The Attitude towards Life and Death of the Participants in the First World War: Frontline Routine Sketch

The article discloses the major aspect of frontline routine – war as danger , seamless procession of boundary conditions . Basing on archive data and private sources of Russian participants in the First World War, it touches upon such subjects as combatants’ psychological factors, their attitude towards life and death, soldiers’ fatalism, ways to overcome fear in action, specific character of combat situation perception by enlisted and commanders of the Russian Army, representatives of different service arms, the masses moral preparation for war according to contemporaries’ estimates. The article also considers the sounds of war and their impact on frontline soldiers’ minds.