Abram Michailowitsch Dragomirow

Abram Michailowitsch Dragomirow, before 1920

Abram Dragomirov ( Russian Абрам Михайлович Драгомиров ; born April 9, ^jul. / 21st April  1868 ^greg. In Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 9. December 1955 in Gagny in Paris ) was an officer in the Imperial Russian Army , most recently General of Cavalry , and member of the White Movement in the Russian Civil War .

Life

Dragomirow was born the son of General Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirow . After training in the page corps , he was accepted as a lieutenant in the Semyonovskoye bodyguard regiment in 1887 . In 1893 he completed the course at the Nikolaus General Staff Academy with honors and was transferred to the staff of the 2nd Caucasian Cossack Division as staff captain . After his promotion to colonel in 1902, he served as chief of staff in the 7th and later the 10th Cavalry Division. From 1910 to 1912 he commanded the 9th Kiev Hussar Regiment before being appointed Chief of Staff of the Commander of the Kovno Fortress . In the same year he was promoted to major general. As the commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 9th Cavalry Division, he saw the beginning of the First World War in 1914 .

Dragomirow (1st from right) surrounded by other commanders of the Northern Front, around 1917

In December 1914, the 16th Cavalry Division was formed from his brigade, which Dragomirov, promoted to Lieutenant General , continued to lead. In April 1915 he was promoted to commanding general of the IX. Army Corps (part of the 3rd Army under Radko Dimitriev ) appointed. A year later, in August 1916, he was promoted to General of the Cavalry and Commander in Chief of the 5th Army deployed on the newly formed Northern Front . After the February Revolution of 1917 , at the end of April, he gave his command to General Danilov to take over command of the Northern Front from General Russky . After he had spoken out sharply against the declaration on soldiers' rights shortly after his appointment, he was dismissed from this post at the end of the following month and made available to the Minister of War.

After the October Revolution , Dragomirov went to the Don region, where he joined the White Army . He became the second deputy chairman of the special committee at the High Command of the Armed Forces of Southern Russia and an assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of the Volunteer Army . From October 1918 to September 1919 he headed the special committee, after which he commanded the Kiev region. After the evacuation from Novorossiysk to Constantinople , he went first into Serbian exile, later to France. He participated in the activities of the Russian All-Military Union . In 1934 he went to Serbia again, later he lived in Austria. During the Second World War he supported the movement of General Vlasov and was admitted to the ranks of the Russian Liberation Army in early 1945 with reservist status . He again spent the end of his life in France.

Web links

Commons : Abram Michailowitsch Dragomirow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biographical information on grwar.ru (Russian)
• Biographical information on 1914ww.ru (Russian)