Maj. Gen. Georgy Petrovich Tatonov
Maj. Gen. Georgy Petrovich Tatonov. Born in 1884, he graduated from the Mikhailovsky Voronezh Cadet Corps(1902) and the Nikolaev Cavalry School (1904), then served in the Russo-Japanese War as a cornet in the 1st Sunzha-Vladikavkaz regiment (Terek Cossacks). On the staff of the 13th Cavalry Division at the start of the Great War, he ended the conflict as the head of the Wild Division, made up of Caucuasian volunteers (Ossetian, Dagetani, Chechnian). Casting his lot with the Whites in the Terek and later Kuban regions during the Civil War, he rose to command the Terek-Astrakhan brigade by 1920 and later was chief of staff of the 3rd Kuban Corps under Wrangel. Exiled to Yugoslavia and then France, where he was active in ROVS, Ossetian independence organizations, and Cossack groups, he opened up a paper company and died in Paris in 1970. He is buried in the cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois.