On August 1, the Day of Remembrance of Russian soldiers who died in World War I, representatives of the Russian House in Berlin laid flowers at the monument to the “Faithful Sons of Great Russia”.
The oldest memorial in Germany to the soldiers of the Imperial Army is located in the Russian Orthodox Cemetery in Berlin’s Tegel district. Russian Russian Military Union opened it in 1934 on the initiative of the Russian All-Military Union on voluntary donations of Russian emigration in Germany. Many generals and officers, as well as ordinary soldiers, are buried here.
Pavel Izvolsky, director of the Russian House in Berlin, said: “The heroes of the First World War should not be forgotten, especially those who rest far from Russia. Their tragedy is not only that the revolution and the civil war practically erased their names and exploits from history, but also that as a result of these shocks they lost their homeland, were forced to live and die in a foreign land.”