Article (website)  (2011)  Includes photo(s).
 
Next to 'Comtesse Elisabeth Worontsow' grows another climbing rose, not less ancient than the former. About ist origin and Name, various experts have proposed many hypotheses in the last years, but a Consensus has not yet been reached. Some believe that this is the rose 'Maréchal Niel' created by Pradel in France...Others suggest that it is the once-famous 'Alupka', whose authorship is controversial. It could be Nicholas von Gartvis, or Karl Kebach, the head gardener of the Vorontsov estate, who found it as a sport of an old variety.

Article (website)  (2011)  Includes photo(s).
 
At the end of 1837 in a series of roses of Nicholas Gartvis...there was one rose...called 'Mignonette d'Alupka' - ‘Любимица Алупки’. ....a musk rose...year of obtainment - 1838....
In an article "Inhaling rose fragrance" by Anna Abramovna Galichenko, published a few years ago...the author attempted to investigate the origin of the rose 'Alupka' and this is what she wrote:
"As for the varieties of Gartvis, let's hope that some of them still grow in a ring of old Crimean parks....One such old bush blooming in the front verandah of ...the Vorontsov Palace, all sprinkled with large yellow and pink flowers, is no more than the once-famous 'Countess Elisabeth Vorontsov'. Next to it grows another bush of climbing yellow and white roses, whose origin is not yet resolved. Employees of the Nikita Botanical Garden, ranked it as the so-called Noisette rose 'Maréchal Niel', derived in France in 1864 by the gardener Pradel and named in honour of Marshall Niel who fought at Sevastopol in the Crimean War of 1853-56.....
At the end of the XIXth century, the German Magazine "Möller's Garten-Zeitung" published an article...in which it is said that during his stay in the Crimea, a German gardener....found at the Alupka Castle belonging to Prince Vorontsov, a rose variety which had reached unprecedented proportions, "which looked a lot like the Habit, branches, prickles, foliage and Blooms of our tea rose...'Maréchal Niel'. Local gardeners told their guest that this variety is supposedly a sort which appeared more than thirty years ago in the parks of Alupka from which the head gardener Kevius sent his neighbouring comrades cuttings for grafting...of this variety called 'Alupka'. It is known that Anton Karlovich Kebach, erroneously named Kevius [Carl Anton Keebach (August 7, 1799 Sigmaringen - May 5, 1851 Livadia. botanist and gardener, who created the park of Alupka for Count Vorontsov from December 1824 to April 1851], did not work in Alupka during these years....Many gardeners in the southern copast of the early twentieth century believed that it was obtained by N. A. Gartvis in the 1830s. in particular the very authoritative rosarian A. F. Novichkov placed the date to 1838.
...What if under the guise of 'Maréchal Niel' is a hidden jewel whose cuttings were taken from the southern coast during the Crimean War?....One thing known for certain: the local climbing rose variety 'Alupka' in the second half of the XIXth century was according to the grower Savchenko " in all respects a great variety with ist high-quality snow-white highly fragrant blooms with a lemon-yellow tint..."Back in the thirties of the last [XXth] century it decorated many coastal parks, gardens of local residents, flower beds of resorts and sanatoriums...
So, the rose which is named 'Alupka' is the 'favourite of Alupka'. According to the testimony of the archives of the Nikita Garden, the year of its creation is 1838, coinciding with the opinion of A. F. Novichkov. ....
We accidentally discovered that in the ...rose garden of Sangerhausen in Germany there is a rose 'Alupka'....In the summer of 2011 we came to this garden .....Imagine our disappomtment when we saw a...small bush with buds, not like the huge climbing rose in Crimea! ....We came to the conclusion that the variety growing in Germany is not 'Alupka'. In any case, not the 'Alupka' which is described in the garden literature of the early XXth century....
After the release of our book about the rosdes of N. Gartvis, we received a letter from Mr. Erich Unmuth, director of the botanical rose garden in Baden (Austria). He reported that in France, in the rose garden L'Haÿ-les Roses, too, there is a rose 'Alupka', and the site even had a photo of it. Alas, as it turned out, it is not 'Alupka', or rather, not the rose that grows in the garden of the Vorontsov Palace.
So the question remains, are the varieties 'Alupka' and 'Maréchal Niel' identical or not?

Book  (1966)  Page(s) 8.  
 
Noisette roses require good protection for the winter in all regions except the south coast of Crimea. These include the....variety Alupka with canary yellow flowers, produced in clusters....

Book  (1948)  Page(s) 36.  
 
[Manuscript of 189?]
Because of all the varieties of R. lutea only R. Harrisonii has the ability to fruit in our area, special attention needs to be paid to the hybridization of this kind. Notes:
1. In dry summers it brings completely full and mature seeds by October 1.
2. It is pretty easy to pollinate with other types of roses.
3. Raise a crop of 5% in the second year.
a) must be pollinated by Harrisonii (mother) pollen Teas - Alupka, Beauté d'Europe. Gloire de Dijon in order to obtain more hardy tea roses, Bourbons, Louise Odier and other Noisettes: Perle d'Or, Bouquet d'Or.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 16.  
 
Alupka (tea Noisette) in Russia ? ; White = White Niel or Mme. Hoste.

Book  (1902)  Page(s) 90.  
 
Noisettes ordinaires...
2502 Alupka, blanc.