Autograph. Post-gram from General Baron Wrangel sent to the white emigrant Staff Captain of the Kornilov Shock ...

Autograph. Post-gram from General Baron Wrangel sent to the white emigrant Staff Captain of the Kornilov Shock regiment Krivosheev from the yacht "Lucullus" on June 27, 1921.
Turkey. Yacht "Lucullus", 1921 Paper, ink, size 16.8 x 21.6 cm. Good preservation: worn at the creases; tears.

[Alexander Krivosheev was born in 1894.From the Cossacks of the all-great don Army.In 1916, he graduated from the ensign school, joining the ranks of wartime officers on the fronts of the First world war. After October 1917, he joined the ranks of those who continued to fight for Russia, recognizing neither the demagogic "peace without annexations and indemnities" with its enemies, nor the world international of proletarians of all countries. Ensign Kornilov shock regiment. Participant of the 1st Kuban campaign. The author of the hymn of the Kornilov regiment. In VSYUR and the Russian Army in the 1st Kornilov regiment until the evacuation of the Crimea. On December 18, 1920 in the 1st company of the Kornilov regiment in Gallipoli. The staff-captain.

In exile, the representative of the monarchical Newspapers in Paris, after 1945, the representative of the "Hour" and "Our Country" in France.

Alexander porfiryevich Krivosheev was a typical figure in the White movement. Since December 1917, Lieutenant Krivosheev was in the ranks of the Volunteer army. I have passed the way "from the first days of Novocherkassk to the last days of Crimea", as Marina Tsvetaeva said about the path in the white movement of Sergey Efron. And then there were evacuations, a year of sitting in Gallipoli... His fate is as dramatic as the fate of tens of thousands of other Russian officers. He fought for Russia, and spent the rest of his life in exile, buried near Paris next to his comrades in the Kornilov section of the Russian cemetery of Saint-Genevieve-de-Bois.

Colchis (from 4.06.1913 - "Lucullus") - a ship of the Russian and white fleet.

Built in England in 1866 as a steam schooner. On March 31, 1890, it was acquired by the Maritime Department and incorporated into the Russian black sea fleet. On 1 February 1892, she was reclassified as a steamship, on 27 September 1907 as a yacht, and in 1914 as a messenger ship. As the yacht of the Russian Ambassador, it was used as a hospital in Constantinople. On may 1, 1918, it was captured in Sevastopol by German troops, in November 1918 by the Volunteer army, and in December 1918 by the Entente. From April 1919, she was again part of the white fleet and was stored in the port. On November 14, 1920, as part of the Russian squadron, it was taken to Turkey, where Baron Wrangel lived on it. Died on 15.10.1921 on the roadstead of Istanbul, rammed by the Italian steamer "Adria". ]