His mother was Eugenie, née Dobjansky, while his father was Alexandru Cihoski, an engineer who had fought as a cavalry officer in the Polish January Uprising of 1863 before emigrating to Romania.

He had two sisters and two brothers, one of whom, Alexandru-Eugeniu, became a brigadier general, and the other, Stanislas [ro], became a professor and rector at the Academy of Commercial Studies.

[1] In August 1916, when Romania entered World War I on the side of the Allies, Cihoski was at the headquarters of the Fifth Army Corps.

On 6 May 1950 Cihoski was arrested by the Communist authorities and sent to Sighet Prison, where he died twelve days later after being beaten during interrogation.

[2] In 1910 Cihoski married Sofia Ferhat, who was born in an Armenian family from Focșani;[4] they had a daughter, Henriette, who became a sculptor, and a son, Alexandru.

[8] After Cihoski was arrested in May 1950, his family was evicted from their house and their belongings were confiscated; in September 1950, Sofia Ferhat appealed for redress to the Interior Minister, Teohari Georgescu.