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by Norman Stone


  New York Committee (trade), 155, 156

  Nicholas, Grand Duke, 20, 24, 25, 27, 52, 53 n., 58, 96, 119, 174, 187, 192, 198

  Nicholas II, Tsar, 17, 20, 24, 51, 143, 198, 204;

  Stavka, 187, 190, 191–3

  Nivelle offensive, 236

  Niemen river, 33, 95, 187

  Niemen Armee, 171, 184, 185

  Nobel company, 203

  Nordbahn, 78

  November Revolution, 218

  Novo-Alexandriya, 98, 99

  Novogeorgievsk (fortress), 30, 32, 55, 95, 104, 149, 174, 175, 179;

  fall of, 180–2

  Novogródok, 189

  Nuremberg, 164

  Nurses, 169 n.

  Oberbefehlshaber Ost, 269

  Obolenski, Prince, 163

  Obruchev, 33

  Observers, 106, 114, 125–7, 132, 177, 183, 204, 226, 249, 253, 265

  Octobrists, 196, 199, 202, 203

  Odessa, 140, 141, 157, 202

  Officers, 21, 52–3, 192–3;

  officer-men relationships, 112, 165, 167–8, 271, 274, 276

  Officers’ corps, 19

  Okna, 252, 253

  Oldenburg, Prince, 197

  Olsufievs, 293 n.

  Olokhov, 143, 174, 175, 225

  Oltenia, 279

  Olyka, 250

  Opalin, 181

  Opatów, 97, 168

  Opolcheniye, 166, 168, 214 n., 216

  Oranovski, 67, 172

  Orenburg regiment, 118

  Orlov, 95 n.

  Orlov-Davydov, 292

  Orsha, 192

  Osowiec (fortress), 30, 32, 117, 118, 119, 149, 174, 181, 182, 183

  Ostroleka, 182

  Paic, 242

  Palatinate, 218

  Paléologue, 221

  Palitsyn, F. F., 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 175, 193 n.

  Pan-Slavism, 35, 37

  Pares, Bernard, 144

  Paris, 42

  Paul, Grand Duke, 225, 261

  Paulings, 158

  Peasants, 20, 219, 285, 293—4

  Peninsular War, 265

  Pernau, 186

  Peter Ferdinand, Archduke, 87

  Petrograd, 101, 153, 157, 166, 169, 185, 187, 195, 199, 201, 202, 204, 206, 234, 246, 282, 284, 292, 296;

  factories, 160 n.

  Petropavlovski (fortress), 25

  Petrozavodsk, 158

  Pflanzer-Baltin, 251, 252, 253, 254, 258

  Pflug, 68, 117, 226, 237

  ‘Phalanx’, 270, 271

  Pinsk, 182, 184, 189, 257, 260

  Platsdarmy, 238, 241

  Plehve, 22, 86, 87, 88

  Pleshkov, 228, 230, 236, 237

  Pless, 128, 139, 185

  Plevna, 64, 224

  Ploiesti, 280

  Plotnikov, 199

  Podborze, 80

  Poincaré, R. N. L., 37

  Pokrovski, 156

  Poland, 32, 33, 41, 42, 54, 70, 99, 107, 111, 116, 172 ff., 195, 209, 218, 269, 298;

  Russo-Polish war, 236

  Polivanov, 26, 31, 183, 187, 191, 197, 198, 199

  Poltava, 292

  Port Arthur, naval battle, 17, 23

  Ports, Russian, 157 ff.

  Posen (fortress), 55

  Postawy Woods, 230, 236

  Postovski, 53, 58

  Potiorek, 74, 77, 79

  Poznania, 96

  Prague, 77, 126

  Prince Igor, 53 n.

