MENTIETH, MICHAEL [SSNE 4011]

Surname

MENTIETH, MONTEITH, MENTEITH

First name

MICHAEL

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Religion

ORTHODOX

Text source

Michael Menteith was an officer in the Russian army. In 1652 he was rewarded for conversion to Orthodoxy and "suffering imprisonment with the Turks"

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 1652-01-01, as OFFICER

Departed 1652-12-31, as OFFICER

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY