Coast Guard Forgotten History: A Tsarist Officer in the US Coast Guard

George Vladimirovich Stepanoff was born in Moscow, Russia on April 23, 1893. Little is known about his early years except that his parents were Vladimir and Katherine Stepanoff and, in 1919, he was an Imperial Russian Navy officer stationed on board a Second-class Russian cruiser (destroyer) in Vladivostok.
During the Bolshevik Revolution Stepanoff remained loyal to [...]