Russia In World War I: Stunning Colorized Photos Show Russian Fighters Of The Great War

Russia has the largest military power at the outbreak of the Great War, with over 5.9 million military personnel. However, the poor infrastructure and lack of effective planning led the strongest military to negotiate. From the beginning, the poor roads and lack of railway infrastructure made the deployment difficult. Russian military commander, Yuri Danilov, decided to invade Germany and Austria-Hungary. During the war, Russian mainly focused on the eastern front. However, the battles of Tannenberg at the Woods were early defeats for the Russian army. The Brusilov Offensive, also known as the “June Advance,” completely changed the game for Russia. Historian Graydon Tunstall called the Brusilov Offensive the worst crisis of World War I for Austria-Hungary and the Triple Entente’s greatest victory. Still, it came at a tremendous loss of life. The Kerensky Offensive proved to be the final nail in the coffin. This military catastrophe greatly weakened the Russian Military and provisional government. The revolution brought Lenin and Bolsheviks into power and ended Russia’s participation in the Great War by negotiating with Germany on December 16, 1917. Over 15 million Russian soldiers served in the Great War; out of them, 1.7 million died in the war and over 4 million wounded. These stunning colorized photographs show Russian soldiers, commanders, and other fighters of World War One.

#1 Shell hole, 1914

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#2 Colonel Grigory Kuchin, 1914

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#3 General Aleksei Brusilov, circa 1914

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#4 Michael A. Dashkov, Captain of the 9th Russian Army under the command of General Lechitsky, November 19, 1914

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#5 Portrait of a Russian nurse, 1914

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#6 A young lieutenant with the Order of St. Vladimir, 1915

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#7 Grand Duchess Olga at a hospital, circa 1915

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#8 Military pilot Ensign Vasily Vishnyakov, 1915

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#9 Observer-pilot sub-lieutenant Dobrovolsky in his Deperdussin, November 1915

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#10 Russian aviator Pyotr Krisanov, circa winter 1915

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#11 Russian nurse, circa 1915

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#12 Russian soldiers, 1915

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#13 The widow of Colonel Grigory Kuchin Vera Ivanovna and her daughter Xenia and her son Constantin, 1915

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#14 A plane is in the air, July 14, 1916

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#15 Burial of a fallen russian soldier, 1916

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#16 Easter at the front, 1916

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#17 Russian nurse, 1916

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#18 Russian soldiers before the attack, 1916

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#19 1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, 1917

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#20 The commander of the female ‘Battalion of Death’ Maria Bochkareva, November 22, 1917

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#21 Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk (sitting, l-r Lev V.Kamenev, Adolff A. Joffe, Anastasia A. Bitzenko; standing V. V. Lipskiy, P. Stučka, Lev D.Trotsky, Lev M.Karakhan), January 15, 1918

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#22 A russian couple

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#23 Alphonse Flavien Poiré, Russian and French military pilot, one of the two (except the Czech Karel Vashatko) foreigners, awarded four degrees of St. George’s Cross

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#24 Full Cavalier of the Cross of Saint George

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#25 Full Knight of the Order of St. George Dmitry Kharyutin, commander of the 10th Company 398th Infantry Regiment Nizhnedneprovsky

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#26 Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Romanov in a military hospital

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#27 Karel Vašátko

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#28 Maria Bochkareva, a Russian woman who fought in World War I and formed the Women’s Battalion of Death

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#29 Maria Bochkareva, a Russian woman who fought in World War I and formed the Women’s Battalion of Death

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#30 Portrait of a Russian ensign

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#31 Portrait of a Russian pilot

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#32 Portrait of a Russian sub-lieutenant, artilleryman

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#33 Portrait of Russian pilot, aircraft designer, and aerobatics pioneer Pyotr Nesterov

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#34 Red Cross personnel attending to wounded soldiers on a Russian battlefield during the First World War

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#35 Russian army

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#36 Russian cavalryman

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#37 Russian ensign, Northwestern Front

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#38 Russian Expeditionary Force in France

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#39 Russian girl with doll

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#40 Russian infantryman

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#41 Russian nurse Zinaida Malynich

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#42 Russian nurse

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#43 Russian nurse

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#44 Russian nurse

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#45 Russian nurse

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#46 Russian scout Alekseev and his sculpture of moist sand

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#47 Russian soldiers relax

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#48 Russian soldiers with Arisaka rifles

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#49 Russian soldiers

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#50 Russian soldiers

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#51 Russian Women’s Battalion of Death

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#52 The captain L-T Lithuanian Regiment Bogutskiy with the Order of St. Vladimir 4 degrees with swords

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#53 The first Russian military pilot Evgeny Rudnev

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#54 The last projectile

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#55 Vasily Nimensky – Priest of the Vilna military hospital

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#56 Young Russian aviator

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