The Battalions of Death, also called shock battalions, were infantry shock troops established by the Russian Imperial Army during World War I.
Shock troops of the Russian Eighth Army. They later formed the Kornilov Shock Regiment.
The death battalion of the 3rd Caucasus Army Corps.
Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov was a Russian military intelligence officer, explorer, and general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. He served as Supreme Commander of the Russian Army and as
Photograph, circa 1908
Kornilov and Deputy War Minister Boris Savinkov in Moscow on 25 August [O.S. 12 August] 1917
Kornilov Shock Detachment flag bearer, 1917