Alexander J. Krawtzoff was a Russian Imperial Army Yesaul during the First World War and a Commander of the North Groupe of Orenburg Army in White movement during the Ataman Alexander Dutovs revolt against the Soviet authorities in Orenburg in 1918. He was also one of the Orenburg Army officers who participated in march across Turgaj steppe.
Alexander Krawtzoff was born in a settlement Vozdvzhenskaya, in a noble family of Krawtzoff on October 11, 1893, son of cavalry officer Jacob S. Krawtzoff and his wife Marie. In 1914, Krawtzoff graduated from Orenburg Military School for the 1st Class and later served in the 14th Orenburg Cossacks Regiment.
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