Impressive and almost unknown memorials to the fallen German soldiers documented by photographer Vladimir Pomortzeff.

Abandoned mass graves of the people executed during the Bolshevik political repressions near Saint Petersburg.

The area of heavy fighting during the First World War has turned into a stunning museum through the efforts of enthusiasts.

Probably the oddest and most obscure of Easter customs has survived only in few villages in the east of the Czech Republic.

Infant and child mortality in Italy during the First World War exceeded even the casualties of the Italian Army at the front lines.

One of the biggest and hardest Russian mass pilgrimages holds annually in Vyatka Region, some 900 km to the east from Moscow.

One hundred years ago the First World War began. The largest Austrian POW Camps were located in the present day Czech Republic.