 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Alexei akaberekerwa muNovocherkassk, Don Host Oblast, kuna Yesaul Vladimir A. Kravtzov, gamba reRusso-Japanese Hondo yemhuri yeDon Cossacks yeKravtzov. Kravtzov akapedza kudzidza paNovocherkassk Military School ye1st Class. Yesaul musi waSeptember 5, 1914. Pakutanga kweHondo Yenyika I Alexei Kravtzov akaiswa mutariri we57th Don Cossacks Regiment. Munguva yematanho ekutanga eHondo Yenyika yeRussia Kravtzov akashanda muDon Army. Akaronga 1st Cossack Volunteer Cavalry Regiment muna Kurume 1918 pa stanitsa Ust-Medveditskaya, uye akagadzwa semukuru wemauto muDon Army. Regiment yake yakarasikirwa zvikuru mukati meIce March. Akapfura kuti arege kuwira mumaoko emaBolshevik akakuvadzwa panguva yeHondo yeLoznoye kubva muna Zvita 22 kusvika Zvita 30, 1918, uko hurumende yake yakaponesa nekumanikidza mauto eDon Army pasi pehutungamiriri hwaGeneral Alexnder V. Golubintzev. 