About the book: year / “Monuments of Historical Literature” - a new series of e-books from Strelbitsky Multimedia Publishing House. This series includes works of various genres: historical novels and stories, scientific works on history, popular science essays and essays, chronicles, biographies, memoirs, and even works by Russian tsars. What they have in common is that almost every book has become a milestone, an event, or an integral part of history itself. This is a series for those who are inclined not to rewrite history, but to comprehend it, using primary sources without cuts or interpretations. The fundamental work of the military historian and publicist A. A. Kersnovsky (1907–1944) is devoted to the history of Russian troops of the 18th-20th centuries. The work was written over 5 years, from 1933 to 1938, and consists of 4 parts. The third volume describes the period 1881–1915. The writer analyzes the significance of the Russian army in the First World War, the events that preceded it in the Japanese, English and Balkan directions.