Memory of Russia: Exhibition in Moscow focuses on the history of Russian Expeditionary Force in France

The exhibition “Soldiers of Russia. Russian Expeditionary Force in France in 1916-1918” has been launched at the State Historical Museum in Moscow.

The Russian Expeditionary Force is a generalized name given to four special infantry brigades who in 1916 were sent by the government of Russia to France to fight in the Western and Salonika fronts.

Unique photographs taken between 1916-1918, displayed within the framework of the exhibition, have been made from negatives stored in archives of the Ministry of Defense of France. The World War I Museum in Meaux jointly with the State Historical Museum has put on show examples of uniforms and weapons, maps, decorations and household articles from their collections. Of a special interest at the exhibition is a memorial complex from the family archive of Marshal of the Soviet Union, Minister of Defense R. Ya. Malinovsky, whose name is inseparable from the history of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France and the Russian Legion of Honor.