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Eleven soldiers outside of a building. In background, sign that says:
Written on back “4.3 – 15.4.1? Brest-Litvosk IR473”
If the last digit of the date is an '8', this picture would have been taken in Brest-Litovsk when a treaty was signed between Russia and the Central Powers, which included Germany.
The officers and soldiers of this regiment came from the Saxony area of Germany.
Glue remnants on back where placed in album.
11 x 8 cm
(Red text is an electronic watermark that is not physically part of the photo for sale)
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. The treaty was signed at Brest-Litovsk (Polish: Brześć Litewski; since 1945 Brest), after two months of negotiations. The treaty was agreed upon by the Bolshevik government to stop further advances by German and Austro-Hungarian forces. According to the treaty, Soviet Russia defaulted on all of Imperial Russia's commitments to the Triple Entente alliance.
In the treaty, Bolshevik Russia ceded the Baltic States to Germany; they were meant to become German vassal states under German princelings. Russia also ceded its province of Kars Oblast in the South Caucasus to the Ottoman Empire and recognized the independence of Ukraine. According to Spencer Tucker, a historian of World War I, "The German General Staff had formulated extraordinarily harsh terms that shocked even the German negotiator." Congress Poland was not mentioned in the treaty, as Germans refused to recognize the existence of any Polish representatives, which in turn led to Polish protests.
The treaty was effectively terminated in November 1918, when Germany surrendered to the Allies.
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