Heroes of the First World War. 2nd edition. Bondarenko V.V.

There is no more silent, more sunk, more cursed and forgotten war in our country than World War I (1914-1918). Gorky is the fate of her heroes. Due to historical circumstances, they did not wait for any anniversary medals, nor pensions, or museums, or eternal lights, no flowers on Victory Day... This book is a modest tribute to those who did not return from the bloody fields of Galicia, Volyn, Poland, Lithuania , Latvia, Belarus, over whom the cold waters of the Baltic or the Black Sea closed forever. The reader's attention is presented twelve essays - brief biographies of people who forever inscribed their names in the history of the First World War. This is an outstanding commander and commander of a warship, the son of the Grand Duke and a simple Don Cossack, the first fighter-fighter and sister of mercy in Russia, a military priest and a dashing hussar officer... The biography of each hero is traced in a close relationship with the fate of Russia, which is why the reading is formed by reading A holistic idea of ​​the great and tragic era. The book is equipped with applications, from which the reader will learn a lot of useful things about the organization and structure of the Russian imperial army, military ranks and awards.