The First World War. At the Front and in the Rear (1914-1918)

Russian soldiers captured during the East Prussian Offensive of 1914 line up in a column on the road.

Russian prisoners of war on a square in Konigsberg (panorama, from above).

Cossack patrol on patrol.

Map of the movement of German military trains from France to the East (animation).

A train crosses a bridge.

Russian cavalry patrol in East Prussia.

Movement of a Russian military convoy.

A German cavalry patrol, ambushed by Russian troops, retreats along the streets of one of the cities in East Prussia (staging).

People hastily load things onto carts and leave the city.

Street fighting between Russian and German soldiers (staging).

German soldiers storm one of the houses, the house is shelled with artillery, the walls collapse.

German artillery marches "at a trot".

A unit of German cavalry gallops to the place of combat contact.

Map of the Battle of Konigsberg (animation).

A column of retreating Russian troops in the winter of 1914. Parishioners in a church during a solemn mass on the occasion of the cleansing of East Prussia from Russian troops (staging).

Map of the retreat of Russian troops from East Prussia (animation).

Residents of Germany greet passing General Hindenburg P., throw flowers at his feet.

Map of the offensive of Russian troops in Galicia and the Carpathians in September 1914 (animation), movement of a military echelon.

Austrian artillerymen take up a firing position.

Austrian gun firing.

Austrian infantry attacks up the slope of a hill.

The crew of an Austrian heavy gun firing.

Archduke Karl at an observation post.

Artillery officers at a command and observation post.

Aiming a heavy Austrian gun.

Firing a heavy gun.

Scheme of the battle near Warsaw and the advance of the Russian army (animation).

A German cavalry unit makes a forced march in the mountains.

A German cavalry unit makes a forced march in the mountains.

German cavalry enters a village.

German horse artillery fording a river.

Map of the Battle of Warsaw in September 1914 (animation).

Soldiers' rally in Petrograd in the summer of 1917.

A Russian cavalry patrol gallops across the snowy steppe in the winter of 1914. Escorting Austrian prisoners of war.

A column of Austrian prisoners of war moves along a road in winter.

Austrian soldiers and officers who surrendered smoke near a field kitchen, a Russian officer approaches and takes rifles and cartridges from the soldiers.

The disarmed Austrians are led away.

Russian soldiers at the graves of their comrades.

Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich leaves headquarters at Headquarters.

Nicholas II during one of his visits to Headquarters, Headquarters officers and General M.V. Alekseyev accompany him.

Nicholas II gets out of an approaching car and receives a report from the duty officer.

Russian officers and soldiers in a trench at their positions.

Panorama of Baku and oil rigs.

A warship on a campaign.

Firing at the Turkish coast from a deck gun of a Black Sea Fleet ship, Russian shells exploding on the shore.

Russian landing force soldiers in a boat moving toward the shore, an officer showing the direction of movement.

Infantry landing on the shore, taking up positions.

Firing by a rifle chain from a prone position.

Russian cavalrymen in one of the settlements.

Flag on the bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress, panorama of part of the fortress territory.

Panorama of the bay on the Turkish coast and part of the coastal settlement (above).

Manifestation of solidarity of members of the Armenian diaspora in the USA with the Armenians of Transcaucasia.

Panorama of part of a city block.

Panorama and views of a destroyed firing position of the Turkish artillery.

A Russian artilleryman inspects a captured gun.

Cossacks destroy a Turkish telegraph line, knock down poles.

A Russian pilot and mechanics near an airplane during technical maintenance.

The airplane takes off.

The airplane flies over the airfield.

Views of the area (above).

Preparing an airplane for flight, the pilot putting on flight gear.

Starting the engine, the pilot takes his seat in the cockpit.

Views of the terrain and populated areas during the flight (above).

A Russian infantry unit crossing a stream on footbridges, taking up a position on the opposite bank.

Movement of cavalry units on the Transcaucasian Front.

