Quotes: World War 1

Question 1

What was Kadet Pavel Miliukov’s famous speech?

Answer 1

‘Is it stupidity? Or is it treason?’ - 14 November, 1916

Question 2

What did Brusilov say about the Russian army?

Answer 2

Draftees were ‘disgustingly untrained’, and that the army was ‘more like an ill-trained militia’ - Brusilov

Question 3

What did Nikolai say about restrictions on artillery shell discharge?

Answer 3

‘Expenditure of shell has reached unheard-of porportions’

Question 4

What did General Brusilov have to say about Nicholas when he appointed himself as commander-in-chief?

Answer 4

‘Faced with a group of soldiers, he was nervous and did not know what to say’

Question 5

What did the French Ambassador say about Russia?

Answer 5

‘I am obliged to report that, at the present current moment, the Russian Empire is run by lunatics’ - French Ambassador to Russia (Maurice Paleologue)

Question 6

What did Nikolai say about the lack of rifles?

Answer 6

‘I have no rifles, no shells, no boots!’ - Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich

Question 7

What did General Brusilov say about the human cost of the war?

Answer 7

‘In a year of war the regular army had vanished. It was replaced by an army of ignoramuses’ - General Aleksei Brusilov

Question 8

What did Nikolai say in August 1915?

Answer 8

‘It is now a reign of chaos’

Question 9

What did a war commander say about the lack of equipment?

Answer 9

‘We have no guns. Misfortune, calamity, I’ll be blunt - it’s a tragedy’