Christina, here is some information. Info is from the open sources. Hope it would be helpful;).
Service card of
Knyazhevich Dmitry Maximovich: (21.06.1874-1918). Officer. Religion-Orthodox. From the nobility. Graduated from the Corps de Pages (1894). After education was enlisted with a Cornet rank to HIH Marie Feodorovna Chevalier Guard Regiment (08.08.1894). Poruchik (08.08.1898). Graduated from the Nicholas Academy of General Staff (1900, 1st class). Stabs Rottmeister of the Guard, then Captain of the General Staff (06.05.1900). Was enlisted in Caucasus and St. Petersburg's military district. Senior Adjutant officer of the Staff of 18th Army Corps (03.03.1901-04.06.1902). Commander of the HIH Alexandra Feodorovna Cuirassier Guard's Regiment's squadron (08.10.1901-13.10.1902). Senior Adjutant officer of the Staff of 1st Army Corps (04.06.1902-15.03.1903). Ober officer for assignments in Guard's Staff and Peterburg's military district (15.03.1903-17.05.1904). From 1904 - Fligel Adjutant. Participated in the Russian-Japanese War (1904-1905). Staff officer for assignments in Guard's Staff and Peterburg's military district (17.05.1904-30.03.1908). Lieutenant Colonel (06.12.1904). Personal Staff officer for assignments of the Commander of Guard's Staff and Peterburg's military district (30.03.1908-14.08.1913). Was temporarely enlisted in HIH Marie Feodorovna Chevalier Guard Regiment (05.05.-20.09.1909). Colonel (06.12.1909). Temporarely served in Artillery (09.05.-11.07.1912), then in Infantry (19.07.-21.08.1912). Commander of the 1st Guard's Cavalry Division Staff (14.08.-24.12.1913). Commander of the HIH Alexandra Feodorovna Cuirassier Guard's Regiment (24.12.1913-09.08.1915). Participated in the WWI. Received Order of St. George (11.11.1914). Major General of HIM Suite (22.03.1915). Commander of the 2nd Brigade of 1st Guard's Cavalry Division (09.08.-30.08.1915). Commander of the 2nd Brigade of 2nd Guard's Cavalry Division (30.08.-19.12.1915). Commander of the 1st Brigade of 2nd Guard's Cavalry Division (19.12.1915-02.1917). Received St. George Sabre (10.02.1917). From 18.04.1917-Commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division. Killed in 1918.
Main decorations:
- Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd degree (1903)
- Order of St. Anna, 4th degree (1905)
- Order of St. Vladimir, 4th degree (1906)
- Order of St. Anna, 3rd degree with swords and bow (1906)
- Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd degree with swords (1906)
- Order of St. Anna, 2nd degree with swords (1906)
- Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd degree (04.03.1912)
- Order of St. George, 4th degree (11.11.1914)
- St. George Sabre (02.10.1917)
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Service card of
Knyazhevich Nicholay Antoninovich: (9.01.1871-04.03.1950). Officer, Local Statesman and Crimean manufacturer. Religion-Orthodox. Educated in the Alexander Lyceum (1891). Joined the military service in 05.08.1891. Passed the officer's exam in Pavlovsk Military School (1892). Cornet of the HIM Hussar's Regiment (04.08.1892). Poruchik (04.08.1896). Stabs Rottmeister (05.04.1898). Rottmeister (05.04.1902). Commanded the squadron. Fligel Adjutant (1904). Colonel (06.12.1904). Commander of the Crimean Cavalry Regiment (11.09.1908-09.10.1912) (*you can see several pics with Knyazhevich from Regimental meetings with Imperial family in Crimea in Vyrubova albums). During Regimental service built several buildings. including the Regimental Mosque in Simferopol. Major General (23.04.1912). Enlisted in HIM Suite with the same rank (1912). From 09.10.1912-Commander of the 2nd Brigade of 8th Cavalry Division. Participated in the WWI. Received St. George Sabre (09.03.1915). Governor of Odessa. Governor of Tavria (from 14.11.1914). Built a number of railways and wanted to make from Crimea a big resort. After Revolution and Civil War emigrated. In 1920 - in Yugoslavia, then (1921) in Hungary, and again in Yugoslavia. Emigrated to France. Head of the Crimean Cavalry Regiment union. Died in France in 1950. Buried on Sainte Genevieve des Bois.
Main decorations:
- Order of St. Stanislaus, 2rd degree (1901)
- Order of St. Anna, 3rd degree (1904)
- Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd degree (1909)
- St. George Sabre (03.09.1915)
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