“The heat was suffocating,” a French cavalryman remembered.

Outside the barn, Conger, Baker, Doherty, and the cavalrymen tensed for action.

Kornilov, a Siberian Cossack, appeared in public surrounded by a bodyguard of tribal Turkmen cavalrymen, and posters with his image adorned Moscow streets in 1917.

It took museum officials a couple of weeks to notice that the thumb was missing from a warrior known as the cavalryman.

Confederate cavalryman Joseph Wheeler is honored by the state of Alabama with a statue in National Statuary Hall.