  Pripyat river, 177, 178, 182, 188, 232, 234, 245, 246, 258, 268, 271, 273

  Prisoners-of-war, 87, 91, 106, 120, 139–40, 158, 165, 168, 174, 246, 253, 259–60, 281

  Prittwitz, 60, 61, 67, 82

  Prodameta, 200–3 passim, 205, 206, 208

  Produgol, 200

  Prodvagon, 200

  Progressive Bloc, 194, 196, 202

  Providence Russe, 206

  Provisional Government, 195, 218, 282–3, 289, 290

  Prussia: reserve army, 212;

  troops, 64;

  War Ministry, 39

  Prussian Guard, 138

  Prut river, 253

  Przasnysz, 119, 180

  Przemyśl, 53 n., 78, 79, 90, 95, 96, 111, 120, 122, 140, 141, 181;

  retreat from, 100;

  surrender, 114–16;

  taken by Austro-Germans, 142

  Pskov, 185

  Pultusk (fortress), 180

  Pustovoytenko, 192

  Putilov, 162, 196, 200;

  factories, 150, 157, 211

  Putnik, 79

  Pyot, Captain, 163, 197, 202

  Quarter-Master-General, 27, 52

  Radetzky, 242, 254

  Radko-Dmitriev, 21, 129, 136–140, 226

  Radymno, 140, 236

  Ragoza, 228, 260

  Raguzo-Suszczewski, 153

  RAOAZ company, 151, 152, 199

  Rasputin, 192

  Rattel, 28

  Rauch, 262

  Rawa Ruska, 89, 90

  Rawka river, 108

  Red Army, 166, 197 n., 210, 216, 231;

  conscription, 214;

  Tsarist officers, 28, 233

  Refugees, 183–4

  Reichstag, 39, 40

  Remington, 152

  René, Prince, 242

  Reni, 279

  Rennenkampf, 27, 48, 58, 60, 62, 66, 67, 68, 95 n., 104, 106, 144

  Rerberg, 132

  Reval, 203

  Revdinskoye factory, 197 n.,

  Rifles, 150, 160

  Riga, 172, 184, 187, 198, 282.

  ‘ Riga-Schaulen group’, 59

  Rîmnicu-Sǎrat, 280

  Rödiger, 22, 26

  Rodno, 187

  Rodzyanko, 196

  Romania, 37, 76, 93, 108, 120, 138, 140, 222, 263, 284;

  army, 128, 264–5, 274, 277;

  border, 247;

  railways, 279;

  sacked, 277;

  War on Austria 264–5, 270–8

  ‘Romanian Marne’, 280

  Rominte river, 60

  Ronzhin, 28, 52, 135

  Roshchakovski, 159 n.

  Rostov-on-the-Don, 203

  Rovaniemi, 159 n.

  Rovano, 239

  Rovno, 53, 190, 242, 247

  Rozan (fortress), 180

  Rozwadów, 178.

  Ruščuk, 280

  Russian army, 29, 37–40, 44, 50–1, 58–62, 67, 68, 74, 98, 104, 185, 212, 222, 223, 260, 300–1;

  III, 100 ff, 130–1;

  V, 184, 187;

  IX, 84, 87, 251;

  X, 67, 96, 116 ff., 187;

  new I, 100;

  new II, 189;

  new (1916) 227, 231, 233;

  of the Danube, 279;

  Guard, 112, 116, 142, 177, 179, 186, 255–6, 261–2, 270, 271;

  artillery, 210, 229, 240;

  cavalry, 36, 50, 90, 95 n., 97–8, 101, 117–18, 172, 188–9, 228, 236, 279;

  conscription, 212, 213, 214, 285, 292;

  losses, 107, 118, 140, 178, 180, 182, 185, 187, 215, 230, 261;

  mobilisation, 41–3, 45, 48, 72, 75, 76;

  retreat from Poland, 176–81, 182 ff.;

  supplies, 39, 49, 51, 104, 170, 204, 212, 222,

  for cavalr 135–6

  Russian Bank for Foreign Commerce, 207

  Russian navy, 24, 172, 279;

  Fleets, 17, 18,

  Black Sea, 29, 31, 222

  Russian railways, 32–3, 40–3, 95, 133–5, 156–7, 188, 205, 298–300

  Russian satellite states, 218

  Ruthene troops, 122, 126, 127, 136, 241, 262, 272

  Ruzski, 27, 28, 85, 87–90 passim, 94–101 passim, 104, 105, 107, 108, 111, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 186, 187, 189, 198, 226

  Ryabushinski, 199, 203, 206, 210

  Rzhevski, 26

  Saar, 218

  St. George order, 136

  Saint Petersburg, 50. See also Petrograd

  Saint-Sauveur, comte de, 153

  Sakharov, 239, 279

  Salonica, 221, 243, 276

  Sa
lza, 85

  Samara, 203

  Sambor, 78, 79

  Samsonov, 48, 58, 62–6 passim, 68, 87, 95 n.

