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My maternal grandfather comes from dynasty of imperial officers with Cossack roots from modern central Ukraine (Poltava region) who served Russian Empire since 1700s. My grandfather (born 1911, we have a huge age gap with my parents-grandparents) served as a commander of artillery in WWII, his father was an artillery officer and commander of fortress artillery during Russian-Japanese war, he was a pensioner during revolution so he stayed in USSR, lots of his relatives finished up abroad in Belgrade, Paris, London, Rio. Great grandfather served as a volunteer artillery advisor in 1875 helping the Herzegovina Serbian insurgents against Ottomans, that's the most recent examples.
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