Remember this was before the October 1917 communist revolution. The Russian Emperor ruled the country in 1914. Russia joined the First World War on the side of Britain and France and against Germany. It left the war in 1917 after the monarchy ended in Russia.
Soldiers of the Tsar's army sent to the front.
Russian soldiers in 1914
1915. The retreat of the Russian army from Galicia. Soldiers leave a burning village.
Russian Emperor Nicholas II takes a sample of food in the 8-th Moscow Grenadier Regiment.
1915. Ships of Russia's Black Sea Fleet in battle
1916.The soldiers of the army fire a machine gun on an enemy airplane.
1916. Russian soldiers manning a gun relax after the capture of the fortress of Erzurum.
1916. Russian soldiers crossing a river.
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