  ‘Samuszyn-Schlinge’, 252

  San river, 72, 78, 79, 81, 91, 95, 96, 98, 99, 108, 128–129, 138–141, 176

  Sandetski, 169

  Sannikov, 251

  Sapozhnikov, General, 151

  Saratov, 203

  Savant, 48

  Savvitch, 222

  Sazonov, 42, 195, 218

  Scheffer, 106, 107, 168

  Scheidemann, 98

  Schlieffen, A. von, 40, 41

  Schlieffen Plan, 40, 43, 44, 265

  Schneider-Creusot, 150

  Schulenburg, 172

  Schwarz, 31, 175

  Search-lights, 226

  Seeckt, 128, 135, 142, 254

  Serbia, 42, 44, 185, 190, 191;

  army, 71, 221;

  campaign, 72–6, 79, 243

  Sereth river, 190

  Sergey, Grand Duke, 152, 155 n., 161

  Sestroretski, 160

  Shakhovskoy, Prince, 162

  Shanin, Teodor, 294

  Shcherbachev, 199, 222, 224, 236, 237, 239, 246, 251, 273

  Shcherbatov, Prince, 183

  Shell: orders, 151 ff.;

  price, 124, 196–7;

  production, 151, 199 ff., 211;

  shortage, 144 ff, 165, 195, 223–4, 232;

  stocks, 132–3, 139, 140, 143, 188, 231

  Shetinin factory, 210

  Shtukaturov, 170–1

  Shuvayev, 27, 191

  Shuvalov, 106

  Siberian Corps, 104, 112, 116, 142, 177, 179, 180, 229, 257

  Siberian Division, 137, 140, 181

  Sidorin, 104

  Sidorov, 153, 209

  Siedlce, 108

  Sievers, 117, 226

  Silesia, 80, 90, 96, 101, 128

  Silistria, 276

  Simbirsk, 297

  Sirelius, 228, 229, 230

  Siret river, 281

  Skoda, 122

  Slavs, 113, 122, 125, 240, 269

  Slonim, 184, 189

  Slovenes, 243

  Slyusarenko, 106

  Smirnov, General, 112, 168, 228, 255

  Smolensk, 33

  Smorgon, 189

  Smyslovski, 161

  Socec, 280

  Soldau, 63, 64

  Solodovnikov, 197

  Somme, 131, 132, 258, 266, 267, 270

  Soós, 87

  Sopanow, 247, 151

  Sormovski factory, 162

  ‘Southern Army Group’, 277

  Soviet, 205, 215, 282–3;

  economy, 201

  Special Council, 198–9, 201, 203, 204–6, 207, 208, 284, 287

  Stalin, J., 283

  Stalinism, 284, 301

  Stamp, Sir Joseph, 290

  Stanislav, 81

  State Banks, 284, 287, 290

  State factories, 146

  State monopolies, 289

  Stavka, 27, 28, 51–4, 58, 62, 84, 85, 86, 89, 94, 95, 96, 98, 100, 101, 104, 105, 106, 111, 116, 119, 129, 130, 134, 136, 137, 138, 142, 144, 146, 148, 149, 155 n., 156, 165, 172, 175, 179, 184, 185, 186, 196, 197, 198, 217, 222, 226, 227, 232, 233, 246, 270, 271, 272, 274, 278, 279, 280, 282, 300. See also Nicholas II

  Stavropol, 293

  Stellungskrieg, 94

  Stettin, 37, 218

  Stevens Commission, 300

  Steyr, 123

  Stock Exchange, Russia, 27, 208, 284, 290

  Stogov, 34

  Stokhod river, 259, 260, 267, 271, 272, 262, 263, 266

  Stolypin, 232

  Stolzmann, 111, 242

  Straub, 74–7 passim, 128

  Strauss, 242

  Stremoukhov, 87

  Strumilin, 206

  Struve, 297

  Stryj, 79

  Strypa river, 251;

  battle, 222, 232, 233, 235, 236

  Styr river, 133, 191, 242, 250, 255, 256, 260, 261, 270

  Südarmee, 111, 113, 120, 139, 140, 141, 245, 251, 253, 154, 259, 260, 263, 266, 270, 273

