Dmitri Grigoryevich Shcherbachev

General Dmitri Shcherbachev

Dmitri Grigorievich Schtscherbatschow ( Russian Дмитрий Григорьевич Щербачёв , in German as Tscherbatschew transcribed; * February 6 ^jul. / 18th February  1857 ^greg. , † 18 January 1932 in Nice ) was a Russian officer in the Imperial Russian Army , most recently General of Infantry .

Life

Shcherbachev came from a noble family in the Saint Petersburg Governorate and was educated at the Oryol Military High School and the Alexander Military School in Moscow . He joined the armed forces in 1873 and completed a course at the Mikhail Artillery School in Saint Petersburg in 1876. He then served in the mounted guards artillery brigade. In 1884 he completed general staff training at the St. Nicholas Academy in St. Petersburg as a staff captain and then served as an adjutant in the staff of the 2nd Guards Rifle Brigade and as a company commander in the Life Guard Jäger Regiment . From 1890 to 1898 he was senior adjutant on the staff of the Guards and the Petersburg Military District and was promoted to colonel in 1894. He then served as Chief of Staff of the 2nd Guards Rifle Division until 1901.

From 1901 to 1903, Shcherbachev was commander of the 145th rifle regiment from Novocherkassk , then until 1906 commander of the Pavlovsky bodyguard regiment with the rank of major general . The regiment was involved in the bloody crackdown on protests in the Russian capital during the 1905 Revolution . From 1906 he was part of the emperor's entourage. From 1906 to 1907 he commanded the 1st Finnish Rifle Brigade, before he was then commander of the Nicholas General Staff Academy until 1912. From 1908 he was in the rank of lieutenant general .

In December 1912 Shcherbachev was the commanding general of the IX. Army corps in the Kiev military district, which he also led at the beginning of the First World War . In 1914 he took part in the battles of Lemberg and Rawa Ruska , among others , and was promoted to general of the infantry in December 1914. In April 1915 he was awarded the Sword of Saint George and took command of the 11th Army on the Strypa . From October 1915 he commanded the 7th Army , with which he took part in the Brusilov Offensive in 1916 .

In April 1917 Shcherbachev became an assistant (chief of staff) to the commander-in-chief on the Romanian front , King Ferdinand I. In December 1917, he took over command of the "Ukrainian Front" subordinated to the Kiev Central Na Rada and concluded an armistice with the Central Powers . After the end of the war, Henri Berthelot presented him with the Legion of Honor . He got Berthelot's agreement to convert with his troops to the White Army . He reached Yekaterinodar in December 1918. In early 1919 he traveled to Paris to solicit support for the White Movement among the participants in the peace conference there . A little later, Admiral Kolchak confirmed his position as the official representative of the White Movement with the Allies. In May 1920, Shcherbachev resigned from his post after disagreements with General Wrangel over possible cooperation with Poland . He retired to Nice, where he lived on support payments from the Romanian government. Here he died at the age of 74 in early 1932.

Web links

Commons : Dmitri Grigoryevich Shcherbachev  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography on grwar.ru (russ.)
• Biographical information on 1914ww.ru (russ.)
• Dmitry Shcherbachev on firstworldwar.com (Engl.)