Eastern Front: Media
World War I [1914-1918]
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Eastern Front
Map of European Russia (c. 1900), including Poland and Finland, from the 10th edition...
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Carpathian Mountains; cross section of the Western Carpathians
Regional division of the Carpathian Mountains (top) and a geologic cross section...
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Eastern Front; World War I
Russian officer saying goodbye to his family, Siberia, 1914.
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Eastern Front
Austro-Hungarian field battery conducting exercises, 1914.
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William II and Conrad, Freiherr von Hötzendorf
German emperor William II meeting with Conrad, Freiherr (baron) von Hötzendorf, c....
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Nicholas
Russian Grand Duke Nicholas.
From The New York Times Current History: The European War, Volume 1, 1915
Russian troops; World War I
Russian troops in the trenches at the East Prussian frontier.
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Battle of Tannenberg
Russian prisoners captured at the Battle of Tannenberg, August 1914.
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German Empire; World War I
(From left) Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, Kaiser William II, and Gen. Erich...
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Eastern Front
German transport columns passing through Skole, Galicia (now in Ukraine), 1914.
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Eastern Front
German officers riding down a street in Mława, Poland, August 1914.
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German soldiers breaking ice around a temporary bridge over the Angrapa River in...
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German mobile telephone station near Warsaw during World War I, 1915.
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August von Mackensen; Eastern Front
Gen. August von Mackensen and staff officers fording a stream in Poland, c. 1914.
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Eastern Front
German field kitchen at Pillkallen (now Dobrovolsk, Russia), winter 1914–15.
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Eastern Front
German column passing through Pillkallen, East Prussia (now Dobrovolsk, Russia),...
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Eastern Front
Russian Orthodox priest praying over wounded soldiers in a makeshift hospital on...
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Prince Eitel Friedrich and an Austrian officer interrogating Russian prisoners on...
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Eastern Front; World War I
German sanitary unit advancing toward Lublin, Poland, 1915.
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Eastern Front
German baggage train near Skaudvilė (now in Lithuania), during the German advance...
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German occupation of Libau (now Liepāja, Latvia), May 1915.
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Eastern Front
German soldier sleeping in a trench near Dvinsk (now Daugavpils, Latvia), c. 1915.
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Eastern Front
Map of the Eastern Front campaigns from the 13th edition of the Encyclopædia...
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Eastern Front
German officer speaking with civilians in Sochaczew, Poland. The town's entrance...
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Eastern Front; Warsaw
Residents of German-occupied Warsaw waiting at a landing pier on the Vistula, c....
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Russian peasant being interrogated by a German officer on the Eastern Front during...
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Eastern Front
Archduke Friedrich, commander in chief of the Austro-Hungarian army, reviewing German...
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Eastern Front
An Austrian artillery battery on the Eastern Front, c. 1916.
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Turkey in Europe
Map of the Balkans (c. 1900) from the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
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August von Mackensen
August von Mackensen, 1915.
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Eastern Front
Romanian dead on the road near Kronstadt (Braşov) in 1916, during World War I.
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Maurice Sarrail
Gen. Maurice Sarrail climbing into his plane on the Salonika front during World War...
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Eastern Front
Russian troops fighting in a village in Volhynia, northwestern Ukraine, during World...
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Eastern Front; Russian Revolution
Russia's all-women “Battalion of Death” returning from special services at St. Isaac's...
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Aleksandr Kerensky
Aleksandr Kerensky, 1917.
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Czechoslovak Legion
Soldiers of the Czechoslovak Legion aboard a train on the Trans-Siberian Railway,...
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Russian Civil War; Czechoslovak Legion
Troops of the Czechoslovak Legion in Vladivostok, c. 1918.
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Józef Piłsudski
Józef Piłsudski (center) with Polish soldiers.
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October Revolution
First Days of the October Revolution, painting by Georgy Konstantinovich...
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Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin addressing the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets in Petrograd,...
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treaties of Brest-Litovsk
Delegates at negotiations for the treaties of Brest-Litovsk, 1918.
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Treaties of Brest-Litovsk
Front page of The Daily Mirror reporting Russia's signing of the Treaty...
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World War I; Eastern Front
Mourner at a Russian military cemetery in Suwałki, Poland.
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Eastern Front
Russian prisoners of war passing a German cemetery in Kompina, Poland, during World...
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