Mikhail Alexandrovich Kedrov Mikhail Aleksandrovich Kedrov ( 1878 – 1945 , France ) was a Russian naval officer . Early life . Kedrov graduated from the Sea Cadet Corps in 1899 at the top of his class and served as a midshipman on the cruiser " Gertzog Edinburgsky " . Russo Japanese War . During the Russo - Japanese war he served as a pesrsonal flag officer to admiral Stepan Makarov . He was not on the battleship " Petropavlovsk " when that ship was sunk ( with the loss of the admiral and his staff ) as he was detached to the destroyer " Boyevoy " at the time . Subsequently Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft appointed Kedrov as his flag captain . Kedrov was wounded aboard the battleship " Tsesarevich " during the battle of the Yellow Sea . After recovering in hospital in Tsingtao he made his way to Cam Ranh Bay in French Vietnam joining up with the Second Pacific squadron . He fought at the battle of Tsushima aboard the cruiser " Ural " surviving her sinking . Kedrov completed the Mikhailov Artilery Academy in 1907 and was promoted to Captain Lieutenant and served aboard the training ship " Petr Velikiy " as a gunnery instructor eventually becoming her commander in 1913 and deputy chief gunnery officer of the Baltic Fleet . Word War I . In 1914 kedrov was the flag captain of the 2nd battleship squadron of the Baltic Fleet . In 1914 he was tasked with bringing the codebooks salvaged from the German cruiser " SMS Magdenburg " to Britain and was attached to the Royal Navy ' s Grand Fleet until 1915 serving aboard the cruiser " HMS Theseus " and the battleships " HMS Conqueror " and " HMS Emperor of India " In November 1915 Kedrov was appointed to command the Russian battleship Gangut . In February 1916 he was summoned to Russian general headquarters to explain directly to the tsar , Nicholas II , the causes of disturbances in the Russian fleet . Kedrov then was made commander of the destroyer division of the Baltic Fleet , and later was then promoted to Rear admiral in the Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy in the autumn of 1916 . In 1917 he was appointed commander of the battleship squadron of the Black Sea Fleet . After the abdication of the tsar and the beginning of the Russian Civil War , Admiral Kedrov served with the White forces during the Russian Civil War and was a Vice admiral in the White Russian naval forces . He helped Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel lead the White naval evacuation known as Wrangel ' s fleet in its November 1920 flight from the Crimea to Turkey and then Bizerte . The evacuation allowed 145 , 693 people , plus the ship crews , to escape the approaching Bolsheviks . In November 1920 Kedrov relinquished command of the fleet to Admiral Mikhail Berens Life in Exile . Kedrov settled in France and retrained as a civil engineer at the L ' École des Ponts et Chaussées . He worked as an enginner and became chairman of the Federation of Russian engineers in Paris . He Played a significant role in the Russian military emigration , was chairman of the Naval Union , which consisted of more than 30 departments and groups in different countries . Since 1930 he the second deputy chairman of the Company ' s Russian Military Union ( EMRO ) under General Evgeniy Miller . After the kidnapping of Miller bySoviet agents in 1937 , served as chairman of EMRO for a short time and then withdrew from political activity . From 1938 he was the Second Vice - President of the Union of Knights of St . George . He died in Paris and was buried in the cemetery of Sainte - Genevieve - des - Bois . Sources . " This article is translated from Russian Language Wikipedia "