Nikolai Pavlovich Sablin

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Nikolai Pavlovich Sablin (April 16, 1880 – August 21, 1937) was an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy. He grew up in Mykolaiv in a naval family—his father was Vice Admiral Pavel Sablin and his brother Mikhail Sablin also became an admiral.

Sablin finished the Marine Cadet Corps in 1898 and fought in the Boxer Rebellion (1899–1900). In the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) he served on the cruiser Almaz. From 1906 to 1914 he served on the Imperial Yacht Standart and eventually commanded the ship.

In 1914 he became an aide-de-camp to Tsar Nicholas II, and during World War I he commanded a battalion of the Russian Guard. After the February Revolution, he left the navy and joined the White movement in Ukraine and southern Russia.

Sablin left Crimea in 1921 and lived in exile in Constantinople, Berlin, and Paris. He stayed active in Russian exile organizations and, before his death, wrote memoirs with Roman Gul about his experiences with the Romanov family.

Nikolai Sablin died in Paris in 1937 and was buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery.