MENZIES, JOHN LEWIS [SSNE 4014]
- Surname
- MENZIES
- First name
- JOHN LEWIS
- Title/rank
- LT. COLONEL
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Region
- BALGOWNIE, ABERDEEN
- Social status
- OFFICER
- Religion
- ORTHODOX
Text source
John Lewis Menzies was the son of Thomas Menzies. He embraced orthodoxy and served in the Russian army from 1654 to 1691 under David W. Graham and Patrick Gordon, rose to lieutenant colonel and left issue.D. Fedosov, The Caledonian Connection (Aberdeen, 1996); Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.93.
Service record
- RUSSIA, RUSSIAN ARMY
- Arrived 1654-01-01, as LT. COLONEL
- Departed 1691-12-31, as LT. COLONEL
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY