Nikolay Nikolaevich Baratov
Gen. Nikolay Nikolaevich Baratov. Born 1865, Baratov was a Terek Cossack officer who earned his place as a Sotnik (ensign) in 1886 after graduation from the Konstantinovskoe Artillery School and the Saint Petersburg Military Engineering-Technical University. By 1901 he was the colonel of the 1st Sunzhen-Vladikavkaz Cossack Regiment after graduation from the Nikolaev General Staff Academy. Baratov had skill in command of his horsemen, earning a Gold Sword of the Order of St. Anne during the Russo-Japanese War while leading a brigade-sized unit. Immediatly after, he commanded the Consolidated Cavalry Corps as a major general. During the Great War, he commanded the 1st Caucasus Cossack Corps on the Caucasus Front and was head of the push into Persia as a full General of Cavalry. Insulated against the disentigration of the old Imperial Army in 1917 due to their isoaltion in their fight against the Turks, Baratov remained in the field allied with the French and British then cast his lot with the Whites in the Caucus. Losing a leg in a Red bombing in Tiflis in 1919. Following the defeat in 1920, he lived in exile in France and was involved in ROVS. Passing in 1932 at age 67 and is buried at the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois in Paris.