page_title: Russian Winter
hierarchical_section_title: Russian Winter
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration of "General Winter" on the Eastern Front of World War I.
context_page_description: Russian Winter, sometimes personified as "General Winter", is an aspect of the climate of Russia that has contributed to military failures of several invasions of Russia. Mud is a related contributing factor that impairs military maneuvering in Russia and elsewhere, and is sometimes personified as "General Mud". Russians call those muddy conditions, rasputitsa, which occur with autumnal rains and spring thaws in Russia and make transport over unimproved roads difficult.
context_section_description: Russian Winter,  sometimes personified as "General Winter", is an aspect of the climate of Russia that has contributed to military failures of several invasions of Russia. Mud is a related contributing factor that impairs military maneuvering in Russia and elsewhere, and is sometimes personified as "General Mud". Russians call those muddy conditions, rasputitsa, which occur with autumnal rains and spring thaws in Russia and make transport over unimproved roads difficult.
caption: "General Winter", from a 1916 front page illustration of the French periodical Le Petit Journal
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