The Journal of Military History

Abstract

In March 1915, an electrician sought the help of Russia’s most popular newspaper in an attempt to provide the Russian military with blueprints for his invention: an unmanned aerial reconnaissance and bombing craft. His letter to the staff of the paper recounts the all-too-usual and unfortunate obstacles posed by the bureaucracy of the Russian imperial state.

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Edward Berezin, “Extract of a Letter to the Editorial Office of the Newspaper Russkoye Slovo,” The Journal of Military History 87, no. 4 (October 2023): 1090–1093.

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