About Vladimir May-Mayevsky
Vladimir Zenonovich May-Mayevsky KCMG was a Russian military leader who was a general in the Imperial Russian Army and one of the leaders of the counterrevolutionary White movement during the Russian Civil War. During the Russo-Japanese War, May-Mayevsky was promoted to the rank of colonel and commanded the 1st Guards Corps, which he continued to command in the First World War, when he was promoted to the rank of major general. This unit soon merged with the Volunteer Army, and May-Mayevsky became a divisional commander.
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