One of the main monuments to the victory over Napoleon was the famous Gallery of Heroes of the Patriotic War of 1812. After our defeat in the First World War and the fall of the Russian Empire, not only the faces, but even the names of the majority of Russian military leaders were consigned to oblivion. But it is not their fault that the heroic efforts of our army were not crowned with the greatest triumph of Russian weapons. Russia was not defeated on the battlefield, but defeated by a treacherous stab in the back - without the revolution, the summer of 1917 should have been victorious. This book is a gallery of heroes of the First World War, which contemporaries also considered Patriotic War, an analysis of the military art of the best military leaders of the Russian army, from generals Brusilov and Alekseev to Kornilov, Yudenich, Essen and Kolchak.