Cyril Leonov

Mr. Cyril Antonio Joseph Leonov (von Leonrod) is the head of the Adriatic branch of the von Leonrod family. All the information on this website and massive amounts of genealogical data outside of it is a result of a meticulous research that has been undertaken by Cyril over the course of several years.

Cyril was born in 1983 in Moscow (USSR at the time) in a cognitariat family. Cyril’s father Eugene  (or Jevgenij) – an engineer and an extremely strong chess player – is a direct descendant (14th generation), through an uninterrupted male line, of Theodor von Leonrod, a scion of an ancient Schwabian/Westfallian noble family. Cyril’s mother Marina, also an engineer, is a patrilineal descendant of an ancient boyar dynasty of Glazov, first mentioned in the chronicles in middle XV century, and a matrilineal descendant of several ducal and even royal houses (e.g. House of Piast, ruling dynasty of Poland).

After graduating from a university with an ERP systems-related diploma, Cyril worked in a variety of jobs, got an MBA degree from a business school, made a career in multinational corporations (Procter&Gamble, AC Nielsen) which took him around Europe; in particular, Cyril lived and worked in Poland and Geneva. Around 2012 Cyril quit his job to gain independence and started / invested in several businesses in Russia and Europe (notably, Estonia), some of which were successful.

Cyril resides in Montenegro. His main activities include his ongoing genealogical research, keeping the family archives, charity and raising his son and heir Igor. He is fluent in Russian, English, German, has limited proficiency of Serbian/Montenegrin/Croatian, Hungarian and did a two year course in Latin. Cyril is an ardent Catholic (baptized as Orthodox) and an active parishioner and church servant.
He is also a Brother of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem and the Order’s representative in Montenegro (maternal organization is OSLJ Slovakia). Interesting that one of Cyril’s ancestors – general Obolyaninov (XVIII century) was Commander Grand Cross of that very Order.