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FORMER RUSSIAN OFFICER SERVED THE LATE TSAR (Received January 15, 9.25 p.m.) PERTH. Jan. 15 Among the passengers by the Narkunda which arrived at Fremantle from London to-day, were the Count and Countess of Wieloposky. They are going to New Zealand and Honolulu in the course of a world tour. The Count is a retired Colonel of Hussars, and was formerly in the Guards of the Imperial Russian Army. He was aide-de-camp to the late Tsar Nicholas 11. He fled from the Crimea in 1919 in the British destroyer Pirate in consequence of the Bolshevik revolution. The Count lost his Russian fortune, but retains his Polish estate. The Countess is an American and the Count is her second husband.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22318, 16 January 1936, Page 9
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122VISIT TO DOMINION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22318, 16 January 1936, Page 9
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