Born in Moscow, Ernest Beaux was the son of Edouard Hyppolite Beaux[REF] (1835-1899) and Augustine Wilgemina Misfeld[REF] (1843-1906), second wife of Edouard Hyppolite Beaux (1835-1899), who was originally from Lille, France.
Edouard Francois Beaux[REF] (1862-?), Ernest Beaux's half-brother by his father's first wife, Adelaide Fiurth (1842-1879), began as a clerk with the Moscow trading house of Mure and Merilise.