Lt. Gen. Nikolai Maksimovich Ivanov
Lt. Gen. Nikolai Maksimovich Ivanov was born in the Kuban region in 1859, graduated from the Pavlovsk Military School in St Petersburg in 1879 as an ensign with the 3rd Artillery Brigade and, by 1885 was in the esteemed Life Guards 1st Sharpshooter (Rifles) Regiment. By 1914, he was a light general in command of the 2nd Brigade of the 21st Infantry Division, earning a St. George for leading a successful attack across the Vistula against the Germans that September. After command of the 52nd Infantry Division, by 1917 he was given command of the 3rd Caucasian Army Corps. Cashiered after the Revolution, he served with Denikin and Wrangel in the South during the Civil War before emigrating to Yugoslavia after the collapse in 1920. Joining the Royal Yugolslav Army, he went on to command the Skopje Military District. He passed there in 1935, aged 75.