The Sumarokov-Elston family - family of Felix-senior

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Family Sumarokov-Elston

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Family Bashkiroff 

[BAL]

Hello! More news about Xenia, unfortunately sad. She died very young. Headstones: DUBLIN, Deansgrange Cemetery, St.Fintan's Section, Pt. 3, 301-418
Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives. No.378
In Loving Memory of | XENIA CROSSLEY | née BASHKIROFF | Born in St. Petersburg
on Feb. 10th 1915 | and died Jan 1st 1950 | also | ANUTA BONDARENKO | Born in
Poltava on Feb. 16th 1865 | and died on Nov. 6th 1951 | R.I.P.


Sincerely, Alexander Bachkiroff

[kamlowsky]

These are wonderful pictures. Thank you. The Count and Countess are a very handsome and beautiful couple. The baby pictures are so sweet.

The picture of Alexis Sumarokov is scary. He looks like he is a prisoner, expercially considering that year.

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Left to right: Paul Alexandrovitch Demidoff, Countess Zenaida Pavlovna Soumarokoff-Elston, Count Alexis Petrovitch v. der Pahlen, and Catherine Pavlovna Soumarokoff-Elston 1903

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Countess Zenaida Pavlovna Soumarokoff-Elston  1905

[Russian Art Lover]

Everyone here knows the story about Nikolai Yussupov, elder brother of Felix, who was killed in a duel on 5 July 1908.

I notice that he had a cousin, Nikolai, born in 1891, who died shortly before he did, on 22 June 1908. I do not know the place of death (I presume the date is the New Style, else it might even work out as the same as the death of Nikolai Yussupov!).

This Nikolai was his first cousin and a son of Count Nikolai Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston. He had an elder sister, Helen, and younger brother Mikhail (the famous tennis player). I believe the family lived in Europe (mostly Germany) because of their father's poor health.

This Nikolai seems a rather mysterious figure: he is not mentioned in Felix's memoirs (Helen and Mikhail get a passing mention). I have not seen any information on his exact date of birth on family trees, which provide such information on his siblings.

The lack of information might not mean anything, but regarding Romanov/Yussupov/Sumarokov-Elston history in general, one cannot help wondering if there is some specific reason why he does NOT seem to be mentioned anywhere.... Does anyone here have information on Count Nikolai Nikolaevich Sumarokov-Elston (1891-1908)?

[Russian Art Lover]

Found the reference:

We had no real cousins on my mother's side.  The Koutouzoff, Cantacuzène, Ribeaupierre, and Stakhovitch families were distant relatives, and though we saw little of them we were on excellent terms with each other.  It was the same with our first cousins, Helen and Michael Soumarokoff, who lived almost entirely abroad on account of their father's bad health.     [ref: Prince Felix Youssoupoff, “Lost Splendor,” p. 39.]