Leslie (Russian nobility)
The Leslie family is the name of Russian noble family of Scottish origin.
History
Descendants of Alexander Leslie of Auchintoul, who was a Scottish soldier in Swedish and General in Russian service. In 1654 he wrested Smolensk from the Poles and became the Tsar's governor/voivode there. Auchintoul fought for the Montrosians in the English Civil War. He was the son of William Leslie, third laird of Crichie, a branch of the Balquhain Leslies. He was commander of Russian forces during the Siege of Smolensk (1654), one of the first great events of the Russo-Polish War (1654–67).Descendants
- Alexander Leslie of Auchintoul, General and voivode of Smolensk, owner of manor had three sons, Colonel Alexander, Yakov-John and Colonel Fedor-Theodore, commander of.
- * John Leslie of Balquhain, son of General Alexander Leslie, was a Scottish cavalry colonel in Russian service killed in the storming of Igolwitz castle on 30 August 1655, he married a daughter of Colonel Crawford in Muscovy, though there are at least three Crawfords with that rank in the Russian service, so it's not entirely clear who is meant.
- Leslie, Dmitri Egorovich, — major general, chief of.
- , - commander of Smolensk Zemskoe Narodnoe Opolcheniye in 1812.
- Leslie, Yuri Federovich, — major general, under command of Generalfeldmarschall Peter Lacy in Siege of Danzig (1734).