Александр Николаевич Краковский (1862, Петербург - 1930, Paris)

В начале XX в. большой популярностью пользовался петербуржец Александр Николаевич Краковский (1862-1930). Получив медицинское образование в Петербурге и в Казани, он отправился в Англию, а затем в Южную Африку, где был ранен, участвуя в англо-бурской войне в составе британской армии, и дважды награжден за храбрость. Во время первой мировой войны служил на Дальнем Востоке, в Шанхае, а в (1 августа) 1916 г. приехал со своей женой-австралийкой сначала в Мельбурн, а затем в Южную Австралию. 

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Здесь его гостеприимный аделаидский дом «Tolstoi House» стал одним из центров общественной жизни этого штата. Краковские часто устраивали у себя приемы и даже были удостоены чести принимать Анну Павлову, которую приветствовала их дочь Ольга в русском костюме. 



Щедрый русский доктор был очень популярен в Аделаиде, он в равной степени заботился и об австралийских ветеранах, и о русских казаках, которые после гастрольного тура казачьего хора стремились переселиться в Австралию из Франции и заняться фермерством.

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NAA: A659, 1940/1/6670

Александр Николаевич Краковский родился 23 декабря 1862 года в Петербурге в семье Николая Константиновича Краковского

1914

KRAKOWSKY-GOODE
The marriage of Dr. Christina Goode, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Goode, and Dr. Alexander Krakowsky, was celebrated in London on October 19. Dr. and Mrs. Krakowsky will short-
ly go to Shanghai, where they will reside.

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Christina, Chrissie, ‘Johnny’, Dr Goode, Auntie Chris, Dr Krakowsky, Mummie, Madame Krakowsky, Grannie … In 1899, at the age of twenty four, Christina became only the second South Australian woman to register as a medical doctor in Adelaide. She then went to England, where she worked for fifteen years, eventually marrying a Russian doctor with whom she had one daughter. They lived and worked together in China before relocating to South Australia.

...a would-be minister who grew up in Japan and introduced Christina to Dr Alexander Krakowsky, the man she would marry. 

...And her husband? He turns out to be even more elusive. A man of smoke and mirrors, with a past we cannot pinpoint: five children from a previous marriage, no fixed abode and an assumed name, who fled west from exile in Siberia in his twenties. 

...Alexander Krakowsky was not his real name, and every marriage certificate (there were three) records different ‘facts’ about his parentage and date of birth.

In Adelaide, in 1916, The Journal reported that Dr Krakowsky was ‘a British subject, and a member of the British Medical Association… [that he] was born about 22 miles from Petrograd and received his medical training at the University in the Russian capital.’  This part may well be true, but other claims are harder to verify. (“A Russian Visitor: Interesting Impressions”, The Journal (Adelaide), 25 August 1916, 3)

In 1918, he told a local journalist in Renmark that he was related to wealthy landowners in the Ukraine and had relatives with high positions in the Russian Orthodox Church. He claimed that he had been ‘infected with revolutionary fervour’ as a student and forced to flee St. Petersburg for London to avoid being sent to Siberia. ( “Will The Bear Come Again? What A Russian Patriot Thinks: Dr Alexander Krakowsky Tells Something of the Story of his Life.” Murray Pioneer and Australian River Record (Renmark, SA) 12 July 1918, 7) 

In fact, he was sent to Siberia, probably for his revolutionary stance against the Tsar, Alexander II. One of thousands arrested in the wake of the Tsar’s assassination, he was exiled to Siberia in 1885. 

Later, he escaped to Germany with stolen identity papers. His first wife, Eugénie, and their children eventually joined him there, and the family moved to London around 1890.9 

In 1893, the couple divorced over religious differences. It is probable that Eugénie was Jewish. 

His second wife, Minnie Noar, certainly was. They were married at the Bayswater Synagogue in 1894.

In 1896, Alexander moved to South Africa with Minnie and her children from a previous marriage. Later, Alexander would return to London alone, leaving his wife and stepchildren in Cape Town.
Whether or not they divorced cannot be ascertained. 10 

While there are many discrepancies over the information Alexander provided to the authorities and the Press, we do know that he married, for a third time, on October 19, 1914, at St Michael's Church, Golders Green.

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Based on ancestry.com records

Ada Krasowsky ( 1883 Russia - )
Julia Krasowsky (1885 Russia - )
Valentin Krasowsky (1887 Russia - 1971)
Rose Krasowsky (1889 Russia- )

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Dr. Alexander Krakowsky, a well known Adelaide physician, died suddenly in Paris last Wednesday. Dr. Krakowsky had been in poor health for some time, and left with his wife and daughter for treatment in Paris about fifteen months ago. Born in Russia, Dr. Krakowsky became a naturalised British subject, and was a medical officer with the British Forces in the South African war, where he received two decorations for bravery on the field. At the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 he was sent to Shanghai by the British Government, and he married Dr. Christina Goode, of Adelaide, in London, just before leaving for the East. While at Shanghai, Dr. Krakowsky was decorated by the Government of France for services he rendered to French soldiers at that port. 

He came to South Australia in 1916, and practised at Renmark for four or five years. He then came to Adelaide, where he practised on North Terrace as a specialist for a number of years. He has left a widow, who is in Paris, and one daughter, who is at school in France.

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Dr. Alexander Krakowsky Dies Abroad (1930, June 26). Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931), p. 34., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164795458







Deb. Dance Port Augusta Ball (1938, July 9). The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954), p. 18. Retrieved May 14, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35595450

Е.В. Говор САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГ - МЕЛЬБУРН: К ИСТОРИИ РАННИХ СВЯЗЕЙ

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WEDDINGS. (1914, October 31). The Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved May 14, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59366658

Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1965), Thursday 26 June 1930, page 19