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Guess which category '''Baron Ungern-Sternberg''' falls under?
 
Going by the full name of [[TryOverly toLong Fit That on A Business CardName|Freiherr Roman Nikolai Maximillian Ungern von Sternberg]] (usually shortened to Ungern-Sternberg or just Ungern), this blood-soaked Russian warlord seems like a villain from a pulp novel, but to his victims he was all too real. Born in 1885 to a family of Baltic German nobles (these families formed the backbone of the Tsarist state), Ungern relished the fading ideals of absolute monarchy and feudalism. As Russia was modernized in leaps and bounds, Ungern delved ever more deeply into right-wing extremism and ancient mysticism. A most unorthodox Orthodox Christian, he also absorbed (and horribly misinterpreted) several Buddhist ideals, and showed a general fascination with East Asia.
 
Ungern wasn't a bully in school, but rather one of the [[Creepy Child|kids that scared even the bullies]]. He did in the military academy, too spoiled and unstable to handle discipline. He jumped at the chance to fight the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War, but most of the conflict ended before he could get there. The seriousness of the situation did serve to drum at least a little bit of discipline into him, and Ungern, for all his Russian pride, admired the skill and courage of the [[Katanas of the Rising Sun|Imperial Japanese Army.]]
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