General Georgy Nikolaevich Rastorguev Kuban plastun Browning 1900
Brig. Gen. Georgy Nikolaevich Rastorguev. Born in the Kuban in 1860, he entered service with the Kuban Cossacks at age 18, was selected for officer school and graduated from the Odessa Yunkers academy in 1883, and joined the 76th Kuban Infantry Regiment immediately after as a subaltern. By 1909, he was the colonel commanding the 1st Kuban Plastun Battalion (seen in 1912 above on the right) which he would take into battle in the Great War. Later commanding the 18th Turkestan Rifle Regiment and 6th Caucasian Rifle Division, he earned the St. George and left the Army after the Revolution. Headed to the Caucus, he became head of the Terek Plastun Brigade with Whites in 1919 then head of he reserves of the Kuban Cossacks (seen above on the left). Exiled first to Yugoslavia and then to France following the collapse in 1920, he died in Nice in 1943 while the city was under German occupation.