The Russian Empire implemented some military reforms during the decade that predated the WWI. Yet in 1914, the Russian army was ill-equipped for a major war. Russian factories couldn’t produce ...
On the snowy sidewalk of a drab residential street in Moscow, blood, soot and the mangled remnants of an electric scooter marked the spot where a top Russian general was assassinated — and ...
Two Russian armies invaded German East Prussia in August 1914. Rennenkampf's First Army was to converge with ... on 23 August Prittwitz was replaced by General von Hindenburg whose chief of ...