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Along the walk on Moskovsky Pr.: the Yusupov Gardens, named after the wealthy and respected Yusupov family. The prince Felix Yusupov (1887–1967), Count Sumarokov-Elston, led a group of men here in the murder of Grigory Rasputin, a peasant who had gained control over the Tsar's family through his alleged mystical powers.