#great war

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Великий князь в годы Первой мировой “ Grand Duke Mikhail (December 4, 1878, to June 13, 1918) was the Tsar’s younger brother. He’s the tall fellow in the great coat. He was killed by the Bolsheviks.

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Grenadier Guards at sniping practice on Wimbledon Common.

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Mikhail Drozdovsky (7 October 1881 – 1 January 1919) was a Russian army general and one of the military leaders of the anti-Bolshevik White movement during the Russian Civil War.

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Grand Duchess Olga was the honorary colonel of the 3rd Elizavetgradsky Hussars Regiment. Grand Duchess Tatiana was the honorary colonel of the 8th Voznesensky Uhlan Regiment!

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The Tsar, Grand-Duchesses Tatiana, Maria, Olga, and Anastasia. Remembered today.

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Nearly 22 Million people died during the Great War. Today, 17 July 1918 marks the anniversary of the death of eleven of them. The Tsar, his Empress, their five children, and four retainers were gunned down in an act of extreme cowardice. After all, these murders were just a drop in the bucket.

Pierre Gilliard said “The Tsar was neither condemned nor even judged - and by whom could he have been? - he was assassinated. And what of the Tsarina, the children, Dr. Botkin, and the three servants who died with them? But what does it matter to the murderers? They are sure of impunity; the bullet killed, the flame destroyed, and the earth covered what the fire could not devour. Oh, they are very easy in their minds; no one will talk, for they are united by infamy. And it seems to be with reason that commissary Volkov can exclaim, "The world will never know what we have done with them!"

These men were mistaken.

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“A Street in Arras” is a 1918 watercolor and graphite painting by American artist John Singer Sargent, created during his assignment as an official war artist on the Western Front in August 1918.