Andreï Riasanoff

With the beginning of the First World War in 1914, he left the faculty of history and philology of St. Petersburg University where he was a third-year student. He entered the Tver cavalry school and joined the 20th Finnish dragoon regiment. Promoted to Colonel, he became chief of staff to General Denikin during the Civil War. After leaving the Crimea with the Wrangel volunteer army in the fall of 1920, together with his wife Anna, he found himself in the Gallipoli camp where they had a daughter, Tatiana. In October 1921, the family moved to Bulgaria with the remnants of the White army. They have a second child (a son Misha). He works in a coal mine. Later, the family moved to France — first to Lorraine, where he worked in the exploitation of iron ores, and then in 1925 to Paris. In 1929, Misha died of meningitis caused by trauma. From 1925 to 1962, A. B. worked as a taxi driver. Andrei Borisovich was a good cartoonist.