Dmitry Shcherbachev

Dmitry Shcherbachev
Dmitry Grigorevich Shcherbachev
Born 1857
Died 1932
Allegiance  Russian Empire
Service/branch Russian Imperial Army
Rank general
Commands held Russian Imperial Army
Battles/wars World War I

Dmitry Grigorevich Shcherbachev (1857–1932) served as a generally unsuccessful artillery commander in the Russian Army during the World War I.

Shcherbachev advocated the use of French breakthrough tactics, consisting of heavy artillery attacks concentrated on a narrow front of the enemy's line. He was in command of the IX Infantry Corps at the outbreak of the war. Under the command of Nikolai Ivanov he used this tactic during the disastrous Russian campaigns in Galicia and Bessarabia.

In the Bessarabia offensive Shcherbachev led the Seventh Army. The breakthrough tactic allowed the defenders to attack his flanks, bringing the overall advance to a halt.

Likewise his tactics proved disastrous at the start of the Brusilov Offensive - some 20,000 men were lost in a failed attack along the Strypa. However, commander Alexei Brusilov's insistence on a secondary attack at Jaslowiec on 4 June 1916 produced the desired breakthrough. The southern wing of Bothmer, the German general, was turned.

This success enabled the rehabilitation of Shcherbachev's military reputation. In 11 April 1917 Shcherbachev replaced Andrei Zayonchkovsky as commander of the Romanian Front. He held this position until 25 March 1918.

He subsequently joined the anti-Bolshevik White Army, fighting on the Don before fleeing into exile in France in 1919.

He died in 1932.

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This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.

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