First World War (1919-1924)

The face of German President Paul von Hindenburg.

Hindenburg greets military personnel and officials after arriving at a ceremonial event.

View of the ceremonial rally (top).

Hindenburg takes part in the laying of the foundation stone for the Tannenberg Memorial on August 31, 1924, view of part of the ceremonial rally (top).

A boy in military uniform salutes.

A cavalryman rides past grave crosses.

Maps showing the main attacks of the German army on the Western Front (animation), German troops are engaged in combat.

Airplanes are flying.

One of the airplanes takes off.

German soldiers cut barbed wire.

German infantry advances under enemy artillery fire.

German horse artillery moves into position.

An artillery crew fires at the enemy.

German Foreign Minister Kühlmann signs the peace treaty in Brest-Litovsk in 1918. Kaiser Wilhelm II talking with Hetman P.P. Skoropadsky.

Parade of troops of the Ukrainian Republic in Kyiv in 1918. German regiment in formation.

German troops conduct military operations on the Western Front.

Corpses of French soldiers.

German stormtroopers attack an enemy trench.

Military operations on the Western Front.

An artillery piece fires from a pillbox embrasure.

An artillery piece fires through an embrasure.

Views of the Transylvanian Alps in gunpowder smoke (top).

Romanian Prince Carol and officers of the motorcycle machine gun company inspect a machine gun mounted on a motorcycle.

Warships on the move.

Officers on the ships' bridges.

US President Woodrow Wilson greets participants at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Views of railway stations and railway tracks, station structures along the train route.

View of an airfield along the railway track, an airplane near a canvas field hangar.

View of the railway track, people near the embankment.

View of part of a railway station, freight cars on rails.

View of the railway track receding, an army convoy moving along the road.

Staff officers pass by a car.

A column of troops of the Russian Imperial Army moves along a road during the fighting in Galicia in 1915, wet snow is falling.

An artillery crew is firing at the enemy.

A mortar battery is firing.

A unit of the Russian army is making its way through the reeds.

A Russian infantry unit in position is firing rifles in 1914. A view of the advancing cavalry (top).

A panorama of the bivouac of one of the horse artillery units of the Russian army.

An artillery team is moving through a meadow, a soldier is sleeping on the grass.

Teams with ammunition boxes are deployed.

Russian cavalrymen armed with pikes are on patrol.

A religious procession in front of the formation of one of the units of the Russian army before being sent to the front line.

General Dragomirov A. signs orders and puts flags on the map, sitting at a table in the corps headquarters, soldiers of the Austrian army are leaving the bivouac, a column of Russian infantry passes by.

The bodies of dead soldiers.

Russian soldiers in formation before the start of a prayer service.

Priests of various confessions during a church service at the location of one of the units of the Russian army.

A prayer service in one of the units of the Russian army stationed in the forest.

Awarding of soldiers before the formation.

Ceremony of awarding soldiers of the Russian army in the frontline zone.

Awarding of French officers.

Delegation of public and political figures during a trip to the front.

Distribution of gifts to soldiers.

Members of the delegation leave the military unit in cars, the cars drive past soldiers standing in formation.

Panorama of flooded barbed wire fences on the front line.

Bodies of killed soldiers in trenches and dugouts.

Cars on the station square in Lviv.

A car on a railway platform.

Local residents greet a passing convoy of military equipment, ambulances drive by.

An orator speaking at a soldiers’ rally.

Panorama of the rally.

An infantry unit of the Russian army is heading to the front line through a winter forest.

A Russian infantry unit is crossing a bridge on a river.

An orator giving a speech at a soldiers’ rally.

Kamenev L.B. speaking at a rally on the Field of Mars in Petrograd on May 1, 1917. Panorama of the rally on Theater Square in Moscow before the start of the State Conference on August 12, 1917. Cossacks in a cordon.

Participants in the conference are heading to the meeting at the Bolshoi Theater.

Panorama of a part of the Bolshoi Theater building.

Veteran of the Socialist Revolutionary Party Breshko-Breshkovskaya E.K. gets out of a car.

General Kaledin A.M., Ataman Karaulov M.A. and Rodzianko M.V. talk to each other before the start of the meeting.

Checking passes at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater.

Panorama of a part of Theater Square.

Participants in the conference before the entrance.

General Kornilov L.G. with officers in front of the entrance to the Bolshoi Theatre.

Kerensky A.F. surrounded by military personnel enters the building of the Bolshoi Theatre.

Participants of the meeting go to the meeting.

