Germany–Russia relations display cyclical patterns, moving back and forth from cooperation and alliance to strain and to total warfare. Historian John Wheeler-Bennett says that since the 1740s:
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier during conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, 25 October 2017
Prince Alexander Nevsky defeats the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of the Ice in 1242 (20th century work).
Monument to Baltic German military engineer Eduard Totleben in Sevastopol, Crimea
Johann Peter Krafft.The Declaration of Victory After the Battle of Leipzig by Frederick III of Prussia, Alexander I of Russia and Francis I of Austria after the Battle of Leipzig, 1813
German–Soviet relations date to the aftermath of the First World War. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, dictated by Germany ended hostilities between Russia and Germany; it was signed on March 3, 1918. A f
Germany–Russia relations
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German and Bolshevik troops fraternizing in the area of the Yaselda River, February 1918
Treaty of Rapallo, Joseph Wirth with Leonid Krasin, Georgy Chicherin and Adolf Joffe, 1922
Cheka Trial in Leipzig, 1925
Georgy Chicherin and Nikolai Krestinsky in Berlin, 1925