World history: The exhibition of archival photographs of the First World War is opened in Veliky Novgorod

November 27, 2015 in the conference hall of the Museum of Fine Arts (Veliky Novgorod) was opened an exhibition of "The Great War without retouching. Photos from the archives of the military 22nd Infantry Division of the First World War of 1914-1918". 

The exhibition features more than 50 photographs, reflected all sides of the war: the battle scenes, the front-line life, a place of bloody battles, destroyed cities and villages, disaster civilians. The exhibition will be open until 14 December. 

History of the 22nd Infantry Division was inextricably linked to the Novgorod province. By the beginning of the First World War, it lodged in the territory of the province of exactly half a century – since 1864.

Fighting way of the division during the First World War was marked by the participation in major battles: in 1914 it took part in the East Prussian, the Warsaw-Ivangorod and the Battle of Łódź, in 1915 - in the fighting on the territory of Poland and Belarus, in 1916 - in the Naroch offensive and the offensive of the Southwestern Front. In 1917 the division held in Romanian and Northern fronts. In 1918 it returned to the shelves of their pre-war places of dislocation and was disbanded.

Fighting way of the division in the photographs of front Album staff officer of the 22nd Infantry Division V. A. Agte commander of the 3rd Battalion, 85th Infantry Regiment of Vyborg V. E. Arends, head of machine-gun team of the 87th Infantry of Neyshlotsky Regiment S. N. Tsvetaev, and the images captured by a team of scouts served 85th Infantry Regiment in Vyborg R. Y. Solovyov. The originals of the exhibited photos are stored in the collections of the Grodno State History and Archeology Museum (Grodno, Belarus) and the Udomelsky Regional History Museum, as well as in the family archives of V. S. Agte (Ufa) and V. B. Tsvetaeva (Vladimir, copies provided by the State Vladimir-Suzdal Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve).