On the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, the Moscow House of Photography has prepared a large-scale international project that brings together the world’s leading museums, and public and private archives, depicting the war through the eyes of those who fought on all sides of the conflict.
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Courtesy the Polish Army Museum, Warsaw
On the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, the Moscow House of Photography has prepared a large-scale international project that brings together for the first time the world’s leading museums, and public and private archives, depicting the war through the eyes of those who fought on all sides of the conflict. // Infantry of the 1st Brigade of the Polish Legions enters Kowel, 1915
Droits reserves, Archives of Renault Company
Germany declared war on the Russian Empire on 1 August 1914. An estimated two million Russian soldiers died in action, while the total loss of life amounted to some 3.5 million // A workshop for the manufacture of shells, France, 1916
Photothèque CICR (DR)
For the Russian Empire, participation in the First World War culminated in the revolution of 1917, which developed into civil war and led to the signing of a separate peace with Germany which put the country in the camp of the losers in the war. // The Swedish Red Cross facilitates the exchange of war prisoners detained in Russia and Siberia for disabled German and Austrian ex-servicemen, Hallsberg railway station, Sweden, 1915-1918
Courtesy Imperial War Museum, London
In the Soviet period – and until recently – the First World War was one of the forgotten wars, receiving scant public attention // A female war worker carefully paints the roundel on the wing of an SE5A aircraft at the Austin Motor Company factory in Birmingham, September 1918
Courtesy Imperial War Museum, London
British and Russian officers of the RNAS Armoured Car Squadron in Galicia prior to the Russian offensive of July 1917.
The Khoroshilov collection
The Khoroshilov collection
Collection of P.V. Khoroshilov
Infantry equipped with high-pressure gas masks, having taken the “Hun” trench, fire on the retreating enemy
The Khoroshilov collection
The Khoroshilov collection
Courtesy Museum of Military History, Vienna
Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife riding in a car along the Appel Quay (Saraevo) shortly before his assassination, 28 June 1914
Private collection, France
St Felix, German prisoners at a camp in Aisne, 24.10.1917
Droits reserves, Archives of Renault Company
Column of Renault FT-17 tanks at the front line, France, 1917
Private collection, France
Englishmen in Belgium
Photothèque CICR (DR)
A nurse from the French Red Cross helps a beggar, Germany, 1914-1918
Albert Kahn Museum, Archives of the Planet Collection
Paul Castelnau, Russian soldiers outside a grocery shop, Place des Marchés, Reims, France, 11 March 1917
Courtesy ECPAD, France
Pierre-Paul Castelnau, Entrance to the citadel. Verdun, Meuse. 27 October 1917
Photothèque CICR (DR)
International Prisoners of War Agency. Missing Personnel Department. 1914-1918
Private collection, France
Unknown artist, Senegalese
Courtesy ECPAD, France
Jacques Moreau, A serviceman on leave dines in the Gare de l’Est military canteen. Paris, January 1917
Photothèque CICR (DR)
Narva, a military burial, 1914-1918, Russia, July 1921
