- Igor Doubenko
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Igor Doubenko-Lazarev is an international civil servant, career diplomat and cross-cultural training specialist. He is the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Rights Educational Project (UNHREP).
Family lineage
Mr. Doubenko belongs to an ancient Russian nobility dynasty, the Lazarev family of Arzamass Uezd (Region) of Russia. The Dynasty was founded in the 17th century by Grigory Lazarev, a wealthy Arzamass Uesd land and property owner [1].
Countess Istomina-Lemesheva, Mr. Doubenko's great-grandmother. Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1925.
Among the most prominent members of the Lazarev Dynasty is Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, a 19th Century Russian Imperial Navy Officer, Admiral and Russian Imperial Black Sea Commander. "As a commander of the ship Mirny and Fabian von Bellingshausen's deputy on his world cruise in 1819-1821, Lazarev took part in the discovery of Antarctica and numerous islands."Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev.
At the time of the Russian Civil War, Mr. Doubenko's great-grandfather, Mikhail Mikhailovich Lazarev, served as an officer with the "Armed Forces of South Russia" (White Guard) under General Bredov [2]. "In those hardship years, when White Officers died daily in battle, it was easy to get promoted, often skipping a rank" #References. He retired from the Army in the rank of Staff-Captain. In the mid 1920s he left Russia for New Zealand, where he died in 1955.
References
- Vladimir Diagilev & Vladimir Lodytsin. "The Volunteer of Two Russian Armies," Marina Tsvetayeva Marina Tsvetaeva House-Museum [3], Moscow, 2005, ISBN 5-93015-071-0 ;
- Gregor McShane, "From Archangel to New Zealand," Rimu Publishing Company Ltd, Hamilton, New Zealand, 1985, ISBN 0-908703-05-8.
External links
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