Career
He entered service in the Imperial Russian Army as a volunteer and fought during World War I in Persia and also on the Caucasus Front, where many Armenians, Caucasus Greeks, Georgians, and Russians fought against the forces of the Ottoman Empire. After the war he emigrated to Europe. During World World War II, Kromiadi was a supporter of the Russian Liberation Movement.
In 1942, he headed the Russian National People"s Army, an armed unit of Russians, under the pseudonym of Sanin, together with engineer South. Ivanov.
He was relieved by the Germans along with other Russian emigres, at which point he tried unsuccessfully to take command of another Russian unit, the Druzhina Brigade. In 1943, Vlasov gave Kromiadi command of his headquarters.
In 1980, he wrote a book on his experience in the Russian Liberation Movement called Foreign Land, for freedom.. which was published in San Francisco. He died in 1990.
