Anya Koslov

Anya Koslov (October 18, 1919 - September 10, 2014) is a High Ranking Official in the Red Army and commanded the 13th Guards Rifle Division. She became a General in 1938 and was the youngest woman to become a General in the Red Army with the help of her father, Issac.

She served as a Lieutenant General in the Red Army untill Late - 1945. After she officially retired later becoming a school teacher in Economics and Geography in Moscow and lived a peaceful life. In 1945, she secretly became Pro-Capitalist after the victory of World War II, but never told the public to avoid being sent to prison and killed.

Her favorite songs of the Soviet Union is Polyushka Polye and Farewell of Slovianka.

Early Life
Anya was born in St. Petersburg, (Later Leningrad, USSR) Russia in 1919 before Vladimir Lenin came to power and came from a military family and was an only child. Like her Family Members's before her, her grandparents, mother, and father were soldiers. Anya was born with Blonde Hair and Blue Eyes like her mother, but later, her hair faded to a light brown as she began turning 30 years of age. She was born into a wealthy Russian Family. Her father Issac Koslov, is a General in the Soviet Airforce during World War II, and was a Red Army General in the Rusisan Revolution.

Military Career
Military Academy

In 1936 at just 17 years of age, her father Issac Koslov, sent Anya to an Officer Academy in Moscow where she stayed for 2 years. While at the academy, she learned how to lead, act, and become a officer of the Soviet Union. She later graduated in the summer of 1938 at the highest of her class.

That same year, she was promoted to Major General by Joseph Stalin himself. Taking an oath, swearing her loyal duty to the Soviet Union, she became the youngest Gerneral in the Soviet Army. She would later be put to the test by being given full command over the 13th Guards Rifle Division in the spring of 1939. She was given commands by Stalin to attack Poland in 1939, she did so, and won which gave the Soviet Union an Eastern Portion of Poland. In June of 1941, she didn't hesitate to crush the German Invaders. Her division saw action at Operation Barborossa in June, 1941 and suffered a crushing defeat from the Germans which angered Anya.

In 1939, before the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, she sent her 13th Guards Rifle Division into a winter war against Finland and won with a decisive victory and a peace treaty. In May 1942, she sent the 13th Guards Division to the Second Battle of Kharhov where they suffered a crushing defeat, which hurt her possibilites of being promoted. She was exempted by Stalin since he knew her father well and trusted him.

She gave the order for the the 13th Guards Rife Division to head to Stalingrad in October of 1942. There, the 13th Guards Rifle Division suffered a long and cruel winter. But made it through and sabotaged, aswell as defeated the Germans. The victory at Stalingrad got her a promotion, she went from Major General, to a Lieutenant General in March, 1943.

Happy with the victory at Stalingrad and her promotion, she sent the 13th Gaurds Rifle Division on leave for home to give them a break from the war, untill called back into duty. On July 4, 1943, one day before the German's invaded Kursk, she immediatly musterd the 13th Guards Rifle Division back into service and shipped them to Kursk on the morning of the attack. Once again, another victory for the USSR. Her division served out the rest of World War II in Budapest, Hungary untill the victory in Berlin, May 2, 1945, and the fall of Nazi Germany.

Once she had heard news of the USSR Victory over Nazi Germany, she went to Berlin at once. Once she arrived in Berlin, the city was a disaster. She congradulated her men and made sure they got home by June 1945. While in Berlin, she had given mercy to the German Prisoners that her men had captured, and sent them home aswell.

Later Life
In the final days of World War II, she had personally met up with Oberst Erwin and Tyler Haugen where the three of them discussed peace terms 6th Panzer Division and 5th SS Wiking. Tyler and Joel agreed to her peace agreeemnts. After the war, Anya stayed in touch with Haugen and Erwin often and became friends. At Erwin's funeral in 2008, her and many others participated in his funeral. She later married a man named Ivan Gavlik, later changing her last name to Gavlik, together they had two sons (Vasili and Issac), and a daughter (Annie).