Dmitry Shcherbachev
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Dmitry Grigoryevich Shcherbachev (
Biography
Early life
Shcherbachev was born on 6 February [
Military career
Shcherbachev graduated from the
In 1884, Shcherbachev graduated from the
World War I
General Shcherbachev commanded the
For the fact that in the battles of the mountains. Lemberg and in especially persistent battles under the mountains. The Rawa-Russian manifestation of a special viability and tireless energy in the management of troops, thanks to a coalition result, remote attempts at battle, and also troops took many guns, charging boxes, ammunition, prisoners, and the direct fall of the mountains. Lemberg is obligated to its orders.
In mid-September 1914, he led the siege detachment (6.5 divisions), which carried out the siege of the
For the excellent leadership of the troops entrusted to him by the army in the battles of the second half of August 1915, of which the battles of August 24–25 under the Island and Draganovka were especially successful, and in the battles of 11-15th and 22-25th September and 8th, October 1915, with the troops of this army during the period from August 17 to October 10 taken prisoner 934 officers and 52895 lower ranks and captured 36 guns and 149 machine guns.
In October 1915, he was promoted to
February Revolution
Shortly after the February Revolution, Shcherbachev was appointed deputy to the Commander-in-Chief of the Romanian Front (King Ferdinand I), replacing General Andrei Zayonchkovski. The front was established in 1916 to connect to the defeated Romanian Army, also to prevent the threats to the south of Russia. As deputy commander-in-chief of the front, he had four Russian and two Romanian armies subordinate to him.
In July 1917, the Russo-Romanian forces commanded by General Alexandru Averescu defeated the Austro-German forces at Mărăști, but they failed to develop further success due to the telegram from the minister-chairman of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky, who ordered the stop of the offensive in connection with the German breakthrough at Tarnopol. In late July to August 1917, the Russo-Romanian forces successfully repelled the Austro-German forces led by German Generalfeldmarschall August von Mackensen at Mărășești.
Russian Civil War
General Shcherbachev managed to prevent the disintegration and was able to keep order in the army for some time under the influence of the
In December 1917, with the consent of Shcherbachev, Romania invaded
In early January 1919, Shcherbachev arrived in
In May 1920, due to a disagreement with Lieutenant-General
In either case, the position of Wrangel's Army would be greatly improved. So Shcherbachev advised General Wrangel not to launch any offensive, diverting the Bolshevik forces from the
Later life
After his resignation, he moved to
Death
He died January 18, 1932. He was buried with military honors by a French battalion of
Honours
Domestic
- Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd class (1879)
- Order of St. Anna, 3rd class (1885)
- Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class (1888)
- Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class (1891)
- Order of St. Anna, 2nd Class (1896)
- Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class (1899)
- Order of St. Stanislaus, 1st class (1905)
- Order of St. Anna, 1st class (5.6.1911)
- Order of St. George, 4th class (EP 27.9.1914)
- Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class with swords (VP 19.2.1915)
- St. George Sword(VP 23.4.1915)
- Order of St. George, 3rd class (VP 27.10.1915)
- Order of the White Eagle (1915)
- Order of St. Alexander Nevsky(VP 6.7.1916)
Foreign
- French Third Republic:
- Legion of Honour, officer's cross (1897)
- Legion of Honour, commander's cross (1911)
- Legion of Honour, grand’croix (1918)
- Kingdom of Romania:
- Order of the Crown, commander's cross (1899)
- Order of Michael the Brave, 3rd class
- Order of Michael the Brave, 2nd class
- Grand Duchy of Oldenburg:
- House and Merit Order of Peter Frederick Louis, officer's cross (1903)
- Kingdom of Italy:
- Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, commander's cross (1903)
- Qing dynasty:
- Order of the Double Dragon, 2nd class (1911)
- Order of the Double Dragon, 3rd class (1911)
- Kingdom of Montenegro:
- Order of Prince Danilo I, 1st class (1912)
- Kingdom of Serbia:
- Order of St. Sava, 1st class (1912)[1]
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References
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- ^ Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 632.