Vladimir Sergeevich Khitrovo, 1891-1968
Vladimir Sergeevich Khitrovo was born in 1891, and graduated from the Pazheskii korpus in 1910. He was a participant of World War I. During the Civil War in 1918 he enlisted in the White Army, serving as officer in General Lev N. Kirpichev’s Kievskaia dobrovol’cheskaia druzhina; the following year he transferred to the Svodno-gvardeiskii polk Vooruzhennykh sil iuga Rossii. Evacuating from Novorossiisk, Khitrovo became Chief of the Russian press bureau in Constantinople, and subsequently emigrated to France. Khitrovo was an active member of the alumni association of the Pazheskii korpus, and the Soiuz pazhei. He was a contributer to the journal Voennaia byl’, and authored a memoir of World War I, “Vospominaniia i materialy dlia istorii. Leib-gvardii konnaia artilleriia. Chast’ II-aia. Voina 1914-1917. Pokhod v vostochnuiu Prussiiu,” which remains unpublished.
Vladimir S. Khitrovo died on February 24, 1968, in Grasse, France.
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