OCP News Service – 23/11/15 – Harry Blanton Binkow – Historian – Imperial Russia

The Clandeboye estate Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, reveals far more than explained here. The Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov (1904 – 1987) survived here as well. He lived in Northern Ireland, near Collon, a community of Russian emigres there supported him along with Princess Marina of Kent, Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, The Tsarina’s Secretary, Count Peter Apraxine and his wife Dr. Martha Apraxine, Prince Alexander Lieven, and many others. He lived under the name Nikolai Chebotarev and worked for Sir Percy Loraine, British High Commissioner of Egypt and the Sudan (also ambassador to Mussolini’s Italy) who signed his Nansen Passport. The Tsarevich tutored Lady Dufferins’ son, Sheridan in French.*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandeboye_Estate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Percy_Loraine,_12th_Baronet.

Chebotarev was employed by the United Nations in New York for a number of years starting in 1946. A telegram sent from New York (Western Union), was delivered by a local church for him to Anastasia at Unterlegenhardt Germany reveals, “Anastasia! It is your brother, Alexei! I am trying to get in touch with you”.

* Book Photographs courtesy of William Lloyd Lavery.

(Many photographs may include Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph W. Boyle who assisted the niece of Queen Marie of Romania, Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Marie Nikolaevna, out of Odessa).  in cooperation with Captain George Alexander Hill (note photographs of his daughter, Alix Hill, her mother was Olga von Berg. Her father was the cousin of the british agents George Hil and Freddie Hill, and of Dame Elizabeth Hill. Her mother , Olga, was in love with Paul Stepanov, one of Rasputin’s murderers, and was present in Yusupov’s house on the night of the murder.  Her grandfathers were both friends of Tsar Nicholas II.  Alix was a close friend to Alexei and a major source of information for a publication in the United Kingdom, 1998. She was a relative of Prince Alexander Lieven and worked with him in the 1940’s.) a Russian-speaking member of the British secret service, carried out clandestine operations against German and Bolshevik forces in Bessarabia and southwestern Russia. Just one of their many exploits together had been secreting the Romanian crown jewels and Romanian treasury out of the Kremlin and back into Romania. In March–April 1918, he rescued some 50 high-ranking Romanians held in Odessa by revolutionaries.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_W._Boyle

This four part series shows Clandeboye as it is today. The 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (1938-1988), died due to complications from AIDS. He is survived by his wife and fourth cousin, Serena Belinda (Lindy) Rosemary Guinness, and a sister according to record.

• Lady Perdita Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (b. 17 July 1934)

The history tells the story. Indeed a frequent social place of the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich and his friends that included Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava (daughter of The Honourable Arthur Ernest Guinness, second son of the 1st Earl of Iveagh).

http://www.clandeboye.co.uk/

Sheridan Frederick Terence Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (9 July 1938 – 29 May 1988), was a British patron of the arts. Less formally he was usually called Sheridan Dufferin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheridan_Hamilton-Temple Blackwood,_5th_Marquess_of_Dufferin_and_Ava