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The Corps of Romanian volunteers from Transylvania and Bukovina- Romanian prisoners from Russia, enlisted in the Romanian army
Romanians in the Austro-Hungarian Empire fought in the First World War since the beginning of the conflict. On the Galician Front, and later on the Italian Front, many Romanians were taken prisoners or deserted and were taken to war camps in Russia, Italy or France....
The British and the Northern Russia Expedition
The civil war broke out in Russia shortly before the assassination of the Romanov family. However, it only escalated after the October Revolution with the Whites challenging the Bolshevik seizure of power. It also saw the involvement of foreign British, French,...
The arrest of Constantin Diamandy, Romania’s plenipotentiary minister in Petrograd, on Lenin’s order
On the evening of December 31, 1917 (January 13, 1918, new style), the plenipotentiary minister of Romania in Petrograd, Constantin Diamandy, and the staff of the Royal Legation of Romania were arrested by the Bolsheviks, under Lenin’s order, and taken to the St....
The unification of Bessarabia with Romania, an accomplishment made in the most difficult moment in the history of the Romanian state
In the first two months of 1918, Romania and Bessarabia were subjected to great external pressures. Following the resignation of Prime Minister Ion I.C. Brătianu, General Alexandru Averescu was entrusted by King Ferdinand with the formation of a new Government on...