Biography Tolay
Toll (Toll) – a count, baron and noble family, originating, according to family legend, of Arnold, Count of Holland (died 1005), one of whose descendants, Florus ip. Tailing, he inherited the castle, near T. Leyden and was the ancestor of the genus T. In the late XVI century. Luke T. owned an estate on the island of Osel. John Christopher T. (1743 – 1817), favorite Gustav IV, was a field marshal and was first baron and then count's dignity in Sweden. Carl F. T. (see below) received baronial title in Austria and in 1829 – the count's dignity in Russia. Of his sons gr. Karl was the ambassador to Denmark, and the grandsons gr. Sergei Aleksandrovich – now St. Petersburg. Governor. Robert T. (1802), a famous archaeologist, has made a significant collection of historic documents and items in his estate Kukkers; they issued (together with Bunge and Pabst), several volumes of historical documents relating to the Baltic region ("Est-und Livlandische Brieflade"). His son, Baron Harald (b. 1848), head of Nobility archive in Revel, also known as an archaeologist and collector of historical documents. To this class belongs and naturalist Edward T. (see). Rhode counts and barons T. introduced in matriculation Estland nobility and gentry, two branches of this kind – in the matriculation conducted. book. Finland (Armorial, X, 15). VR