The Moscow period of V.F. Dzhunkovsky's biography began in December 1891. Still bearing the rank of lieutenant, he was appointed aide-de-camp to the Governor-General, the Grand Prince Sergei Alexandrovich, in whose service he would unremittingly be for almost fourteen years. On 30 July 1905 Dzhunkovsky became Moscow's deputy governor, and on 16 November that very year, acting Moscow governor, which was explained by the protracted illness of the head of the gubernia, G.I. Kristi. On 6 August 1908 Dzhunkovsky received the rank of major-general and was "established as Moscow governor, and enlisted in the retinue of the Cavalry of the Guards of His Majesty".
For his energetic actions during the big flood of April 1908 in the Moscow gubernia, Nicholas II conferred upon him a silver medal with the inscription "for the saving of the stricken".
From 10 April to 1 October 1909, as the post of governor-general was vacant, Dzhunkovsky was charged with the task of "resolving matters with regard to the administration of the Moscow governor-general and all institutions directly under the authority of the aforesaid administration", and from 1 October 1909 to 2 February 1913 with the issuing and expenditure of credits in this administration, at the same time acting as chairman of those institutions where "the governor-general by virtue of office had served as chairman".
Dzhunkovsky's actions as head of the second capital are connected with events of varying importance. Moscow witnessed the opening of monuments commemorating the writer N.V. Gogol, the Russian printing pioneer Ivan Fyodorov, and the charity worker and physician E.P. Gaaz (1909), an exhibition of agricultural machines at the Butyrka Khutor (1909), the opening of the Emperor Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts (1912), the holding of a one day census on 6 March 1912, and of course the grandiose celebration of the centenary of the Napoleonic war of 1812.
On 25 January 1913 he was appointed deputy minister of the interior and commander of an individual police corps, and in October 1915 transferred to the active army at the Western front. In December 1917 he retired due to illness.
During the years of Soviet power he was repeatedly arrested. In December 1937 Dzhunkovsky was detained on a charge of counter-revolutionary activities and executed in 1938.
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