Russia and Europe on the Eve of World War I (1910-1914)

Employees of a bank at work.

Gold bars in a bank vault.

Unloading sacks of coins in the presence of a policeman in the USA. Participants in a festive country event get out of a carriage and descend from an imperial.

Men in top hats and tuxedos and ladies in elegant dresses pass by.

General Joffre and the French Minister of War Millerand during a troop review.

Joffre and Millerand talk to the military.

Representatives of French industrial capital and ministers pass by the guard of honor into the palace.

The Prime Minister of France Briand A. and President Poincaré R. get into the carriage, the carriage moves off.

King George V of Great Britain in a carriage before the start of a ceremonial procession.

The royal carriage passes.

The King gets out of the carriage.

The Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I greets the military during a troop review.

Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary during a review of troops.

Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany inspects the Prussian Guard.

Wilhelm II reviews a military parade.

Troops march in front of the Emperor.

Representatives of the German civil service in top hats and frock coats march in parade formation in front of the Emperor.

British soldiers during training in overcoming enemy field fortifications and bayonet combat.

A unit of the French army during a parade in Paris.

Parade of the Imperial Guard in Berlin.

British soldiers training to overcome enemy field fortifications and bayonet fighting.

A French army unit during a parade in Paris.

The Imperial Guard parade in Berlin.

A German airship is taken out of a hangar.

Aircraft at an airfield during preparation for flights.

A pilot puts on overalls and a helmet.

An airplane with a rotating propeller.

View of an ammunition production workshop.

Manufacture of large-caliber artillery ammunition.

Manufacture of artillery gun barrels.

Manufactured ammunition in finished goods warehouses.

Panorama of an artillery barrel production workshop (from above).

Launching of a French warship.

Warships at anchor.

Emperor Nicholas II inspects the formation of the Life Guards Cuirassier Regiment on the platform of Tsarskoye Selo Station.

Minister of War of the Russian Empire V.A. Sukhomlinov listens to an officer explaining during an inspection of vehicles intended for military needs.

Sukhomlinov inspects a truck.

Smoking factory chimneys.

View of one of the factory buildings.

Factory employees go out into the street.

Russian industrialist Vtorov N.A. sits in a chair.

Workers in the shops at their machines.

Production processes in the shops of heavy and light industry enterprises.

Manufacture of ammunition by workers of military factories.

Finished ammunition stacked in a stack (panorama).

Warships moored to the factory wall.

Performing an exercise in bayonet fighting by a soldier of the Russian Imperial Army.

Soldiers performing rifle techniques on command from an officer.

An artillery battery conducts target practice.

An infantry field on the square (above).

Military units formed from student youth march along the city street.

Students of gymnasiums and real schools march in formation with rifles on their shoulders.

The trustee of the educational district makes a speech to armed gymnasium students.

View of one of the Russian warships.

Sailors scrub the deck under the supervision of the officer of the watch.

Lunch in the officers' mess hall of one of the warships of the Russian Imperial Navy.

Sailors in formation during prayer on board the ship.

Sailors put on their hats after the prayer, the duty officers run out of formation.

Officers during a rest in the mess hall.

The bow turret of the battleship turns.

Warships on the march.

Boats on board the ship.

A wave overboard.

Russian Ambassador to France A.P. Izvolsky leaves the palace and gets into a carriage.

Izvolsky's carriage drives along a Paris street accompanied by an honor guard.

French President R. Poincaré, together with Emperor Nicholas II and members of the imperial family, inspect the formation of the guards unit in a carriage at the summer camps in Tsarskoye Selo in July 1914. Poincaré talks with the Empress before the start of the Imperial Life Guards parade in Tsarskoe Selo.

Parade of Guards infantry and cavalry units in Tsarskoe Selo.