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