Musino's cavalry charge. Author P. Krivogonov.
 Idyllic Russian representation of Musino's cavalry charge. The German soldier is a mere artistic license.
 On November 17,1941, during the Battle of Moscow, the 44th Mongolian Cavalry Division charged against German lines near Musino, west of the capital. Soviet horsemen were massacred by German artillery and then by machine guns. The charge was a failure, two full regiments of the 44th Mongolian Cavalry Division, about 2000 men and their saddles, sacrificed themselves without effecting a single casualty to the German army.
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Charge...

Soviet soldiers fire 120-mm mortars at German positions

Heavy mortar fire

Red Army soldiers hold on to each other because of the risk of  falling into a deep pit as they wade across the Sivash, a large system of shallow lagoons in the Crimean peninsula, near the Sea of Azov; November 1943.  