  Sukhodoly, 90

  Sukhomlinov, 24 ff., 28–31, 32–5 passim, 51, 52, 58, 95 n., 148, 149, 161, 174, 175, 194–7 passim, 201, 226, 233;

  fall of, 198

  Sukhomlinovshchina, 192, 225

  Sukhomlinovtsy, 27, 28, 195 n.;

  Sukhomlinovites, 85

  Surén, 183

  Sventsiany, General, 188, 189, 192, 227

  Sventsiany– Vilna, 244

  Sveshnikov, 175

  Svir, 189

  Sweden, 159 n.

  Szawli, 172

  Szúrmay, 250, 259

  Tanks, 236

  Tannenberg, battle, 44, 58, 59, 62, 68;

  assessed, 66–7

  Tarachkov, 131

  Tarnopol, 183, 247

  Tatars, 252

  Taxation, 289–90

  Technology, army, 19, 28, 50–1, 233

  Tereshchenko, 199

  Territorials, 214 n., 216

  Tersztyánszki, 114, 259

  Teschen, 113, 120, 128, 242

  Theakston, 201

  Thiepval, 133

  Thorn (fortress), 54, 100

  Tiflis, 198

  Tirpitz, 39

  Tisza, Count, 76, 124, 139, 243

  Tolstoy, Count, 22

  Toruń, 101, 133

  Trans-Siberian railway, 157, 158, 293

  Transylvania, 140, 276, 277

  Trawniki, 33, 177

  Trench-systems, 92, 108, 117, 135, 177, 179, 223, 237, 238, 241

  Tretyakov, 199

  Trieste, 37, 129, 218

  Troops: condition of, 90, 113–14, 120–21, 155 ff., 170–1, 176, 182 ff., 225, 229–30, 260, 262, 280;

  disintegration of, 300–1;

  sickness, 82, 190–1;

  wounded, 101, 169

  Trotski, 233

  Trubetskoy, 184

  Trysten, 262

  Tsarevich, 233

  Tsaritsyn, 151, 152

  Tsarist régime, 17, 21–2, 27, 36, 144, 194, 208, 218, 233, 284, 289, 290, 294

  Tsurikov, 28

  Tsushima, Straits of, naval battle, 17

  Tukkum, 281

  Tula, 285, 293;

  factory, 146, 160, 162

  Turkestan, 20, 288

  Turkestan Corps, 257

  Turkestan Rifle Brigade, 225

  Turkey, 23, 109, 120, 125, 127, 185, 218, 280;

  railways, 265;

  troops, 260, 263, 276

  Turnu Rosu pass, 278

  Turya river, 247

  Tutracǎia, 276

  Tyulin, 188, 189

  U-Boats, 267–8

  Ukraine, 140

  Uleaborg, 159 n.

  United States of America, 159, 204, 208;

  printing Russian money, 288 n.;

  trade with Russia, 150, 209, 299;

  wargoods, 151–6, 161

  Universities, 187, 217

  Upart, 148, 223, 231

  Urals, 197 n., 205

  Urziceni, 280

  Ushakov, 28

  Uzsok Pass, 113

  Vankov, General, 162, 163, 197, 202, 203, 211

  Vannovski, 22

  Varun-Sekret, 196

  Vasiliev, 106

  Vaux, 31

  Velichko, 233

  Verdun, 31, 93, 131, 227, 232, 244, 245, 258, 266

  Vernander, 27

  Vickers, 150, 151–2, 155

  Vienna, 71, 75, 78, 125, 128, 242, 269

  Viennese Rifle Division, 259

  Vilna, 133, 147, 187–90 passim, 228, 260

  Vistula river, 30, 31, 33, 41, 42, 61, 62, 90, 95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 104, 107, 108, 112, 148, 174, 181, 182

