Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameCapt. Yuri (Spyridon) Tolstoy, 10C3R
Birth24 Apr 1896, Ste Geneviève-des-Bois, France
Death20 Nov 1962, Paris, France
Note 1Passed out of Corps of Pages and joined the Empress's Uhlan Guards Regiment as Ensign July 1915; Sub-Lieut. December 1915; Lieut. December 1916; Lieut. Captain September 1917.
Note 2At the 1917 Revolution he joined the White Army and on the termination of the Civil War he settled in Paris.
Note 3In 1939, on the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted in the French Army, was taken prisoner by the Germans but liberated after the Franco-German Armistice because of ill-health.
Note 4Translated into French Merezhkovsky's ‘Life of Joan of Arc’ and ‘From Jesus to Us’, Zinaida's Gippius's ‘The Pearl Cane’ and ‘Visit to Yasnaya Polyana’ and in 1962 V. Lazarev's ‘Ikons of Ancient Russia’ (1961).
Flags***, Callimachi, Cantacuzene, Caradja, Ghika, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato
FatherCount Spyridon (Lev) Tolstoy (1858-1922)
MotherPrincess Sophia (Leonid) Cantacuzene (1870-1961)