LIVINGSTONE, ALEXANDER [SSNE 3995]

Surname
LIVINGSTONE, LIVINGSTON, LEVISTON
First name
ALEXANDER
Title/rank
CAPTAIN
Nationality
SCOT
Social status
OFFICER
Religion
CATHOLIC

Text source

In 1666 Alexander Liningston (f.1640-1696) was captain in the Pereyaslav infantry regiment. In 1668 he was gravely wounded by mutineers in the Ukraine. In the 1680s he was a colonel, served in Kiev under Patrick Gordon. In 1684 he signed a petition to open the first Catholic church in Russia. He took part in the campaigns against the Crimea and Azov where he was killed by a Turkish bullet.

D. Fedosov, The Caledonian Connection (Aberdeen, 1996), p.71; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.103.

Service record

RUSSIA, PEREYASLAV INFANTRY
Arrived 1666-01-01, as CAPTAIN
Departed 1696-12-31, as CAPTAIN
Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY