Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Dragomirov ya shiga sojojin soja a 1849, ya zama mataimakin laftanan a 1852 kuma laftanan a 1854. A cikin shekarar da ta gabata an zaɓe shi don yin karatu a Makarantar Nicholas (kwalejin ma'aikata), kuma a nan ya bambanta kansa sosai har ya sami lambar zinare, girmamawa wanda, kamar yadda aka bayyana, an ba da shi ga ɗalibin makarantar sau biyu kawai a cikin karni na 19. A shekara ta 1856, Dragomirov ya zama kyaftin din ma'aikata kuma a shekara ta 1858 ya zama cikakken kyaftin, an tura shi a shekarar da ta gabata don nazarin hanyoyin soja a cikin wasu ƙasashe. Ya ziyarci Faransa, Ingila, da Belgium, kuma ya rubuta rahotanni masu yawa game da koyarwa da sansanin motsa jiki na waɗannan ƙasashe a Châlons, Aldershot, da Beverloo. A shekara ta 1859, an haɗa shi da hedkwatar Sarkin Sardinia Victor Emmanuel II yayin yaƙin neman zaɓe na
Magenta da Solferino, kuma nan da nan bayan dawowarsa Rasha an tura shi zuwa Kwalejin Nicholas a matsayin farfesa na dabaru. Dragomirov ya taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen sake tsarin tsarin ilimi na sojojin, kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin mai koyarwa ga wasu sarakunan gidan sarauta. Wannan mukamin ya rike har zuwa 1863, lokacin da, a matsayin laftanan Kanar, ya shiga cikin dakile tawayen Poland na 1863-1864, ya koma St. Petersburg a shekarar da ta gabata a matsayin Kanar kuma shugaban ma'aikata ga daya daga cikin rukunin masu gadi. A lokacin yakin Austro-Prussian na 1866, an haɗa Dragomirov da hedkwatar rundunar sojojin Prussian ta biyu. Ya kasance a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe a saman Elbe da kuma a Königgrätz, kuma maganganunsa game da ayyukan da ya shaida suna da babbar daraja ga ɗaliban dabaru da yaƙin 1866.