Vladimir Mikhailovich Dragomirov (1862–1928) was a
general
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in the
Imperial Russian Army
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.
Life
Dragomirov was the son of
Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov
Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov (russian: Михаил Иванович Драгомиров; – ) was a Russian general and military writer. His grandfather Ivan Antonovych Dragomirecki-Mockewicz after being granted a noble title in 1786, change ...
, a prominent Russian General. His brother
Abram Dragomirov
Abram Mikhailovich Dragomirov (russian: Абра́м Миха́йлович Драгоми́ров, tr. ; 9 December 1955) was a General in the Imperial Russian Army. Following the Russian Revolution he joined Anton Denikin in the Volunteer Army. ...
was also a general in the Imperial Russian Army.
Dragomirov joined the Imperial Army, and in 1909 was appointed District Quartermaster for the
Kiev Military District
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, with the rank of
major general
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.
Rzhishchev, Ukraine
accessed 6 January 2009 He served as a general in the Russian army for most of the First World War. During the mobilization on July 19, 1914, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Third Army. Dragomirov commanded the 8th Army Corps between 16.12.1914 – 23.03.1915 and again between 18.08.1915 – 16.10.1916. In between those two periods, Dragomirov served as Chief of Staff of the South-Western Front.
On 12 May 1915, he was dismissed due to "nervous exhaustion."counter-revolution
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and took part in the Bredovsky expedition. After the defeat of the White forces in the Russian Civil War
, date = October Revolution, 7 November 1917 – Yakut revolt, 16 June 1923{{Efn, The main phase ended on 25 October 1922. Revolt against the Bolsheviks continued Basmachi movement, in Central Asia and Tungus Republic, the Far East th ...
, he went into exile in Yugoslavia. He was a member of the regimental association of the Life Guards of the Semyonovsky Regiment
The Semyonovsky Lifeguard Regiment (, ) was one of the two oldest guard regiments of the Imperial Russian Army. The other one was the Preobrazhensky Regiment. In 2013, it was recreated for the Russian Armed Forces as a rifle regiment, its na ...
, and served as chairman of the Russian Society of Officers of the General Staff.
He died of heart disease in Zemun
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(Yugoslavia) on January 29, 1928, where he was buried.
References
External links
Vladimir Dragomanov in Regiment.ru
(in Russian)
Vladimir Dragomanov in Hrono.ru
(in Russian)
1862 births
1928 deaths
People from Chernigov Governorate
Imperial Russian Army generals
Russian military personnel of World War I
People of the Russian Civil War
White movement generals
Russian anti-communists
Russian untitled nobility
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