The Historic:

In the Museum of Modern History in Moscow hangs a poster-agit "Why Russia enters the war" for 1914, at the price of 20 cops. for the people.
It sets out a map of the future of Europe, which each country will receive. Switzerland had to get several border alpine regions of Austria and Germany, so that the gentlemen going to their favorite resorts did not get to ordinary, affordable countries, but to a more prestigious Switzerland.
10 million died. of man.

In fact, Russia entered the First World War because on 1 August 1914 Germany declared war on Russia. Russia refused to fulfill the conditions of the German ultimatum on the abolition of the general military mobilization. A general mobilization was introduced in Russia in response to the fact that on 28 July 1914 Austria-Hungary, under pressure from Germany, declared war on Russia's ally Serbia.