Imperial Russian field artillery in combat training in the snow at Camp B.K.
Reverse:Russian artillery on combat training at camp B.K. (Translation courtesy Thomas Faust, eBay's Urfaust.
"This Oath of Allegiance has been sent to the armies along the Galician Front. We were told that the soldiers were assembled into groups and, after hearing the text, the men repeated it word for word, holding up their arm the while. Russians, Jews, Moslems, all pledged their loyalty to the Provisional Government; then they cried a loud 'Ura'. A new era has begun for them. In the background, there is still a WAR to be waged, and a formidable foe is still lurking in the vanquished territory of their own land."
Florence Farmborough, an English nurse serving with the Russian Red Cross, writing about the Oath of Allegiance to the Provisional Government of Russia, ratified by its Council of Ministers on March 20 (March 7 Old Style), 1917. What Farmborough refers to as 'another interesting document [that] has been sent to me' was entitled, 'Text of Oath for Orthodox and Catholics.' The oath was signed by Prince Lvov, head of the Provisional Government formed in the first days of the Russian Revolution. Galicia was the northeastern region of Austria-Hungary, and a major battleground between Russia and Austria-Hungary.
Nurse at the Russian Front, a Diary 1914-18 by Florence Farmborough, page 261, copyright © 1974 by Florence Farmborough, publisher: Constable and Company Limited, publication date: 1974
1917-03-20, 1917, March, Russian Revolution, Provisional Government, Russian field artillery
