Russian Cossack soldiers, eastern front, WW1
Russian Cossack soldiers on horseback on the eastern front during the First World War. It is suggested that they are rallying to a counter-revolutionary call from General Kornilov, in September 1917, who was planning to march on Petrograd (St Petersburg) and seize control
Picture No
14105277
Media ID
45862544
Size
7189px x 4187px
(4.0MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Photograph in Blood Stained Russia by Captain Donald C Thompson, 1918, p186
Date
circa 1917
