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9 Jun 2015, 03:02 AM
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from Carnage: The German Front in World War One- Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War) by Alistair Smith

9 Jun 2015, 03:38 AM
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Tsar-Tank - prototype tank 1914-1915.





Cossacks.







1st women battalion of Maria Bochkareva.

Bochkareva.








Young Carl Mannerheim, he was officer of Russian empire, general-leytinant in the end, until 1917.






On the coronation of Nicolas II.



10 Jun 2015, 05:26 AM
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from The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War by Hew Strachan
10 Jun 2015, 08:22 AM
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from Tank Battles of World War I by Bryan Cooper

13 Jun 2015, 17:11 PM
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Cool!
Been waiting for a thread like this. :)
15 Jun 2015, 12:04 PM
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For Russia this period wasn't only about WWI, it was also the time of 1917-1918 revolution, the results of which have led to Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and technical defeat. It was war outside and inside Russia.

Leaders of revolution.

Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov)- Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR.






Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronshtein) - Commissar for Foreign Affairs and Brest-Litovsk, second man in Bolshevik party.






Young Stalin (Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) - People's Commissar for Nationalities' Affairs in this period.








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16 Jun 2015, 04:38 AM
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Sailors was important part of revolution, cause they had access to weapons, and were located in the big port cities, such as St.Petersburg.

"Aurora" - is famous for a first shot at Winter palace, it was shot without a shell and served as a signal for assault.




1967.


Winter palace (part of Hermitage museum).


Sailors.


On the banner - "Death to bourgeois".








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17 Jun 2015, 12:10 PM
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Demonstrations of different political parties.

"Eternal memory for freedom fighters."


"Glory to army, people and constituent assembly".






Last sentence - "Send Lenin back to Wilhelm (Wilhelm II, Kaiser)".


"Red guard."


Dispersion of demonstration in July 1917.


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18 Jun 2015, 10:13 AM
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Russian officers during WWI.

Nicholas II, Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov - last Tsar, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russia.








Aleksei Alekseevich Brusilov - General Adjutant, Russian general most noted for the development of new offensive tactics used in the 1916 Brusilov Offensive.







Anton Ivanovich Denikin - Lieutenant General, was one of the most successful commander of Imperial Russian Army, one of leaders of White movement.







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20 Jun 2015, 08:05 AM
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Good pictures! Love a bit of Russia, it gets forgotten too easily with the Western Front and all that (at least in the West)
21 Jun 2015, 08:59 AM
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Thanks Marco.
Artillery of Imperial Russian army.













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22 Jun 2015, 13:45 PM
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Russian chemical protection during WWI.

Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinsky - inventor of the first effective filtering activated charcoal gas mask in the world (1915).


His gas mask.


"Trunk" usage.


Field tests.








Different types.


Basic protection.




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22 Jun 2015, 13:58 PM
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I always find the colour photos to make a bigger impact. The black and white ones seem so far away, colour hits you harder..








25 Jun 2015, 15:23 PM
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Russian officers during WWI.

Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov - military intelligence officer and general in the Imperial Russian Army, leader of White movement.






His "Wild division" during revolution in 1917.


Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich - commander of the Russian Imperial Army, last cavalier of second class Order of Saint George.






Second class Order of Saint George.



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30 Jun 2015, 16:21 PM
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Garford-Putilov Armoured Car were a type of armoured fighting vehicle produced in Russia during the First World War era. They were built on the frames of Garford Motor Truck Co. lorries imported from the United States.













German soldiers with captured armoured car.




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3 Jul 2015, 19:49 PM
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Sikorsky Ilya Muromets (Sikorsky S-22 and S-23) is a class of Russian pre-World War I large four-engine commercial airliners and heavy military bombers used during World War I by the Russian Empire. The aircraft series was named after Ilya Muromets, a hero from Russian mythology.

Sikorsky in 1914.












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5 Jul 2015, 16:02 PM
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World War II From Above: An Aerial View of the Global Conflict by Jeremy Harwood
10 Jul 2015, 07:04 AM
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The Forts of the Meuse in World War I (Fortress) , Clayton Donnell


21 Jul 2015, 22:14 PM
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THE OXFORD
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE
FIRST WORLD
WAR
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21 Jul 2015, 22:18 PM
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THE OXFORD
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE
FIRST WORLD
WAR
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