 Complete the following phrase:  Alexei was born in Novocherkassk, Don Host Oblast, to Yesaul Vladimir A. Kravtzov, hero of the Russo-Japanese War of the a Don Cossacks family of Kravtzov. Kravtzov graduated from Novocherkassk Military School for the 1st Class. Yesaul on September 5, 1914. At the start of World War I Alexei Kravtzov was put in charge of the 57th Don Cossacks Regiment. During the opening stages of Russian Civil War Kravtzov served in the Don Army. He organized 1st Cossack Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in March 1918 at the stanitsa Ust-Medveditskaya, and was commissioned as a colonel in the Don Army. His Regiment took heavy losses during the 