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RUSSIAN-JAPANESE WAR 1904-1905 PHOTO GALLERY
PART I

by Victor Karl Bulla

Machine Gunners from the Detachment under General Mishchenko

Machine Gunners from the Detachment under General Mishchenko

Victor Karl Bulla

Military correspondent-photographer V.K.Bulla on June 14, 1904 during the battle of the Dalin Pass, June 3-4, 1904.

Military correspondent-photographer V.K.Bulla on June 14, 1904 during the battle of the Dalin Pass, June 3-4, 1904.

Victor Bulla, son of the famous official photographer of the Russian Tsar Court Karl Bulla, was born in 1883, graduated from the exclusive private "English School" in St. Petersburg in 1899 and received extensive photographic training in Germany. After his return to Russia, Victor and his brother Alexander joined Karl's family's photographic agency, which held exclusive rights to produce official photographs of the Tsar's Court, government and military activities.

Victor received independent recognition as a photographic reporter during the Russian-Japanese war 1904-05, when, as the 19-years old ensign, he became military photographer with the Siberian Reserve Brigade. He participated in the battle of the Dalin Pass and Mukden, actions at Erdagou, Zunio, Sandepu, Lanafan, Putilov Hill, in General Mishchenko’s raid and other key events of the war. Victor's front-line reports were extensively published in the most popular illustrated magazines "Niva" (The Field), "Iskry" (Sparks) and major Russian newspapers and reprinted all over the world. Victor frequently took the duties of the medical assistant on the battlefield, and for his actions was later awarded by Silver Medal "For Courage" on the St. George's ribbon.

Later Bulla produced extensive photo galleries of the First World War, Russian Revolution, and Civil War, becoming in effect the official photographer of the early Soviet Government.

Together with his brother Alexander he participated in various photographic exhibitions, but with his Catholic and Estonian heritage. émigré father and close connections with prominent political figures of the ancien régime, he became more and more considered as undesirable and by 1935 was forced to transfer the most part of the family's photographic archives (more than 132 500 negatives, with later additions 200 000 in total) to the government archives.

However this surrender of the Bulla's family priceless photographic treasures didn't help him to evade repressions of the 1930s. Victor Bulla was arrested on June 23 1938 on false accusations, made to confess in espionage against USSR under torture and was shot in October 1938. His name was erased from all official sources and his pictures of Revolution and Soviet leaders Lenin, Zinovyev, Kamenev, Stalin, and others, were continued to be published without any reference to his name up to Gorbachev's Perestroika in the second half of 1980s.

1. 2nd Siberian Medical Train of Grand Duchess Maria

Surgery on the train

Medical Detachment of the Grand Duke Boris

Medical evacuation of the wounded

Evacuation of the wounded Japanese soldiers by Manteifel medical detachment from Huanshan village

2. Artillery Duel near Zunio, September 24-27, 1904.

Artillery duel near Zunio, September 24-27, 1904. (Click on the image to enlarge)

Artillery duel near Zunio, September 26-28, 1904. (Click on the image to enlarge)

Artillery position on Putilov Hill. (Click on the image to enlarge)

3. Wireless Transmitter Station, providing radio communications between Supreme Commander HQ and HQ of the 1st Manchurian Army

Wireless transmission station, providing radio communications between Supreme Commander HQ and HQ of the 1st Manchurian Army

4. Fight for the Dalin Pass on June 14 1904. 1st Battery of the 6th East Siberian Artillery Brigade at 6 am June 14, 1904

Fight for the Dalin Pass on June 14 1904. 1st Battery of the 6th East Siberian Artillery Brigade at 6 am June 14, 1904

Fight for the Dalin Pass on June 14 1904. 1st Battery of the 6th East Siberian Artillery Brigade at 6 am June 14, 1904 (Click to enlarge)

Fight for the Dalin Pass on June 14 1904. 1st Battery of the 6th East Siberian Artillery Brigade at 6 am June 14, 1904

5. Battle of Mukden

First aid to the wounded

Wounded General Mishchenko

Forward medical treatment center near Imperial Graves, "Holy Woods" area.

Medical evacuation of the wounded from the front lines

Near mass grave

6. Medical Train of Her Imperial Highness

Medical Train of Her Imperial Highness

7. Before Attack on Sandepu

8-inches mortar battery in 900 meters before the enemy positions at Sandepu

55th Podolsk Infantry Regiment before attack on Sandepu. Banner March

55th Podolsk Infantry Regiment Before attack on Sandepu. Kissing of the Cross

8. Mountain Reconnaissance Detachment under von Ekke

1st Hundred of the 2nd Verchne-Udinsk regiment of the Baikal Cossacks

Reconnaissance on 3-4 June 1904

9. Providing Treatment for the Wounded

Medical doctors and students after providing treatment for the wounded

Mobile medical detachment under Doctor K.Grevs

Treatment of the heavily wounded Japanese soldier

10. Reinforced reconnaissance on July 3-4 1904 by Count Trubetskoy detachment near Lanafan Village

Reinforced reconnaissance on July 3-4 1904 by Count Trubetskoy detachment near Lanafan Village

11. Sport Games in 4th Pioneer Battalion After Consecration of the New Battalion Banner

Sport Games in 4th Pioneer Battalion After Consecration of the New Banner

12. Captured Chinese and Japanese Spies

Captured Chinese Spies

Japanese spy, disguise as Chinese

Requiem for the soldiers, killed on June 14 1904 on the battle of Dalin Pass.

Chinese carry wounded

13. Horse Machine-Guns Squadron. Shooting Range Training in Hersu, 1905.

Horse Machine-Guns Squadron. Shooting Range Training in Hersu, 1905.

Getting familiar with a new howitzer

14. Mobile Medical Detachment under Schtalmeister Rodzyanko in Mukden

Mobile Medical Detachment under Schtalmeister Rodzyanko in Mukden

15. Maneuvers on June 7-9 1905 of the 1st Army Corps and 4th Siberian Corps

Maneuvers on June 7-9 1905 of the 1st Army Corps and 4th Siberian Corps (Click to enlarge)

16. On the Dalin Pass June 14 1904

Troops movement

Staff of the 2nd Siberian infantry Division

Manning military phone line

Triage and first aid medical station

17. On the Lake Baikal, April 1904

On the Lake Baikal, April 1904 (Click to enlarge)

On the Lake Baikal, April 1904

18. Troops Departure from Irkutsk to Manchu on the Military Train

Troops Departure from Irkutsk to Manchu on the Military Train

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Victor Karl Bulla
1. 2nd Medical Train of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna
2. Artillery Duel near Zunio
3. Wireless Transmitter Station
4. Fight for the Dalin Pass on June 14 1904
5. Battle of Mukden
6. Medical Train of Her Imperial Highness
7. Before Attack on Sandepu
8. Mountain Reconnaissance Detachment under von Ekke
9. Providing Treatment for the Wounded
10. Reinforced reconnaissance on July 3-4 1904
11. Sport Games in 4th Pioneer Battalion
12. Captured Chinese and Japanese Spies
13. Horse Machine-Guns Squadron. Shooting Range Training in Hersu, 1905
14. Mobile Medical detachment under shtalmeister Rodzianko in Mukden
15. Maneuvers on June 7-9 1905
16. On the Dalin Pass
17. On the Lake Baikal 1904-1905
18. Troops Departure from Irkutsk to Manchu on the Military Train