Hypolytte Nikolaevitch Sokolnikov

[Hypolytte Nikolaevitch Sokolnikov]

Can any of you military experts help me do some tracing?

I live in a tiny village in the south of France and have made the acquaintance of another resident, an elderly Russian lady called Olga Igoraevna Sokolnikova.

She says she still has relatives in the Moscow area but her main anticedents came from St Petersburg.

Her grandfather: Hypolytte Nikolaevitch Sokolnikov. She says he was general of artillery in WWI and was killed late in the war. She says her family had close connections with either an artillery or engineering school/college in St.P

Her father: Igor Hypolotovitch Sokolnikov. He was a Lieutenant in the artillery in WWI and escaped in 1920
She says her mother left at the same time as her father but that they did not leave together.  

Olga was, I believe born in the 1920's (I have yet to ask the exact date!) but what is interesting is the General Deniken was her God-father as they shared a house in Paris (1925).

I have promised to do some research for Olga so any help with any pictures/details would be greatly appreciated.
Nigbil

I think that the most simple thing is to write to the
State Military Archive of Moscow.
They will send the reply.
They definitely had to have the
Individual File or Pension File.

If you want to write,
I could give the fax or mail.
(I think that it is better to
send both. and after sending to call and to clarify who is PIC )

Thank you. I will send them an email if you can give me the address. I hope I can write in English!

There may of course be people out there with old pictures, one of which, if I am lucky, might show one or both of these gentlemen.........

Yes, Of course, I understand you perfectly
To meet people who have some photos or info is the best.

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