{{Short description|Russian nobleman}} thumb '''Prince Boris Grigoryevich Yusupov''' (Russian : Борис Григорьевич Юсупов; 1695–1759) was a Russian nobleman and politician.
==Life== From the house of Yusupov, a Russian noble family descended from 10th-century khans, he was elected a senator and became governor general of Moscow and St Petersburg. His parents were Grigory Dmitriyevich Yusupov (1676–1730), friend and minister of war to Peter I of Russia, and his wife Anna Nikitchna Akinfova, daughter of an okolnichy (noble rank below that of boyar). He was the great-great-grandfather of prince Felix Yusupov.
At age 20, Boris was sent to study in the French navy. He became a chamberlain in 1730, governor general of Moscow in 1738 and a senator from 18 June 1695 to 3 March 1759. Under Elizabeth I of Russia he was put in control of the Russian imperial schools and in 1749 was made governor of St Petersburg.
== Marriage and issue== He married Irina Mikhaïlovna Zinovieva (1718-1788), daughter of Mikhaïl Petrovitch Zinoviev, with whom he had five children: * Evdokia (1743–1780), married 1774 Peter von Biron (1724-1800), duke of Courland ; separated in 1776, divorced in 1778 * Alexandra (1744–1791), married Ivan Mikhaïlovitch Izmaïlov (1724–1787) * Elisaveta (1745–1770), in 1764 married prince Andreï Mikhaïlovitch Golitsyn (1729–1770) * Anna (1749–1772), in 1771 married Alexandre Iakovlevitch Protasov (1742–1799) * Nikolaï (1751–1831), in 1793 married Tatiana Vassilievna von Engelhart (1769–1841), one of the nieces of prince Grigori Potemkin.
==External links== *http://www.alexanderpalace.org/LostSplendor/intro.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209194501/http://www.alexanderpalace.org/lostsplendor/intro.html |date=2017-12-09 }}
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