<div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/2f/WW1_Russian_soldier.jpg)</div><strong>PLAYER NAME:</strong>Alex Stone<br/><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong>Ivan Ivanovich Sergetov (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=178881.0)<br/><strong>AGE:</strong>29 in 1923.<br/><strong>PROFESSION:</strong>Bodyguard/Adventurer<br/><strong>COUNTRY OF BIRTH:</strong>Rostov, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire<br/><br/><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong>(Picture to come.) A tall, broad shouldered former soldier with a bushy goatee that apes styles from before the war.  Dresses in loose fitting, low end suits during the day, but has proper evening wear for a club or cabaret.  Dark eyes that, when there's nothing else going on, alternate between a distant stare and an active scan over the area.  His skin is aged and a little leathery, having spent too much time outside for his own good during the war.<br/><br/><strong>PERSONALITY IN A NUTSHELL:</strong>Stereotypical Russian demeanor that hides a idealistic adventurer's spirit, which two wars haven't smothered.<br/><br/><strong>PERSONAL HISTORY:</strong><br/>He volunteered before he could be conscripted, in 1912, in order to fight for God and the Tsar.<br/><br/>Well, actually, he signed up to defend Orthodoxy from the Turk, never minding the fact that, since the 1700s, the Turks had needed saving more than the Russians.  That, and the uniforms looked pretty neat, according to the girls down at the dance hall.  He was going to get conscripted, so he went in on his own terms.  He managed to make his way to a unit stationed down near Tbilisi in 1914, just as the Archduke died.  When the Ottomans entered the war, he got his first taste of fighting blunting the disastrous- for them- Ottoman winter offensive in 1914.  He got frostbite that winter, but got back to the front in 1915, then took a bullet in the chest during an assault.  He survived 1916, but, when the Tsar abdicated, decided he wasn't going to fight for some worthless SR sonofabitch, and he ditched the army for a while to sign on with an Orthodox Armenian militia, who made him a platoon commander because of his experience.<br/><br/>It didn't take long for the Turks to maul that group, and shortly after that, Lenin tossed Kerensky out on his ass.  Since the Bolsheviks were priest-killers, he had to stick around for a while longer, and he snuck out of Georgia to Odessa on a fishing ship to sign on with the growing Volunteer Army in early 1918.  He bounced around the army a lot, but spent the bulk of the time as the leader of a shock platoon, when he wasn't in the rear area over some fool thing or another.  1919, of course, saw the high water mark of the Volunteers, but they never did reach Moscow.  Sergetov survived the retreat back to the Crimea, and managed to get aboard one of the ships headed for Toulon.<br/><br/>They took his rifle- which he'd carried for nearly 8 years, but no one asked about the bag full of jewels he looted in Karkhov.<br/><br/>In the South of France, he sold his jewels for Francs, but discovered that both he would run short on money pretty soon, and there wasn't much to do down there once you got down to it.  Most of the Russians with any means had moved to Paris, and the rough sorts like him had dispersed around.  His buddy, Alexandr Vorchov, had moved to Berlin, where girls could be had for centime, the beer was good, and there were quite a few like him- and, if he wanted danger, he could find it and get a little extra cash.  So, he packed up his clothes, wired his money forward,and got a dive flat for just about no real money.  Alexandr got him a job as a part-time bodyguard for one of the local politicians- apparently, politics in Berlin was a rough sport- and Ivan decided to enjoy the place.  He'd always been good with languages, and picked up the local German dialect pretty quickly, and that let him really enjoy himself.<br/><br/><strong>GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS:</strong><br/><br/>Overthrow the Bolshevik regime and restore the Romanov Dynasty<br/><br/>Get mixed up in some sort of scheme or adventure while living cheaply in Berlin<br/><br/>Keep from getting bored by spending time with all the girls around town<br/><br/><strong>IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES:</strong><br/><br/>Alexandr Vorchov, his army buddy and fellow troublemaker<br/><br/>Stefan Pressman, his patron in the<em>Deutche Volkspartei</em>, a good anti-Marxist party.<br/><br/>The Hermitage, a club for Russian anti-Bolshevik exiles.<br/>