WORLD WAR Austria - Russia; two deserters of the Austro-German talks with a Russian soldier. Towards the end of the First World War (1918) about 900 military "unredeemed" (Italian ethnicity but enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as their territory was occupied by the Austrians) fled while fighting in Russia for a homeland that no considered their. These soldiers who felt Italian; reached the Italian Concession in Tsien tsin; classified in the "Legion Redeemed of Siberia" were united to Alpine from Italy to form the Italian Expeditionary Corps in the Far East. Photography; Russia; September 1915