Before takeoff, the pilot checks the condition of the bombs, mechanics load the bombs into the airplane.

Views of the terrain during the flight (above).

Soldiers boarding landing boats moored alongside a ship.

Loading the wounded onto a boat.

Unloading horses from a ship into a boat using a lifting mechanism.

Soldiers in a landing boat.

Ruins of houses in a combat zone.

Transportation of a wounded Russian military official who was captured, accompanied by a nurse and an escort.

Reception of a wounded man in one of the German hospitals, paperwork.

Russian soldiers captured by Austria are vaccinated.

Issuance of documents to Russian military doctors who arrived to examine captured compatriots through the Red Cross.

Sending a German military echelon to the front.

German soldiers about to board the back of a truck.

The crew of a German heavy machine gun on the sidewalk.

Panorama of part of a city block.

Sentry at the entrance to the bridge.

Panorama of a bridge with a destroyed span in Belgium.

A unit of the German army marches through the streets of a Belgian city.

Soldiers on the Grand Place in Brussels in front of the Town Hall.

Panorama of the square and buildings on the Grand Place.

German convoy on the Grand Place (panorama).

Panorama and views of the Grand Place, German soldiers on the square.

Parade of one of the units of the Reichswehr.

Panorama of Liege in August 1914 (top).

Destruction in the Liege fortress as a result of the storming of the city by German troops, soldiers and officers inspect the ruins.

Panoramas and views of the destruction of Fort Loncin.

A German soldier picks lice out of his undershirt.

Shaving of German soldiers in the field.

An officer passes by the shaving soldiers, the soldiers jump up.

Destruction in Liege (panoramas).

German soldiers at the bivouac.

Local residents dig trenches and ditches under the supervision of German soldiers.

Soldiers get lunch from the field kitchen.

Kneading dough in a field bakery.

The process of baking bread.

Inspection of the work of the military field bakery.

A German artillery unit on the city square.

Artillery guns with limbers standing in a row (panorama).

Panorama of a castle wall with broken windows.

Artillery guns in the castle courtyard.

Belgian artillery guns captured as trophies.

A father sees his children off to school in a German city.

A brother and sister walk down the street.

The children walk to school and stop.

An infantry company passes through an intersection.

A girl runs to greet the soldiers, small children march at the head of an infantry company.

Children on the street, the dial of a tower clock.

Children run into a school building.

An infantry company marches down the street.

Surrender of weapons in Belgium by local residents, a boy tries to hand over a toy gun.

Seeing off German soldiers to the front in August 1914, wives and mothers walk next to the soldiers' formation, map with plans for the encirclement of Paris (animation, combined filming).

Combat operations of German troops on the Western Front in 1914. Refugees on the roads of France.

German soldiers descend from a ship along the gangway.

A column of British troops passes through a populated area in France.

The movement of a column of Allied military trucks during the transfer of personnel.

German troops march along the roads of France.

French heavy artillery crossing a pontoon bridge.

A French heavy artillery battery takes up a firing position.

A column of Parisian taxis with soldiers heads to the front near the Marne in September 1914. A soldier next to a taxi driver.

The movement of a column of taxis.

Entente troops firing heavy artillery guns, map of the Battle of the Marne against the background of a newsreel (combined filming).

Panorama of a field ammunition depot.

Panorama of a pile of spent artillery ammunition casings.

A British artilleryman brings a large-caliber shell to its final loaded state.

A unit of the French army before loading onto a train.

A train with artillery ammunition passes.

Refugees leave the combat zone.

General Hindenburg with staff officers.

German artillery and cavalry march along the roads of France.

Combat operations on the Western Front, actions of infantry and artillery of the opposing sides.

Russian soldiers captured in East Prussia (panorama).

Residents of East Prussia throw flowers at the feet of Hindenburg as he passes.

Presentation of flowers to German officers.

Panorama of warships of the German fleet.

The admiral boards a boat.

