For riches and N.P.Sheremetev's wastefulness contemporaries named ' Krez menshoj '. Pushkin in one of the poems named Nikolay Borisovicha Jusupova ' descendant Aristippa '. This exact definition. Aristipp - the Ancient Greek philosopher of V century to n. E. - learnt, that the purpose of each person is the aspiration to pleasures. Wise men should make only these pleasures peace and joyful, alien pernicious passions.

Father N.B.Jusupova-. G.Jusupov the first has got in Petersburg ' for own pleasure ' theatrical representations. It was the chief of the Shljahetsky case, and the scene of its theatre was played, mainly, by cadets. N.B.Jusupov was close to Catherine II, accepted active participation in a palace life, but something has not attracted to the empress and has received a post of the Russian envoy in Italy in Turin (1783-1789). It was the honourable reference. In Turinsk university Jusupov listened to lectures, has made friends with the Italian poet, the founder of classical tragedy in Italy, count Vittorio Alferi. In salons of Turin it was possible to meet often the Italian aristocrat with the person of the ancient Roman and the snub-nosed, with high cheek-bones prince. They talked about association of Italy, about creation of aristocratic republic, about theatre and the literature.

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