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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Sophia Sergeyevna Toumanova
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Sophia Sergeyevna Toumanova

died 1950
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BiographyNurse in Russia starting in 1914, and worked on the front lines. Escaped Russia and immigrated to American and ended up in Hancock, NH running a turkey farm with husband Irakly, former member of Czars's Imperial Guard.

"Exiled Prince of Persia, Long in Flight from Soviets, Finds Haven on Turkey Farm." The Mercury Newspaper, Pottstown, Pennsylvania 04 Jan 1934. Retrieved 7 October 2019 from https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15247552/toumanoff_january_41934_the/.

Also blog written by grandson, PeterToumanoff: http://www.history.toumanoff.com/about/
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Last Updated8/7/24
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