The Sumarokov-Elston family - family of Felix-senior

[Nesterov]

I am bumping up this thread with a question - does anyone know how to make contact with Kate Anstey? I have some information about her grandfather, but she does not seem to post here anymore and I do not seem to be able to send her a private message...

You asked recently about the Soumarokoff-Elston family.
In reply...I am the daughter of Sophie Soumarokoff-Elston, grand-daughter of Michael Soumarokoff-Elston and Natasha Bellik. I would be grateful if you could tell me your interest in our family>
Kate Anstey

[Van Heyden]

Hello

I don't know if the following lines are of any interest, but for the people interested in the life of Zenaide Bashkirov; daughter of Count Pavel Sumarokov-Elston, it could be. THis a copy-paste of my aunt's email sent almost two years ago:


"My one regret is not having maximised on the opportunity I had of knowing her better.  I was in my early twenties at the time with an irregular lifestyle as antique dealers.
For four years.in the early 1960s,  we rented a flat on the top floor of her large Victorian house in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where she lived with her fat, pink skinned and red haired husband who drank too much and was often spied from above spread-eagle sobering on their lawn beneath our windows.  He was Irish and had been the first minister for health in Ireland...  I learnt years later that they had one daughter who was not normal and was kept in a mental home, never coming out to visit them.  When Zenaide escaped Russia she eventually settled in Ireland.  She had a brother who also settled in Ireland.  The only information I have about him is the scandal he caused at the time when he 'stole' and married the fiancee of a famous Irish comedian who for many years appeared on his own BBC television show.   
 
She was quite small, her intelligent shiny black eyes, always alert,  reminded me of a monkey's.  Her hair was died a dark red colour and cut very short.  She was always dressed in black clutching a shawl round her shoulders and passionate about History.  Her whole demeanour was vibrant and I was fascinated by her.  Their library was a large lofty room with wonderful floor to ceiling bookcases on each wall.  She seemed forever in there, smoking heavily, surrounded with papers covered with her perpetual writings.  I felt quite close to her and she friendly towards me.  Once she gave me her book 'The Hammer and the scycle' which she had written and published about her personal traumatic life first hiding in Moscow (I think) describing the horror of starvation and her acute observations of the sordid life around her until a decision was taken to escape to the country and out of Russia.  She was young then, perhaps in her teens,  I don't remember much about the book, only that it was full of drama like when she described that it was her uncle who had killed Rasputin.  I often think of getting hold of it for it is for sale on the internet.  Perhaps I will before long for the wish to read her again and jolt my memory quite haunts me.
 
Before retiring to England her husband had collected good paintings.  In those days, they were a'plenty.  Our shop was always full of beautiful watercolours (to which I am particularly drawn) and no-one was paying much attention to them.   How things have changed since then.... Anyway, the young couple who rented our flat before us had accidentally set fire to it and the smoke and heat had damaged most of his precious collection.  He tried to 'restore' them himself...  When we left for our own house (this one) she wanted to give us some.  We still have two but we sold one.  I remember with regret being stunned when she offered us a badly damaged early Italian painting.  All we could see clearly was the most exquisite blue sky.  I was referring to its stunning beauty and she told me it was attributed to Leonard de Vinci.  I was so shocked I persuaded she should keep it and not part with it, however badly damaged was the rest..  What a fool I was... "

[Nesterov]

Thank you, Van Heyden, for this post - I for one am fascinated by anything to do with this most interesting family!

[BAL]

Hello from Russia!
I do not know unfortunately the English language. If that is not so, sorry
I am the grandson of Baсhkiroff Alexei Alexandrovich. Zinaida Bachkiroff I have my aunt. I was very happy when I found your forum. News I am very pleased. She had another younger sister, Xenia. I know that she married Mr. Crosley. In the archives, I was given a criminal case of my grandfather, I completely rewrote it. Read it then, this whole affair.
Aleksei Bachkiroff was born Dec. 18, 1876 in the old style. He was shot September 14, 1937 in the city of Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) at the site with his brother Ivan. Bugrovskom buried at a cemetery in a mass grave. I am from the criminal case it is known that Zinaida and Ksenia moved to Ireland in 1922 with the governess Anna Karlovna Onil. Letters and photographs with them was seized during the arrest on Aug. 6, 1937. Was the same picture which is placed on your forum. She did not survive. But with her grandfather's picture was taken. That with your permission I will publish it. If anyone that knows about Zinaida and Ksenia Bachkiroff please tell me. abashkirov08@rambler.ru

[kamlowsky]

Hello from Russia!
I do not know unfortunately the English language. If that is not so, sorry
I am the grandson of Baсhkiroff Alexei Alexandrovich. Zinaida Bachkiroff I have my aunt. I was very happy when I found your forum. News I am very pleased. She had another younger sister, Xenia. I know that she married Mr. Crosley. In the archives, I was given a criminal case of my grandfather, I completely rewrote it. Read it then, this whole affair.
Aleksei Bachkiroff was born Dec. 18, 1876 in the old style. He was shot September 14, 1937 in the city of Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) at the site with his brother Ivan. Bugrovskom buried at a cemetery in a mass grave. I am from the criminal case it is known that Zinaida and Ksenia moved to Ireland in 1922 with the governess Anna Karlovna Onil. Letters and photographs with them was seized during the arrest on Aug. 6, 1937. Was the same picture which is placed on your forum. She did not survive. But with her grandfather's picture was taken. That with your permission I will publish it. If anyone that knows about Zinaida and Ksenia Bachkiroff please tell me. abashkirov08@rambler.ru

Hello BAL. Thank you for your fine post in English. You did very well.. Now that the archives are open, it is good that you were able to read
about your grandfather. I am so sorry he was executed.  When you said, "She did not survive" who are you talking about?  I would love for you to publish the picture.

[BAL]

Hello from Russia!
I do not know unfortunately the English language. If that is not so, sorry
I am the grandson of Baсhkiroff Alexei Alexandrovich. Zinaida Bachkiroff I have my aunt. I was very happy when I found your forum. News I am very pleased. She had another younger sister, Xenia. I know that she married Mr. Crosley. In the archives, I was given a criminal case of my grandfather, I completely rewrote it. Read it then, this whole affair.
Aleksei Bachkiroff was born Dec. 18, 1876 in the old style. He was shot September 14, 1937 in the city of Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) at the site with his brother Ivan. Bugrovskom buried at a cemetery in a mass grave. I am from the criminal case it is known that Zinaida and Ksenia moved to Ireland in 1922 with the governess Anna Karlovna Onil. Letters and photographs with them was seized during the arrest on Aug. 6, 1937. Was the same picture which is placed on your forum. She did not survive. But with her grandfather's picture was taken. That with your permission I will publish it. If anyone that knows about Zinaida and Ksenia Bachkiroff please tell me. abashkirov08@rambler.ru

Hello BAL. Thank you for your fine post in English. You did very well.. Now that the archives are open, it is good that you were able to read
about your grandfather. I am so sorry he was executed.  When you said, "She did not survive" who are you talking about?  I would love for you to publish the picture.

Hello! But I am having difficulty on placement of photos. This is due to ignorance of the English language. I ask for help from the administrator.
Sincerely BAL.

[BAL]

Bachkiroff Alexei Alexandrovich, born December 18, 1876 in Voronezh. The first marriage in 1906 with Countess Zinaida Pavlovna Sumarokovo-Elston (June 2, 1888 - June 7, 1954, in England, Kent.)
Second marriage in 1921 with Maria Ivanovnovnoy Yakimova (January 14, 1899 -
 September 9, 1983, buried in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Lyskovsky p. d. Kurbatiha.)
  Bachkiroff Alexey graduated from the Mikhailovsky Artillery School 1898 .- 1901. Service in Tsarskoe Selo, Lieutenant Guard 1-rifle his
Majesty's battalion.
   Participant of Russian-Japanese War 1904-1905., Lieutenant, wounded at
Mugdenskom battle. Awarded the Order of St.. Anna 3 degrees with a sword and a bow, St. Stanislaus 3 degrees with a sword and a bow, St. Anna 4 degrees with an inscription for bravery.
Following the resignation of 1907. - Was a tax, the controller Ministry of the Imperial Court, General Accounting Office, the Warsaw office.
1912 .- collegiate assessor, at the Directorate of Imperial Theatres, accountant
   1913. - Court counselor, an accountant, the court granted the rank of
gentleman of the bedchamber.
   1914 .- collegiate advisor. enlisted in the army with the rank of captain.
   German captive - October 1914., November 1917. (Beskov city, town Kiistrin).
   1919. - City Lyskovo, the Red Army, 1 st Regiment of Nizhny Novgorod Terek, Assistant
company commander.
    1920. - The battalion commander Vohra.
1921 .- Chief of standing water department of the police forces Cheka.
   With 1922g.-1937. - An unemployed clerk in Rabotninskom LPH, individual peasant in with. Kurbatiha Nizhny Novgorod Province.
   1933. month of January the first arrest charge of anti-Soviet
activity, 2,5 months from indictment for lack of evidence.
   06.08.1937g .- second arrest charged with resisting collective-farm system.
   14.09.1937g. - On a sentence of three special NKVD sentenced to capital punishment, execution. Buried at the cemetery Bugrovskom Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod).

[BAL]

Bachkiroff Alexei Alexandrovic (Башкиров Алексей Александрович)

[BAL]

Backiroff A.
Portrait from the book "Chronicle of the Russian-Japanese War, 1904-1905."

[BAL]

Gentlemen! Greetings to you from Russia!
If anyone is interested, I publish below some information about their relatives.
And about Demidovas too. Sorry for my English.
                                                                                     Family:
              Aleksandr Pavlovich Demidov [Demidov]
             Alexander A. Abaza (Demidov Sumarokov-Elston) [Abaza] p. October 1, 1853 the mind. November 4
                1894
Children: Pavel Demidov [Demidov] p. December 3, 1869 the mind. 1935
             Sofia Alexandrovna Demidov (Bashkirov) [Demidov] p. December 3, 1869 the mind. 5 sentyabr1906
             Maria Demidova (Zabotkin) [Demidov] p. December 2, 1870
             Alexander Demidov [Demidov] p. 1872 mind. 1872
             Elena A. Demidov (Katkov) [Demidov] p. July 3, 1874

                                                                                 Family:
              Paul Feliksovich Sumarokov-Elston graph R.6 July 1855
            Alexander A. Abaza (Demidov Sumarokov-Elston), Countess of mind. January 17, 1938
Children: Catherine P. Sumarokov-Elston (von der Palen) Countess
             Zinaida Pavlovna Sumarokov-Elston (Baсhkiroff) Countess, p. June 2, 1886 the mind. June 7, 1954, Tunbridge
               Wells, Kent, UK

                                                                                 Family:
A marriage
             Alexander A. Bachkiroff  p. October 25, 1872. mind. April 20, 1950. Paris, France, Captain 2
             rank, an official at-Large of the Moscow governor general.
             Sofia Alexandrovna Demidov (Bachkiroff) [Demidov] p. December 3, 1869 the mind. 5 sentyabr1906 childbirth.
Children: Sophia A. Bachkiroff (Novikova) p. September 5, 1906,  April 6, 1977, France, Paris,
             She was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois.
2 Marriage
             Maria S. Tolstoy (Bachkiroff) Countess of mind. June 21, 1932 France, the estate of Haras des Monceaux,
               Calvados, France
Children: Sergey Bachkiroff
                Elizabeth A. Bachkiroff

                                                                                  Family:
A marriage
             Alexei A. Bachkiroff  p. 18 December 1876. mind. 14 September 1937. Gorky. , Lieutenant - Captain
             the first battalion of the Guards.
            Zinaida Pavlovna Sumarokov-Elston (Bachkiroff) Countess, p. June 2, 1886 the mind. June 7, 1954, Tunbridge
             Wells, Kent, UK
Children: Zinaida A. Bachkiroff (Burke) p. 1908 mind. October 14, 1996, Ireland. g.Dublin
              Xenia A. Bachkiroff  (Krosley)

Sincerely, Alexander.

[BAL]

Gentlemen! Greetings to you from Russia!
If anyone is interested, I publish below some information about their relatives.
This is a graph Sumarokov-Elston,, Count Tolstoy, Demidov, Bachkiroff. Sorry for my English.
                                                                                     Family:
              Aleksandr Pavlovich Demidov [Demidov]
             Alexander A. Abaza (Demidov Sumarokov-Elston) [Abaza] p. October 1, 1853 the mind. November 4
                1894
Children: Pavel Demidov [Demidov] p. December 3, 1869 the mind. 1935
             Sofia Alexandrovna Demidov (Bashkirov) [Demidov] p. December 3, 1869 the mind. 5 sentyabr1906
             Maria Demidova (Zabotkin) [Demidov] p. December 2, 1870
             Alexander Demidov [Demidov] p. 1872 mind. 1872
             Elena A. Demidov (Katkov) [Demidov] p. July 3, 1874