  Vladimir Volynski, 135, 255, 256

  Vladivostok, 157

  Volhynia, 34, 190, 221, 247, 251, 258, 259, 266, 282

  Vologda, 157

  Vorobiev, 209

  Vosges, 245

  Voyeykov, 26, 225

  Voyshin-Murdas-Zhilinski, 85

 
; Vtorov, 211

  Vvedenski, 201

  Vyatka, 203

  Vyazma, 33

  Vyshneradski, 162, 196, 199, 208

  Wages and prices, 195, 197 n., 199, 205 ff., 219, 288–9, 297

  Wallachia, 274, 277, 278, 279

  Waplitz, 64

  War Council, 149, 160

  War-aims, 219–20

  War-industries committees, 156, 201 ff.

  War-loans 290–1

  Warsaw, 32, 34, 54, 63, 67, 84, 96, 98, 99, 101, 175, 179, 183;

  entered by Germans, 191;

  Military District, 49, 94

  Watter, 182

  Wereszyca river, 89, 90, 142

  Western Powers, 127, 131, 147, 185, 221, 246, 264, 276, 282

  Westinghouse, 152

  White Army, 28

  White Sea, 158, 159 n.

  Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 76, 90, 139, 185, 242, 268, 269

  Willenberg, 64, 65, 66

  Winchester rifles, 152

  Windischgrätz, 120

  Wireless, 51, 101

  Wisloka, river, 137, 138

  Wogau, 205

  Wolf-Schneider-Arno, O., 100 n,

  Women and children, 162, 183

  Woyrsch, 184, 188, 245

  Wroclawek, 105, 168

  Wyldbore-Smith, 155

  Yanushkevitch, 26, 48, 52, 54, 84, 85, 136, 171, 175, 185, 187

  Yekaterinoslav, 203

  Yengalychev, Prince, 175, 192

  Yepanchin, 117, 118, 168

  Yermolov, 156

  Yusupovs, 292

  Zareb, 127

  Zakutovski, 229, 230

  Zamość, battle, 86, 87

  Zasanie barracks, 53

  Zayonchkovski, 235, 274, 276, 277, 278

  Zemgor, 156, 169, 195, 199, 201, 203, 204, 211

  Zhilinski, 26, 48, 51, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 66, 67, 95, 212, 221, 227, 231, 232

  Zhmerinka, 82

  Zimnicea, 277

  Zlota Lipa river, 88, 263

  Zuyev, 28

  * Reichskriegsministerium: Sanitätsbericht über das Deutsche Heer im Weltkrieg vol. 2 (Berlin 1935) p. 2 and ‘Tafel’ 5.

  * To start with, the atmosphere was quite different. As in all European armies, it was one of uplift. Officers in Stavka did without drink; women were forbidden in the staff compound; religious services were held every day. In the same style, Conrad von Hötzendorf, on the Austro-Hungarian side, slept on straw in the Zasanie barracks in Przemysl; Hindenburg, on the German side, promised to write to his wife every day—all of it no doubt evidence as to how widespread was the supposition that this would be a short war. The strain of lengthening war soon told, however. By the end of 1914, wine was being served to Stavka, and vodka to senior officers. The Grand Duke told Stavka’s chaplain to have the choir sing pieces from Prince Igor instead of Masses. What happened as regards women is not documented. Hindenburg managed to write about 1,500 letters to his wife in the war. The Austrians solved their problem by moving to comfortable villas in Moravia, and having their wives live there—although that was not enough for Conrad, who continued to write long, though not daily letters to other men’s wives.14

  * Zhilinski blamed Rennenkampf for not helping Samsonov, and then for running away during the battle of the Masurian Lakes. Rumours were also put about that Rennenkampf had been profiteering in matters of army supply, and a commission was set up to examine them. Rennenkampf mobilised the cavalry mafia in his defence, sent coded telegrams to friends at court (Orlov) and Zhilinski then found that he was being blamed for what had happened. The Grand Duke sent a telegram to the Tsar, saying that Zhilinski had panicked. Zhilinski was thereupon dismissed, Rennenkampf confirmed in office. But the Sukhomlinov system saved Zhilinski, who re-appeared—to the Allies considerable bewilderment—as Russian representative at Chantilly.

 

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