Necropolis of Russian Shanghai (Некрополь русского Шанхая) record

  • ID: 205
  • Surname: Boutourlin
  • Forename and paternity: Mihail Sergeevich
  • Фамилия: Бутурлин
  • Имя и отчество: Михаил Сергеевич
  • S: m
  • Date of birth // Дата рождения: 1883-01-24
  • Date of death // Дата смерти: 1950-01-06
  • Occupation // Профессия: Board member at Russian Commercial School
  • Rank or nobility // Чин или звание: Captain
  • NRS // НРС: 101
  • Notes // Примечания: Hereditary aristocrat; participant of WWI. According to V. A. Slobodchikoff, in the 1940s, Boutourlin was a regular guest at Thais Jaspar’s Wednesday salons: “Mihail Sergeevich Boutourlin, from a family of diplomats, was a descendant of Vasily Vasilievich Boutourlin (d. 1656), a Boyar who helped Bogdan Hmelnitsky defend Ukraine from the Polish invasion in the 17th century. Mihail Sergeevich had once served as a diplomat in England. An enthusiast of the ancient history of Russia, he found evidence in the English archives that the Prince Rurik, whom he variags summoned to rule over Novgorod, had prior to that conquered London with his ‘sea news men and true war men,’ taking this army to Novgorod later. According to Boutourlin’s theory, later records transformed these ‘sea news men’ into Rurik’s brother Sineus, and the ‘true war men’ into his other brother, Truvor. These brothers’s graves were never found, he claimed, because they never existed.” (p. 246). Full bio in NRS. ERC 20617.