Anatol von Lieven

Anatol Leonid Fürst von Lieven, (1872 – 1937) was a Baltic German prince of the Lieven family who commanded a counter-revolutionary White movement during the Russian Civil War in Latvia known after him as the Liventsy. Biography Anatol von Lieven was born on November 16, 1872, in Saint Petersburg, the Russian Empire. He graduated from the in 1891 and from the Faculty of Law of Saint Petersburg Imperial University in 1895. After graduating from the university, on September 4, 1895, he entered the Chevalier Guard Regiment as a cadet. Having passed the officer's exam at the , on September 7, 1896 he was promoted to cornet. In 1898, he joined the guards cavalry reserve and settled on his Mežotne Palace near Bauska. In 1900–1901 he was an indispensable member of the Courland Governorate's Peasant Affairs Council. In 1901, he was promoted to Kamer-junker.