Nicolas de Bobrikoff
A student of the Corps des Pages, he left in 1901, assigned with the rank of "cornette" (second lieutenant of cavalry) to the Mounted Regiment of the Imperial Guard within which he began the First World War. Lieutenant in 1905, he studied at the Academy of the General Staff with the rank of captain in 1908. Appointed colonel in 1914, he was seriously wounded in East Prussia at the head of his squadron. He then served in the General Staff and, in 1916, he was sent to France to work with the Russian military attache, Colonel Ignatiev. Returned to Russia after the February Revolution, he took part in the Civil War in the Volunteer Army and in the Armed Forces of Southern Russia. At the beginning of 1920, he was evacuated by Novorossysk, then returned to Crimea to fight in the ranks of General Wrangel's Russian Army until his evacuation from Yalta.
In emigration, he lives in France and is a member of the management of the Association of Officers of the General Staff.
Decorated with the arms of Saint-Georges in 1914, the orders of Saint-Stanislav and Saint-Anne, as well as the Legion of Honor.
He rests with his wife Ekaterina Nicolaievna, born Frolova (1885-1966).