Early Life and Career
Ivan Turchaninov was born into a Don Cossack family in Russia and attended the Imperial Military School in St. Petersburg in 1851. He later served as a Colonel of Staff in the Russian Guards and fought in Hungary and in the Crimean War.
In May 1856, he married Nadezhda Lovov, the daughter of his commanding officer. Later that year, he and his wife immigrated to the United States, where he eventually settled in Chicago and worked for the Illinois Central Railroad.
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