Participants of the meeting pose for a photographer.

An observer officer with binoculars in a trench on the Caucasian Front in the summer of 1916, soldiers take up a position, preparing to open rifle fire on the enemy.

Panorama of one of the positions of the 1st Caucasian Cavalry Corps of the Russian Army on the Caucasian Front before the start of the Khanekin-Hamadan defensive operation.

Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich at headquarters among officers.

Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich receives a report from the duty officer of the headquarters, greets the officers.

A car drives up to the headquarters, Nikolai Nikolaevich gets out of the car, greets the officers.

Nikolai Nikolaevich talks with each of the officers, greets the French representative.

Nikolai Nikolaevich gives orders to the officers of the headquarters, enters the headquarters.

Officers at the entrance to the headquarters (panorama).

The officers of the headquarters walk along one of the streets of Baranovichi, among them is Nikolai Nikolaevich.

Autumn landscape, in the distance you can see clouds of smoke from the fire of the cartridge factory.

A machine gun crew of the Russian army is preparing a firing position, an officer gives the command, the soldiers begin to prepare for battle, the machine gunners take their places.

The machine gun crew fires at enemy positions, the crew members bring ammunition, the machine gun is reloaded.

Horse artillery crews take up a firing position, the riders lead away the horses.

A unit of the Russian army at a bivouac before taking up positions opposite the Austrian forts.

Units of the Russian army leave their bivouac and head to positions near Przemysl, with the convoy and cavalry moving past.

Austrian troops march through the streets of Vienna after declaring war on Serbia.

Austrian artillery takes up firing positions.

Wounded and dead soldiers lie mixed together.

A German troop train moves along the road to Paris, with the body of a French soldier lying on the side of the road.

A German cavalry unit crosses a river on a pontoon bridge.

Views of a religious procession in one of the units of the Russian army on the front line in the winter of 1916. Soldiers and local residents gather for a prayer service.

View of the prayer service (panorama, from above).

The orchestra plays the anthem.

Russian sappers prepare pyroxylin checkers to blow up German barbed wire entanglements.

Strengthening the blasting checkers on the barbed wire entanglement.

The oath-taking ceremony of ensigns and privates before the battle.

Young officers approach the icons lying on the lecterns and kiss them.

Soldiers kiss the icon.

Cooking in the regimental field kitchen, a soldier chopping wood.

Washing the field kitchen with water from an ice hole, a cavalryman watering a horse.

During the regimental holiday, soldiers play various games and hold competitions.

One of the soldiers climbs up a pole, touches the top, and slides down.

Presentation of prizes to soldiers during the regimental holiday.

Soldiers receive valuable gifts.

Officers stand at the entrance to the administrative building.

Arrival of war invalids under the patronage of the American Red Cross.

Soldiers help the wounded to get off the cart, the wounded enter the hospital.

Arrival of a field kitchen for prisoners of war.

A Cossack unit passes along one of the streets of Lvov.

Russian soldiers on motorized railcars pass along a street on the outskirts of the city, a cavalryman gallops on horseback.

Panorama of one of the squares of Lvov, Russian soldiers and civilians on the square.

A column of captured Austrians moves along the road past the edge of a winter forest.

An officer takes rifles from surrendered Bosnian rangers.

One of the Russian cavalry units during a parade review.

Carrying out the banner in front of the formation.

The commander greets the horse artillerymen.

The cavalrymen with lances mount their saddles.

The line of cavalrymen dismounts.

The commander tours the units.

Nicholas II and General Alekseyev M.V. at headquarters among officers.

General Brusilv A.A. over a map during the development of a combat operation.

General Yudenich N.N. at his desk signing orders.

Commander of the Black Sea Fleet Admiral Kolchak A.V. on the deck of a warship.

Horses are unloaded from a Russian transport vessel using the overhead method.

Soldiers fasten the straps to the croup of another horse.

A horse is transported using an onboard crane.

A stretcher with the wounded is loaded onto a medical boat for evacuation.

The stretcher with the wounded is placed on the bottom of the launch, a nurse gives orders to the orderlies.

The wounded, orderlies and a nurse on a launch moving away from the shore.

Landing launches with Russian infantry approach the gently sloping shore.

An infantry unit lands on the shore.

The troops take up positions on the sandy beach.

An infantry unit of the Russian army takes up position on a sandy beach after landing on the shore.

The infantry advances forward.

Russian soldiers fire their rifles while lying down.

Infantry squads advance in dashes.

Nicholas II walks around the officers' line during his next visit to headquarters.