Andrei Medardovich Zayonchkovsky () ( – 22 March 1926) commanded the defence of the Romanian-Bulgarian border in

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upon Romania's entry into

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in August 1916.

Biography

After graduation from the Nicholas School of Military Engineering (Nikolaevskoe Inzhenernoe Uchilishche) in 1882, Zayonchkovsky served in the 5th Sapper Battalion. In 1888 he graduated from the General Staff Academy and served in various staff positions. During the

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he commanded the 85th Vyborg Infantry Regiment and the 2nd brigade of the 3rd Siberian Infantry Division. During

Zayonchkovsky commanded first the 30th Army Corps. Following Romania's entry into the war on 27 August 1916, he commanded the Russian-Romanian Dobruja Army in charge of defending Dobruja against the Central Powers. He was relieved by general Dmitry Shcherbachev in April 1917 and was in retirement by the time of the

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. In 1918 he joined the

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, serving in various staff positions. After the end of the

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he switched to teaching in the Red Army Military Academy and writing. He wrote a two-volume overview of World War I military operations. While a professor, "Zayonchkovsky worked as an agent for the Soviet secret police at the same time he was head of the conspiratorial anti-Bolshevik Monarchist Union (The Trust)."''Time of Troubles: The Diary of Iurii Vladimirovich Got'e: Moscow, July 8, 1917 to July 23, 1922'', ed. and trans. Terence Emmons (Princeton Univ Pr, 1988: ), p. 92.

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