                                                                                 Family:
              Paul Feliksovich Sumarokov-Elston graph R.6 July 1855
            Alexander A. Abaza (Demidov Sumarokov-Elston), Countess of mind. January 17, 1938
Children: Catherine P. Sumarokov-Elston (von der Palen) Countess
             Zinaida Pavlovna Sumarokov-Elston (Baсhkiroff) Countess, p. June 2, 1886 the mind. June 7, 1954, Tunbridge
               Wells, Kent, UK

                                                                                 Family:
A marriage
             Alexander A. Bachkiroff  p. October 25, 1872. mind. April 20, 1950. Paris, France, Captain 2
             rank, an official at-Large of the Moscow governor general.
             Sofia Alexandrovna Demidov (Bachkiroff) [Demidov] p. December 3, 1869 the mind. 5 sentyabr1906 childbirth.
Children: Sophia A. Bachkiroff (Novikova) p. September 5, 1906,  April 6, 1977, France, Paris,
             She was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois.
2 Marriage
             Maria S. Tolstoy (Bachkiroff) Countess of mind. June 21, 1932 France, the estate of Haras des Monceaux,
               Calvados, France
Children: Sergey Bachkiroff
                Elizabeth A. Bachkiroff

                                                                                  Family:
A marriage
             Alexei A. Bachkiroff  p. 18 December 1876. mind. 14 September 1937. Gorky. , Lieutenant - Captain
             the first battalion of the Guards.
            Zinaida Pavlovna Sumarokov-Elston (Bachkiroff) Countess, p. June 2, 1886 the mind. June 7, 1954, Tunbridge
             Wells, Kent, UK
Children: Zinaida A. Bachkiroff (Burke) p. 1908 mind. October 14, 1996, Ireland. g.Dublin
              Xenia A. Bachkiroff  (Krosley)

Sincerely, Alexander.

[kamlowsky]

"A marriage
             Alexei A. Bachkiroff  p. 18 December 1876. mind. 14 September 1937. Gorky. , Lieutenant - Captain
             the first battalion of the Guards.
            Zinaida Pavlovna Sumarokov-Elston (Bachkiroff) Countess, p. June 2, 1886 the mind. June 7, 1954, Tunbridge
             Wells, Kent, UK
Children: Zinaida A. Bachkiroff (Burke) p. 1908 mind. October 14, 1996, Ireland. g.Dublin
              Xenia A. Bachkiroff  (Krosley)
If anyone that knows about Zinaida and Ksenia Bachkiroff please tell me. abashkirov08@rambler.ru"


Hello BAL,

I have put some comments together here for you. They are only about Zinaida Bashkiroff Burke. There is no information about Ksenia.  I hope you can read it or have someone translate it for you.
   
This talks about what is written on her gravestone in Ireland.   

Quote from: nedzere on September 19, 2009, 04:07:37 AM

On her gravestone it states that her father was "Captain Alexis Alexandrovitch Bashkiroff" of the 1st Rifle Regiment of the Imperial Guards of Russia, who died at the hand of the communist regime of Russia in 1936.

She wrote a book 
Zenaida Burke wrote memoirs in the 1960s..."Sickle and Harvest" (Routledge & Kegan Paul?).I read them long ago and her love for her father and his mother (with whom she and her younger sister remained after her mothers remarriage & flight from Russia to Berlin) is v evident. One of the saddest stories is of her grandmother (herself a Princes daughter) watching the Soviets selling the livestock from her estate.
Finally the girls were able to leave Russia via Berlin to go to Ireland to be their old governess who had been earlier repatriated.
They heard from their father till the early 1930s when he disappeared (tragically no doubt into the Gulag).
When did Mrs Burke die?
The headstone says she died on 14th October 1996.

I hope this helps you. It is all so sad. I am sorry.

[ashdean]

I also remember how when reading Mrs Burke's book the deep love for her father and his mother came through....and the harrowing story of her grandmother standing at the window all day watching the auction..

[BAL]

Thank you! Y Zenaida Bashkirova: Grandfather - Baсhkiroff, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich 1846-1890, chairman of the Odessa Regional Court, a state councilor.
Grandmother - Bachkiroff Maria, nee Princess Chegodaeva 1851 - 1924

[BAL]

Lord, all good health! This scans from the book Zenaida Bashkiroff "Nights Are Longest Thera"
Sincerely, A. Bashkirov