Vladimir Vladimirovich Marushevsky
Lt. Gen. Vladimir Vladimirovich Marushevsky. Born to the noble family in St. Petersburg in 1874, he graduated from the Nikolaev Engineering School in 1896 and served in a number of sapper battalions until fighting against Japan as a company commander in the 145th Novocherkassk Infantry Regiment. A colonel by 1914, he started the Great War as the Chief of Staff of the 2nd Finnish Rifle Brigade and earned a St. George in 1915. Commander of the 3rd Special Infantry Brigade sent to France in 1916, he returned to Russia in 1917 to bring the lessons learned on the Western Front to the Eastern Front. Famously installed as the last Stavka Chief of the General Staff in September 1917 in the wake of the Kornilov Revolt, he was arrested by the Reds in November and imprisoned in Kresty prison briefly then released. Fleeing to exile in Sweden, he showed up in Arkhangelsk in November 1918 and was installed as the commander of the Northern White Army, a British-French backed force that never grew stronger than 20,000 men. He warned an Order of the Bath for this from London. Turning command of the foundering force over to EK Miller the next summer, he moved to France and Yugoslavia, serving for a period at the French consulate in Zagreb as military attaché in the 1930s. He passed in Zagreb in 1951.