DEPICTION IN THE PRESS OF THE EXPLOITS RUSSIAN MILITARY PRIESTS AT THE INITIAL STAGE OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (on the materials of the newspaper "Birzhevye Vedomosti")

Abstract

any war involves not only soldiers and officers, but also an impressive number of people whose activities are not directly related to the fulfillment of combat tasks, but without whom it is impossible to successfully conduct the war. A significant place among the civilian people on the fronts of the First World War was occupied by repre-sentatives of the clergy. Their activities were not given due attention in the history of the First World War, although they, along with soldiers and officers, shared all the hard-ships of wartime, as evidenced by the publications of the periodical press of the time.