 Those who graduated from the additional course used to join the General Staff.The alumni had the right to an accelerated promotion to the next rank and commanding posts.The academy used to employ some of the best military theoreticians and historians, such as Alexei Baiov, Mikhail Dragomirov, Heinrich Leer, Dmitry Maslovsky, Nikolai Medem, Dmitry Milyutin, Alexander Myshlayevsky, Alexander Puzyrevsky and others.