Winter of 1970. Cairo, Egypt.

Life, uninterrupted by the red terror in Russia, continued to be fruitful in distant Egypt.

The valiant officer of the His Majesty's Life-Guards Cossack Regiment, military senior (lieutenant colonel) Sergey Vladimirovich Ivanov-Divov, is depicted in the photograph. Three brothers-officers Ivanovs-Divovs, Alexander Vladimirovich, major general, Anatoly Vladimirovich, captain of the guard, and Sergey Vladimirovich, having gone through the horrors of World War I and the Civil War, settled in Cairo.

Anatoly and Sergey evacuated from Crimea to Egypt in 1920, taking with them their parents, actual state councilor Vladimir Vasilievich and Lydia Alexandrovna.

After their father's death in 1926, brothers Alexander and Anatoly moved to Europe, while Sergey Vladimirovich remained in Egypt until the end of his days. In 1936, he buried his mother.

Sergey Vladimirovich worked for a long time in the Suez Canal operating bureau. Earning a good salary in European Cairo, he acquired a large apartment and, together with his wife Elena Nikodimovna (née Makovskaya, granddaughter of a famous artist), furnished it in Russian style, ordering furniture based on his own designs.

Even before retiring, Sergey Vladimirovich mastered the profession of a painting restorer. The National Museum of Egypt entrusted him with the restoration of a painting of Napoleon Bonaparte, kept in Cairo.

Throughout their life in Egypt, the Ivanovs-Divovs family kept a servant, an Egyptian named Muhammad, who was both a cook and a house assistant. Sergey Vladimirovich referred to him not as a servant, but as his personal attendant. Muhammad lived in a room above their apartment and would come in the mornings at the clap of hands with coffee and newspapers.

In 1964, Sergey Vladimirovich became a widower, burying his wife in the Christian Greek cemetery of Cairo. Five years later, her remains were transferred to the crypt, where the bones of many Christians are kept.

The Parisian Life-Guards Cossacks repeatedly offered Sergey Vladimirovich to move to France to a home for Russian veterans in Montmorency, but he refused, not wanting to lose his pension, job, and leave Muhammad, who had served him for 40 years.

Sergey Vladimirovich Ivanov-Divov passed away on May 11, 1973, in Cairo. Five years later, his remains were transferred to the crypt next to his wife's ashes.

The youngest of the four brothers, Yuri Vladimirovich Ivanov-Divov, also an officer of the Life-Guards Cossack Regiment, survived on the front of World War I, but, insulted by deserters who tore off his epaulettes, committed suicide, unable to bear the disgrace.