To the issue of the First World War

The author referred to the issue of “forgotten” war in the proposed article, reflects little-known facts from the daily life of the Kuban Cossacks, who took a direct part in the fighting, their Patriotic sentiments, fidelity to the monarch. Author shows the reverent attitude of Cossacks to St. George's award, the deepest sense of duty to the Homeland, high moral qualities, change of optimistic moods in the Cossack formations by disappointment with policy of Nicholas II, and also strengthening of oppositional moods, deterioration of a social and economic situation, confrontation between supporters and opponents of the new power. The researcher notes that honor and dignity in the Cossack formations were developed by a set of living conditions and historical events, and the war and requisitions undermined the economic condition and led to riots in the Cossack villages. Examines the influence of Bolshevik propagandists on the army and civilians, the formation of a negative attitude to the Cossacks, who did not support the Soviet government, from various social strata, the commitment of most of the Cossacks to the old order at a time when the revolutionary was “put at the forefront”. It concerns the human losses of the Kuban Cossacks during the First World War, the difficult way of turning millions of Russians into an antisocial mass on the eve of the October revolution of 1917.