in military company. In this case, opposites attracted. I don’t know about you, but sometimes when I meet people who are rich and beautiful and perfect and happy, I want to hate them for it. It’s a personal failing, I know. But I don’t feel this way about Zinaida—quite the opposite, in fact. By all accounts, she was sweet and sincere, and having all the money in the world never changed this. She gave millions to charity, and built schools, hospitals, houses, and a theater for the servants who lived on her country estate, Arkhangelskoye. According to her son Felix, she raised her kids with one simple edict: “The more you have, the more you owe to others.” GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE “The more you have, the more you owe to others.” –Zinaida Yuspova As for the black pearl necklace, it doesn’t look like she wore it often. Her son Felix later wrote that she didn’t like wearing jewels much at all. In his memoir, however, he did say that his mom wore black pearls to host a dinner at their palace in honor of Li-Hung-Chang, a Chinese statesman. GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE IMAGE FROM THE GRAND LADIES SITE, “ ZINAIDA AND SON.” Zinaida and her husband had three sons, by which time she was really ready for someone else with two X chromosomes. When she got pregnant a fourth time, she bought a layette for a girl. But the power of positive thinking didn’t help. That baby was yet another boy, Felix. Later, Felix would write in his memoir that she dressed him like a girl until he was five. That was GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE common practice in aristocratic circles, though. Don’t let Felix fool you into thinking this influenced his later— shall we say—proclivities. THE YUSUPOV CURSE YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED that up until the generation where Zinaida had four sons, the Yusupovs who inherited the pearl necklace tended to be only children. There’s a good reason for that—the Yusupov curse. Yusupov family lore traces their origins back to a descendant of Mohammed’s nephew, the Prophet Ali. After centuries of loyalty to the Golden Horde, they became khans in their own right in the Crimea. Then, a Yusupov ancestor switched sides and allied himself with the grand dukes of Muscovy instead. Several generations later, Khan Abdul-Murza Yusuf made that switch official by converting from Islam to Orthodoxy. He took the name Dmitri, and Tsar Feodor gave him the title of Prince Yusupov. But according to family lore, the Prophet Ali (or a Muslim sorceress working on his behalf) was really GIRLINTHETIARA.COM | THE YUSUPOV BLACK PEARL NECKLACE ticked off about that conversion. Ticked off enough to lay a curse on the family that no more than one male heir per generation would live past age 26.
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