Leonty Lukyanovich Masyanov ( October 17, 1894 , St. Chizhinskaya - June 24, 1978 , New York , USA ) - a corral of the Ural Cossack army , a participant in the White Movement during the Civil War as part of the Ural separate army .
Biography
Born October 17, 1894 in the village of Chizhinskaya, located near Uralsk . After graduating from the Ural Military Real School, he decided to devote himself to art and studied painting for two years in the St. Petersburg studio of Professor Cordoba.
He graduated from the Orenburg Cossack School in 1917 with the production of the rank of ensign .
He served in the white forces of the Eastern Front as part of the Ural separate army .
May 17, 1919 he was appointed to the Ural Cavalry Regiment, then he served in the 3rd Chizhinsky partisan cavalry regiment of the 6th Ural Cavalry Division of the Ural Cossack Army . A participant in the withdrawal of the remains of the Ural Army] to Fort Aleksandrovsky , and then, with a small group of Ural Cossacks led by the last ataman of the Ural Cossack Army, General S. Tolstov, he participated in a campaign in Persia . These events were described by him in the collection “The Death of the Ural Cossack Army”. He was promoted to the rank of corral .
In exile until 1923 he lived in Harbin ( China ), then since 1930 he lived in Paris , where he participated in public activities of the Cossack emigration and was the ataman of the village; He also made a collection of engravings on Cossack subjects. Since 1956 he lived in the United States . Together with his work, he placed his collection of engravings in the Museum of the Kuban Military House (Astoria district, New York). The author of the collection “The Death of the Ural Cossack Army”, first published in the USA in 1963 and a number of other works on the Ural Cossacks .
He died in the city of New York on June 24, 1978.