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Sergej Mikhajlovich Sukhotin (1887-1926)
Sukhotin did not serve in the Preobrazhensky Regiment as was pointed out in 1932 in a letter to the editor of the Parisian Russian magazin Illustrated Russia by the president of the Union of Preobrazhentsy, A Gulevich.
Lieutenant Sukhotin served in the Life Guards Infantry (Rifle) Regiment.
His first wife was Irina Eneri, pseudonym for Irina Goryainova-Chegodaeva (1897-1980), a pianist prodigy, who performed in concert halls since she was twelve. They had a daughter called Natasha. However, one year later Irina left her husband and moved to the west. Nikolaj Gumilev mentions her in one of his poems.
Sukhotin was never punished for his participation in the murder of Rasputin.
In 1921 Sukhotin marries Tolstoy’s granddaughter Sophia Andreevna Tolstaja (1900-1957) in Yasnaya Polyana. However, soon after the wedding Sukhotin suffers a stroke (January 1922), that leaves him paralyzed. He divorces from his wife. Their daughter is born after the divorce. He now lives in his wife’s mother’s apartment. His stepmother and an aunt feel pity for him and decide to write to Yusupov in Paris, to ask for help. Yusupov answers: send him here!
With the help of a Czech diplomat Sukhotin leaves for Paris (March 13th, 1925). In Warsaw the diplomat leaves the train for a moment, to discover, when he returns into the wagon, that Sukhotin is gone. The train does not wait and leaves, together with the Czech diplomat. Sukhotin has gone walking into the city. He falls, people think he is drunk, but in the end he is taken to a hospital. After some time he is somewhat better, and leaves for Paris to recover. Shortly after arrival in Paris he dies (1926).
In 1925 Sophia married a second time, famous poet Sergej Yesenin. Her third husband became in 1948 Alexander Timrot.
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