Officers on the bridge of a warship.

Stokers making steam.

Units and assemblies in the engine room at work.

A destroyer is getting into wake formation.

View of the bow of a warship (top).

A German squadron in wake formation (top).

A German battleship with an airship moored to it (top).

The flag of the German Navy on the topmast of a warship.

Warships on a campaign.

The ship's artillery turret is turning.

Mechanics in the engine room.

A German warship is maneuvering.

Sailors at the rangefinder post.

German ships firing, turret gun crews at work.

Sinking British warships.

German ships on a campaign.

Torpedoes being launched from onboard tubes.

Ships hit by torpedoes.

Extinguishing a fire on board.

Panorama of the deck of a ship submerging in the water (top).

A warship turning upside down, sailors falling into the water, the signal being given by the soldiers.

The bottom of a capsized ship, sailors trying to save themselves.

Crew members of a sunken ship in the water, the beginning of a rescue operation.

Photographs of destroyed positions on the Western Front, corpses of soldiers in trenches, captured fortifications (above).

Photographs of military chaplains and soldiers during a field mass in the armies of the Central Powers and the Entente.

Unloading a wounded Russian soldier from an ambulance van.

The interior of a church converted into a temporary hospital.

German soldiers during the funeral of their fallen comrades (newsreel and photograph).

Everyday life and rest of German cavalrymen.

Photograph of German officers talking to American journalists.

Shaving German soldiers in the field.

An officer passes by the shaving soldiers, the soldiers jump up.

A soldier picks lice out of his shirt.

Photographs of engineers in 1915, including Karl Liebknecht.

Photograph of Churchill W. in uniform next to a French general.

A column of Austrian prisoners of war, captured on the Eastern Front, passes.

Women at machine tools in the workshops of military factories.

Women work on a conveyor belt for the production of artillery ammunition.

Women packaging ready-made hand grenades.

People stand in lines for food on the streets of Petrograd and Moscow.

The face of the Russian industrialist Vtorov.

Rockefeller at the car.

The parade of Russian guards units in Krasnoe Selo in July 1914. The telegraph machine in operation.

British telegraph operators at the communications center.

The text of the decree of Wilhelm II on general mobilization in Germany.

People read the text of the decree, posted on the wall of the building.

Views of the streets of Berlin after the announcement of general mobilization, people greet the passing troops.

Sending a military echelon to the front.

Reports of the beginning of the war in German newspapers.

Views of the Reichstag in Berlin on August 4, 1914. Reichstag deputies stand and applaud the Kaiser's demand for war credits.

Caricature of German militarism.

Government officials in frock coats and top hats pass before the Kaiser in ceremonial formation.

The leader of the German Social Democrats Karl Kautsky speaks from the rostrum.

Vandervelde's speech in the Belgian parliament.

Photographs of French socialists who supported their governments after the declaration of war.

Photo portrait of G.V. Plekhanov.

Panorama of the patriotic demonstration on Palace Square in Petrograd in August 1914. View and panorama of the State Duma meeting hall in the Tauride Palace.

Photographs of Bolshevik deputies Petrovsky, Muranov, Badayev, Samoilov, Shagov, who voted against war credits and were exiled to hard labor.

Prisoners being disembarked from a train car.

Photograph of telegraph operators at a communications center.

Photograph of the Chief of Staff of the Russian Army, General M.V. Telegraph operators at a communications center.

Passenger train in the mountains of Switzerland.

Landscapes of Switzerland.

Photograph of central Bern.

Drawing depicting Lenin and his comrades-in-arms during a meeting on a walk in the mountains.

A heavy artillery gun fires on the Western Front.

View of part of a damaged building.

Women sitting by the ruins of a house.

Views of destroyed historical buildings in Europe.

Photos of Zimmerwald.

View of the ice-covered Neva near the Peter and Paul Fortress in Petrograd in January-February 1917. Clearing the streets of snow.

