Background
Igor was born on June 10, 1894 and attended the Corps des Pages, an imperial military academy in Saint St. Petersburg.
Igor was born on June 10, 1894 and attended the Corps des Pages, an imperial military academy in Saint St. Petersburg.
He enjoyed theatre. During World War I, he was a captain in the Ismailovsky Guard Regiment and became a decorated war hero. However, his health was quite fragile: he suffered from pleurisy and lung complications in 1915, and even if he returned to the trenches, he couldn"t walk quickly and often coughed and spat blood.