Nikolay Nikolaevich Lishin
Senior Lieutenant Nikolay Nikolaevich Lishin was born in 1893 to a petit noble family, the so of a retired Army colonel. Entering the Naval Corps as a cadet in 1912 at age 19, he was soon in service as a junior officer with the Balic Fleet during the Great War, first on the cruiser Gromoboi, then on the destroyer Finn. Arrested during the Revolution in 1917, he managed to escape Petrograd and fled to the Caspian Sea region where he soon fell in with a group of White Russian naval personnel operating the armed steamers Alla Verdy and President Kruger on the inland sea under British military control. Once the Caspian Flotilla was disbanded by the British, he served as a messenger between Admiral Kolchak and the governments of Generals Denikin and Wrangel. Stuck in Siberia in 1920 with the collapse there, he lived among emigres in Shanghai then to Paris, Belgrade and finally, Riga, he settled in Latvia and was very active in White causes there, organizing combat units for continued operations in Bolshevik Russia before becoming the editor of a Russian newspaper in Riga and writing a book on the Caspian campaign in 1938. When the Soviets unlawfully occupied Latvia in 1940, he was soon arrested and deported to Moscow, where he was shot in the back of the head following a military tribunal on 24 June 1941.