1869 September 22

Born, St. Petersburg, Russia

1888

Graduated, Pavlovskoe voennoe uchilishche

1903

Author, Po Azii. Putevye ocherki Manchzhurii, Dalniago Vostoka, Kitaia, Iaponii i Indii

1910

Colonel, commanding officer, 1st Siberian Cossack regiment

1913

Commanding officer, 10th Don Cossack regiment

1914

Major General, commanding officer, 1st Don division

1917

Commanding officer, 3rd Cavalry corps

1918

Elected ataman of Don Cossacks

1918

Retired

1921

Author, Ot dvuglavogo orla k krasnomu znameni, 1894-1921

1922

Author, Vsevelikoe voisko donskoe

1923

Author, Poniat’-prostit’: roman v 4 chastiakh

1927

Author, Dusha armii: ocherki o voennoi psikhologii

1931

Author, Vypash

1937

Author, Nakanunie voiny: iz zhizni pogranichnogo garnizona

1943

Head of Cossack units within the German Army

1945

Turned over by the British Army to Soviet authorities, along with thousands of Cossacks at Lienz, Austria

1947 January 16

Executed, Moscow (?), USSR