Russian soldiers at the front during a rest period, it is snowing (panorama).

A sentry in a trench at the front.

Demonstrations on the streets of Petrograd during the February Revolution.

Corpses of killed soldiers lying along the road.

Panorama of corpses lying in the snow, soldiers of the funeral team digging a mass grave.

View of part of the mass grave.

Corpses are thrown off a cart near the dug grave.

A corpse covered in snow.

A stray dog tears a dead horse with its teeth.

A blackened corpse covered in snow.

Nicholas II and members of his family during a ceremonial event before the start of the war.

Photograph by G.E. Rasputin.

Solemn procession of the clergy in the Moscow Kremlin during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov.

Soldiers of the Life Guards Pavlovsky Regiment march in parade formation.

Arrested sailors board a carriage.

A sentry on a barge guards the arrested.

Prisoners behind bars on a barge.

Soldiers' rally in Petrograd in the summer of 1917 (panorama).

Meeting of Russian and German officers on the front line during fraternization.

Meeting of the Soviet delegation in December 1917 at the Brest-Litovsk railway station, Kamenev L.B., Ioffe A.A. exiting the carriage.

Members of the German and Austrian delegations go to the White Palace for negotiations.

German Foreign Minister von Kühlmann signs the peace treaty on March 3, 1918. Wilhelm II and the Hetman of Ukraine P.P. Skoropadsky during a meeting at Headquarters in Spa, Belgium in August 1918. Parade of the Serdyukov Regiment in Kyiv in 1918. Panorama of the formation of a German military unit standing in a meadow in April 1918.

Photograph of the bullet-riddled and bloodied uniform of Archduke Ferdinand, killed in Sarajevo.

The funeral of Archduke Ferdinand, the movement of the funeral procession.

The coffin with the body of the Archduke is carried into the cathedral for the funeral service.

The inhabitants of Berlin welcome the carriage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who interrupted his sea voyage and returned to Berlin at the end of July 1914. The inhabitants of Berlin filling the streets and squares of the city.

The inhabitants of Berlin welcome the units of the Prussian Guard passing through the streets and Wilhelm II riding in a carriage.

The parade of German troops on the streets of Berlin.

The inhabitants of France see off French soldiers to the front.

Parades of troops of the states entering the First World War.

Troops in Trafalgar Square in London.

A column of volunteers passes by.

King George V greets the troops from his horse.

Parade of British military units leaving for the front.

Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire and his entourage leaving the palace, the Sultan getting into a carriage.

The Sultan's departure from the palace.

Mehmed V and a German general getting into a car.

Views of a ceremonial event in Constantinople and a troop parade in early August 1914. Turkish troops marching along the docks before loading onto ships.

A Belgian poster from the beginning of World War I. German troops moving along the street of a Belgian city.

Panorama of part of a destroyed city block.

Refugees on the roads of Belgium, fleeing the German advance.

German troops on the street of a Belgian city.

Serbian officers at a command and observation post.

View of part of a Serbian artillery firing position.

Shells exploding on the ground during target sighting, artillery officers watching the explosions.

Officers at a command and observation post.

The folding up of the British troops' camp, formation.

A convoy column on the road.

Parade of British troops.

General Hindenburg with staff officers.

Inspection of German military units in a field.

Parade of German troops.

Troop train at the platform.

Text of General Gallieni's appeal to the army and residents of Paris during the German offensive in 1914. A column of Parisian taxis delivering soldiers to the front lines on the Marne in September 1914. A column of taxis with soldiers drives through the streets of the city (top).

Heavy artillery guns of the Entente and Central Powers firing during the fighting on the Western Front, shells exploding.

Columns of German prisoners of war moving along the roads of France.

German prisoners of war behind barbed wire.

German prisoners of war chewing the bread given to them.

King George V presents awards to soldiers and officers who distinguished themselves in battle.

General Joffre presents awards to French officers and soldiers of the colonial troops, personally congratulating each of them.