Help our glorious troops by subscribing to a war loan paying 5 1/2%. Imperial Russian Soldiers in a snow-covered trench, rifles at the ready. War Bond Postcard dated October 15, 1916.
Всто должны помогать нашимъ славнымъ войскам и кто можетъ долженъ подписатьсяна 5 1/2%ВОЕННЫЙ ЗАЕМЬ.ESPO should help our glorious troops, and those who can should subscribe5 1/2%War Loan.Reverse:ОТКРЫТОЕ ПИСЬМОOpen Letter15-X-1916October 15, 1916
"As time goes on, rumours of disorder become more persistent. Sabotage has become the order of the day. Railroads are damaged; industrial plants destroyed; large factories and mills burnt down; workshops and laboratories looted. Now, rancour is turning towards the military chiefs. Why are the armies at a standstill? Why are the soldiers allowed to rot in the snow-filled trenches? Why continue the stalemate war? 'Bring the men home!' 'Conclude peace!' 'Finish this interminable war once and for all!' Cries such as these penetrate to the cold and hungry soldiers in their bleak earthworks, and begin to echo among them."
Undated excerpt from the diary of Florence Farmborough, an English nurse serving with the Russian Red Cross, writing around early February (mid- to late-January Old Style), 1917. She had been taken very ill in September, 1916, and was only recently back near the front. The winter of 1916–17 was bitterly cold, affecting the Russian transport system and its supplies to the front and the cities. Hunger preyed on the soldiers and citizens in Moscow and Petrograd.
Nurse at the Russian Front, a Diary 1914-18 by Florence Farmborough, page 254, copyright © 1974 by Florence Farmborough, publisher: Constable and Company Limited, publication date: 1974
1917-02-09, 1917, February, Russia, sabotage
