Sergei Sergeevich Tolstov, 1881 - 1950

Colonel S. S. Tolstov was born on 13 February 1881. He was wounded in the Russo-Japanese War and several times in the course of the First World War, where he began as a captain and rose to command the 5th Siberian Rifles (promoted to the rank of colonel in 1916).

In 1917, as commander of the 6th Siberian Reserve Brigade, he was simultaneously the commander of the Krasnoiarsk garrison and later the entire military region. Arrested during the anti-Bolshevik uprising in Irkutsk in December 1917, he escaped from jail to Vladivostok, where he worked in various capacities. In June 1918, he was invited by the anti-Bolshevik government in Vladivostok to be commander of the Primor'e Military District. In September 1918, he resigned his command for political reasons and left for Shanghai (1919). In 1923 he and his wife, Lidiia Vladislavovna, moved to San Francisco, where he was involved in fundraising activity to help Russian war invalids abroad, and where he died of a heart attack on 9 November 1950.

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