Dmitry Kuskov

Dmitry Kuskov was a Russian career officer, a descendant of heredity nobility. He studied at the St. Petersburg University and joined the army in 1900. After he passed the exam for the officer rank at the Pavlovsk Military School, he was assigned to the Life Guards of the 2nd Battalion. He took part in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, where he was wounded and subsequently transferred to the Leningrad Guards. In 1909 Kuskov was lieutenant of the Life Guards of the Tsarskoye Selo Rifle Regiment and was later promoted to the rank of captain. In 1912, he attended the Imperial Nikolaev Military Academy. With his regiment he served in World War I, since 1916 in the rank of colonel. He later served in the 2nd Special Infantry on the Macedonian Front. He retired in early 1919 and left for the Far East. After the defeat of the White armies in Russia, he emigrated to France where he eventually died. He was awarded the orders of St. Anna and St. Stanislav.

At the 1912 Olympic Games, Kuskov competed in five free and military rifle events and one pistol shooting event. In the 1930s in Paris, he published several poems and a small book titled Swan Songs of the Buried Alive: A Collection of Rhymed Thoughts, Images, and Moods.