On August 1, 1914 the German Empire declared war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I, one of the biggest and deadliest conflicts in human history. Russian Empire's participation in World War I – in this gallery by TASS.
Russian Empire in World War I
On August 1, 1914 the German Empire declared war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I
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The First World War started on July 28, 1914. Russia entered the war with its first invasion of East Prussia on August 17, 1914
© ITAR-TASS/reproduction by Boris Kavashkin Russian Emperror Nikolai II listens to a report
© Fotokhronika TASS/Panov S. Russian marines during the First World War
© Fotokhronika TASS/Reproduction by Vladimir Kazantsev The Russian government collapsed in March 1917, and in November 1918 the Austro-Hungarian empire agreed to an armistice
© ITAR-TASS/reproduction by Valery Bushukhin