Count Alexis Pavlovitch

In the short story The Arcadian Deer, Count Alexis Pavlovitch is a restaurateur and proprietor of the Samovar Restaurant in Paris. He prided himself on knowing everything that went on in the artistic world. Poirot consulted him on the whereabouts of the ballerina Katrina Samoushenka who had left London. Count Alexis told him that she dancing career had ended suddenly when contracted tuberculosis. She had gone to Vagray les Alpes in Switzerland. Count Alexis also told Poirot that Madame Samoushenka had a maid who came from Pisa, Italy.