Hello, all! I've got what may be a doozy. My great-grandfather was a deserter from the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War. According to the family story (I know, I know, all things taken with a grain of salt), he was being held under armed guard in preparation for a court martial and likely execution for insubordination (long story).

Russia fought the Crimean War (1853-56) with Europe's largest standing army, and Russia's population was greater than that of France and Britain combined, but it failed to defend its territory, the Crimea, from attack.This failure shocked the Russians and demonstrated to them the inadequacy of their weaponry and transport and their economic backwardness relative to the …

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This article is devoted to the main stages and areas of military planning in Russia on the eve of WWI which led to a compromise between supporters of defensive and offensive strategies in 1912. Among the key factors considered by officers of the Russian General Staff were the geostrategic space, the time required for general mobilization and the numbers of troops to be …

23/05/2017 · The Imperial Russian army of 1914. With 14 million peasant drafts lead by an officer corps one percent of that size, the Russian army was short of every single thing except soldiers, bravery and enemies. When the guns of august blew that began the Great War that we now call world war one, the army of Tsar was struggling to reform its feet of clay.

28/06/2018 · Nineteenth-century Russian society consisted of a distinct class system where the labor of those in the lower classes supported everyone else. Those in the lowest class, the peasantry, made up the bulk of Russian society, and ongoing social strife contributed to the eventual fall of the monarchy.

WARFARE – 1750 to 1900. Improvements in weapons technology, fueled by the Industrial Revolution, helped make warfare in the late 18th and 19th centuries more deadly and sophisticated. Civilians were drawn into wars more deeply than before, both as targets of enemy forces and as conscripts bound to military service.

Mikhail Osipovich Koyalovich (1828-1891), a well-known Russian historian and since 1862 a professor in the Religious Academy in St. Petersburg, published his anti-Polish and anti-Semitic "Lectures on West Russian History, " in which he idealized the role of the Orthodox Church in Lithuanian history.

Russian Mennonite Genealogical Resources. Russian Royal Family. The Brest Ghetto Passport Archive people from Russia and Eastern Europe; murdered in WW2 1941-45. Torza, Hungary to Russia 1794-1804. Village Grimm names 1900. Volga: The Lower Volga Villages Saratov, Volga, Russia. Volga: Dobrinka Surnames.

RUHL-00. Moritz Rühl was a German lithographer and publisher based in Leipzig, Germany (Formally Saxony). Using various artists his company produced a great number of pocket sized depictions of military uniforms of the world. Published primarily between the 1890s and up to 1942 his works became very popular. Uniformology has a large number of ...