Background
Pistohlkors was the son of Olga Valerianovna Paley by her first husband, general major Erich Gerhard Augustinovich von Pistohlkors (1853–1935), whom she divorced when Pistohlkors was a child.
Pistohlkors was the son of Olga Valerianovna Paley by her first husband, general major Erich Gerhard Augustinovich von Pistohlkors (1853–1935), whom she divorced when Pistohlkors was a child.
Through his mother"s second marriage to Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, he was a stepbrother of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, one of the co-conspirators in the murder of Grigori Rasputin. Pistohlkors was a minor government official under Tsar Nicholas II"s rule. The Pistohlkors family fled to Finland in 1916 when the political situation worsened.
Pistohlkors had estates in the Baltic countries.
