Complex sentence: The house was purchased in 1947 by Basil Peter Toutorsky, a native of Novocherkassk, Russia, and a hereditary nobleman who had studied law at the nobles-only Imperial University of Moscow and music at the Moscow Conservatory of Music.
Split into simpler sentences: The house was purchased in 1947 by Basil Peter Toutorsky, a native of Novocherkassk, Russia, and a hereditary nobleman. He studied law at the nobles-only Imperial University of Moscow and music at the Moscow Conservatory of Music.