Leopold Dessandri was born in approximately 1789 in the town of Ronse. He was a farmer.
He served a a soldier in the 85th Infantry Regiment of Napoleon's Army. He fought against the Russians and was captured.
Milovidov records that as of 1814 he had no immediate family member still living.
Belousov records that he was settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt.
He is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 346 along with a note that he had been absent since 1817.
Belousov records that Leopold Dessandri came from the Netherlands. Milovidov records that he came from the town of Ronse in the Netherlands.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Dessandri family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 346).
- Belousov, S.V. "Prisoners of war of Napoleon's army in the Volga region: the arrangement, content, relationships with the local population." Bulletin of the Samara State University, No. 1 (Samara, Russia: Samara State University, 2006): 48-55.
- Milovidov, B. P. "Prisoners of War of the Napoleonic Army in the Saratov Colonies in 1813-1820: New Documents." (p. 34, #58)
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