Prince Georgy (Yuri) Alekseevich Shirinsky-Shikhmatov
Staff Captain Prince Yuri (Georgy) Alekseevich Shirinsky-Shikhmatov was born in 1890 to a noble family– son of Prince Alexei Alexandrovich Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, Chamberlain of the Court of His Imperial Majesty Tsar Alexander III. Graduating from the Nicholas Guard School, he naturally served in the Horse Guards before the war and during the war requested reassignment to the more battle-worn 20th (Finnish) Dragoons. Wounded on the Romanian front, he was in convalescence when the Revolution came and was cashiered from his unit. During the Civil War, he fought under Denikin in the south and, sent to liaise with Yudenich in the Northwest in 1919 rode with the failed push on Petrograd. Settling in exile in Paris in the 1920s, he became a taxi driver, married the widow of Boris Savinkov, and was active in White Russian groups and periodicals. When the Germans came in 1940, he was soon rounded up for not making nice and deported. He was stomped to death by kapos in Auschwitz in 1942, aged 51.