General V. G. Naumenko (1883-1979) was a Kuban Cossack who rose to colonel in the Russian Imperial Army during World War I and then to general under Generals Anton Denikin and Peter Wrangel in the Volunteer Army, the last of the White Armies that fought the Soviet Red Army during the Russian Civil War. He was elected Ataman of the Kuban Cossacks while in exile on the island of Lemnos after being evacuated from Crimea at the end of the Civil War. After Lemnos, he settled in Yugoslavia, remaining as Ataman. After World War II, he resettled near New York City in the United States. Translator William Dritschilo is the author or coauthor of the non-fiction books, Earth Days and Survivors of Lienz, the Web biography, Magnificent Failure, and the recently published historical novels, Ecologists and Lienz Cossacks.b