Vladimir Mikhailovich Dragomirov (1862–1920) was a General

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 in Imperial Russian Army

Imperial Russian Army

The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of around 938,731 regular soldiers and 245,850 irregulars . Until the time of military reform of Dmitry Milyutin in...

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He was the son of Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov

Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov

Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov was a Russian general and military writer....

, a prominent Russian General. His brother Abram Dragomirov

Abram Dragomirov

Abram Mikhailovich Dragomirov 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.

Vladimir joined the Imperial Army, and in 1909 was District Quartermaster for the Kiev Military District

Kiev Military District

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, with the rank of Major General

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. He served as a Tsarist general for most of the First World War. He fought in Galicia and Volhynia

Volhynia

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 in 1916, receiving wounds. In May 1917, following the February Revolution

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 he was put in command of the Northern Front

Northern Front (Russian Empire)

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. Five months later Dragomirov succeeded Anton Denikin in command of the Southwestern Front

Southwestern Front (Russian Empire)

The Southwestern Front was a major unit of the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War. It was established on 19 August 1914.- Commanders of the Southwestern Front :* 19.07.1914-17.03.1916 — General of Infantry Nikolai Ivanov...

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Following the Bolshevik October Revolution, Dragomirov aligned himself with the counter-revolution and took up a leadership position among anti-Bolshevik White forces, placing himself at the head of an opposition Bolshevik administration in November 1918, meanwhile working closely with Denikin on the latter's military council.

He was appointed Military Governor at Kiev

Kiev

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 in October 1919. When Kiev fell to the polish Army the following year, he went missing presumed dead.